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Australian Government

Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986
Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006

Veterans' Affairs (Treatment Principles – Private Accommodation in Hospital Surcharge) Amendment Instrument 2014

Instrument 2014 No.R78/MRCC78

I, Michael Ronaldson, Minister for Veterans' Affairs, as required by the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 (VEA), the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004 (MRCA) and the Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006 (APBNT(T)A), approve:

  (a) under the VEA — the making by the Repatriation Commission of the legislative instrument in Schedule 1.
  (b) under the MRCA — the making by the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission of the legislative instrument in Schedule 2.
  (c) under the APBNT(T)A — the making by the Repatriation Commission of the legislative instrument in Schedule 3.

Dated this 25th  day of September  2014

Michael Ronaldson.....................................

MICHAEL RONALDSON

The Repatriation Commission (RC) makes the legislative instrument in Schedule 1 under the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 (VEA) and makes the legislative instrument in Schedule 3 under the Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006 (APBNT(T)A).

The Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission (MRCC) makes the legislative instrument in Schedule 2 under the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004 (MRCA).

Dated this   4th day of September  2014

The Seals of the                                                              )
Repatriation Commission and                                        )
Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission) SEAL
were affixed hereto in the                                                )
presence of:                                                                      )

SEAL                                                             SEAL

    Simon Lewis                                                                                John Geary
    SIMON LEWIS                                                                                                  JOHN GEARY
 RC PRESIDENT/MRCC CHAIR                                  A/RC DEPUTY PRESIDENT/MRCC MEMBER

 Major General Mark Kelly                                          Rear Admiral Robyn Walker
Major General Mark Kelly                                     REAR ADMIRAL ROBYN WALKER
                 AO DSC                                                                                                AM RN
 RC COMMISSIONER/MRCC MEMBER                                                  MRCC MEMBER

Name

  [1] This instrument is the Veterans' Affairs (Treatment Principles – Private Accommodation in Hospital Surcharge) Instrument 2014.

Commencement

  [2] This instrument commences on the day after it is registered.

  Transitional

  [3] If, before the commencement of this instrument, an entitled person, or an insurer of the person, requested the Repatriation Commission or Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission to accept financial responsibility for part of the cost of the entitled person being accommodated in private accommodation in a hospital, and on the commencement of this instrument the request had not been determined, the request is to be determined, as the case requires, by reference to:

  (a) the Treatment Principles under the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986; or

    (b) the MRCA Treatment Principles under the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004; or

    (c) the Treatment Principles under the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 (VEA Treatment Principles), in their application under the Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006; and

    (d) the Treatment Principles (Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests) 2006, under the Australian Participants in