Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2016C00143:schedule:2:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2016C00143
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 2 (pt 1/3)
Character Range: 177346–181150

Schedule 2—Attendant allowance
Section 21

Column 1                                                                                                             Column 2

                                                                                                                     Rate per fortnight
                                                                                                                     of Attendant
Description of disability                                                                                            allowance
                                                                                                                     $
1.  Blinded in both eyes                                                                                             53.80
  2.  Blinded in both eyes together with total loss of speech or total deafness                                      107.60
3.  Both arms amputated                                                                                              107.60
4.  Both legs amputated and one arm amputated                                                                        53.80
  5.  Both legs amputated at the hip or one leg amputated at the hip and the other leg amputated in the upper third  53.80

Schedules 3 and 4:
Repeal the Schedules.

Social Security Act 1947

Subsection 6(1) (definition of income):
 (a) Omit paragraph (q), substitute the following paragraph:
  "(q) a service pension, a wife's service pension or a carer's service pension under Part III of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986;".
 (b) Omit from subparagraph (r)(ii) "member of the Forces" (wherever occurring), substitute "veteran".
 (c) Omit from paragraph (s) "member of the Forces", substitute "veteran".
 (d) Omit from paragraph (s) "member" (second occurring), substitute "veteran".

Subsection 6(1) (definition of member of the Forces):
Omit the definition.

Subsection 6(1) (definition of prescribed pension):
Omit paragraph (e), substitute the following paragraph:
 (e) a service pension, a wife's service pension or a carer's service pension under Part III of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986; or

After the definition of unmarried person in subsection 6(1):
Insert the following definition:
veteran means a person who is a veteran for the purposes of any of the provisions of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986.

Subparagraph 6AC(10)(b)(i):
Omit "a service pension under the Repatriation Act 1920", substitute "a service pension, a wife's service pension or a carer's service pension under Part III of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986".

Subparagraph 6AC(10)(b(iii):
Omit "section 123AB of the Repatriation Act 1920", substitute "section 82 of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986".

Subparagraph 6AC(11)(b)(i):
Omit "a service pension under the Repatriation Act 1920", substitute "a service pension, a wife's service pension or a carer's service pension under Part III of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986".

Subparagraph 6AC(11)(b)(iii):
Omit "section 123AB of the Repatriation Act 1920", substitute "section 82 of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986".

Subsection 6AC(13):
Omit "a service pension under the Repatriation Act 1920", substitute "a service pension, a wife's service pension or a carer's service pension under Part III of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986".

After subsection 6A(3):
Insert the following subsection:
 (3A) The reference in paragraph (3)(b) to a service pension under the Repatriation Act 1920 that a person has continued to receive since 1 November 1984 shall, on and after the date of commencement of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986, be read as a reference to such a pension that the person continued to receive during the period from and including 1 November 1984 to and