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Assent

(2) Section 181 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in paragraph (3) (a) ", on or after 1 September 1987," after "a person is".
Commencement: 1 September 1987

Extra-territorial operation of certain provisions
59. Section 182 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (1) ", 135sb".
Commencement: Day of Royal Assent

PART III—AMENDMENTS OF THE VETERANS' ENTITLEMENTS ACT 1986

Principal Act
60. In this Part, "Principal Act" means the Veterans' Entitlements Act 19862.
Commencement: Day of Royal Assent

Interpretation
61. Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting subsection (14).
Commencement: 27 October 1986

Dependants
62. Section 11 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting subsection (4).
Commencement: Day of Royal Assent

63. Section 12 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section is substituted:

Interpretation
    "12. In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears:
     'application day', in relation to a veteran who has made a claim for a pension or an application for an increase in the rate of a pension or a veteran on whose behalf such a claim or application has been made, means the day on which the claim or application was received at an office of the Department in Australia or, if subscription on 20 (2) or 21 (2) applies to the veteran, the day on which the claim or application referred to in paragraph 20 (2) (a) or 21 (2) (a) was so received;
    'pension' means a pension under this Part.".
Commencement: 22 May 1986

Determination of claims and applications
64. Section 19 of the Principal Act is amended:
    (a) by omitting from subsection (2) "Where" and substituting "Subject to subsection (2a), where"; and
    (b) by inserting after subsection (2) the following subsection:
    "(2a) In determining whether the rate of pension payable to a veteran should be the rate applicable under section 23 or 24, the only relevant consideration is whether the veteran was a veteran to whom that section applied on the application day in relation to the veteran.".
Commencement: 22 May 1986

65. After section 24 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

Continuation of rates of certain pensions
"24a. Where the Commonwealth is or becomes liable to pay a pension to a veteran at the rate applicable under section 23 or 24, that rate continues, while a pension continues to be payable to the veteran, to apply to the veteran unless:
    (a) the decision to apply that rate of pension to the veteran would not have been made but for a false statement or misrepresentation made by a person;
    (b) in the case of a veteran to whom section 23 applies:
        (i) the veteran is undertaking or is