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circumstances outlined in section 9.
      Under an acute support package, assistance or benefits may be provided in the circumstances outlined in section 10. Additional counselling (section 11) and additional assistance or benefits in relation to children attending, or not yet attending, primary school may also be provided to certain persons (section 12).

6 Definitions
       (1) In this instrument:
Act means the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004.
acute support package: see subsection 7(1).
support plan: see section 8.
       (2) In this instrument, a reference to a child of a member, former member or deceased member, includes a reference to:
(a) a stepchild of the member, former member or deceased member; and
(b) a person in respect of whom the member or former member stands, or the deceased member stood, in the position of a parent.

Part 2 Commission may grant acute support package

Division 1 Eligibility for acute support package

7 Commission may grant acute support package
       (1) The Commission may decide to grant a package (an acute support package) of assistance or benefits to a person if:
(a) subsection (2), (3), (4), (5) or (6) applies to the person at the time the person's eligibility for an acute support package is determined; and
(b) if the person has previously been granted an acute support package—either:
 (i) the period during which assistance or benefits for that acute support package may be provided has ended by operation of subsection 10(2); or
 (ii) the support plan has been revoked; and
(c) the Commission is satisfied that it is appropriate to grant an acute support package to the person to assist the person to adjust to new and challenging life circumstances.

Members or former members
       (2) This subsection applies to a person if the following criteria are satisfied:
(a) the person is a member or former member;
(b) the person is under 65 years of age;
(c) the person is receiving, or is eligible to receive, compensation for incapacity under Part 3 or 4 of Chapter 4 of the Act or a Special Rate Disability Pension;
(d) the Commission is satisfied that the person, or a related person of the person, is experiencing, or is at risk of experiencing, crisis.

Wholly dependent partners
       (3) This subsection applies to a person if the following criteria are satisfied:
(a) the person is a wholly dependent partner of a deceased member;
(b) the person is under 65 years of age;
(c) the deceased member's death occurred no more than 2 years ago;
(d) either:
 (i) the deceased member's death was related to service rendered by the member; or
 (ii) the Commission is satisfied that the deceased member's death was a suicide related to service rendered by