Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025A00017:clause:2_268aa
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025A00017
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 2 cl 268AA
Character Range: 119342–120391

268AA  Automatic payment of funeral compensation to estate of certain deceased members
  The Commonwealth is liable to pay, to the estate of a deceased member, compensation in respect of the deceased member's funeral if, immediately before the deceased member died:
 (a) the member was being paid a pension under Part II of the VEA at the rate specified in subsection 22(4) of that Act; or
 (b) the member was being paid a pension under Part II of the VEA as a member to whom section 24 of that Act applied; or
 (c) the member was being paid a pension under Part II of the VEA at a rate that had been increased under section 27 of that Act because the member was incapacitated from a war‑caused injury or a war‑caused disease of a kind described in any of items 1 to 8 of the table in subsection 27(1) of that Act; or
 (d) the Commission was satisfied that the member had, before 1 July 2004, been made a prisoner of war at a time when the member was rendering operational service.
Note: A claim for compensation under section 319 is not required.