Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2016C00143:section:14:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2016C00143
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 14 (pt 3/3)
Character Range: 42156–43989

was, immediately before the commencing date, eligible to be provided with medical treatment for venereal disease contracted during war service, by virtue of a determination or decision in force under a prescribed regulation, the person is eligible to be provided with treatment under Part V of the Veterans' Entitlements Act for that disease from and including the commencing date as if:
 (a) a determination under that Act were in force determining that venereal disease was a war‑caused disease from which the person was suffering; and
 (b) the person had been determined, under the Veterans' Entitlements Act, to be a veteran as defined by paragraph (a) of the definition of veteran in subsection 5C(1) of that Act.
 (10) For the purposes of subsection (9), each of the following regulations is a prescribed regulation:
 (a) regulation 65 of the Repatriation Regulations; and
 (b) regulation 6 of the Interim Forces Benefits Regulations.
 (11) Where:
 (a) a person was, immediately before 25 November 1976, a service pensioner eligible to be provided with treatment under regulation 66 of the Repatriation Regulations;
 (b) the person ceased, on that date, to be a service pensioner by reason only that the person was, on that date, a prescribed person within the meaning of section 123AB of the Repatriation Act; and
 (c) the person has been such a prescribed person continuously from that date to and including the date immediately preceding the commencing date;
Part V of the Veterans' Entitlements Act applies to the person as if the person were eligible to be provided with treatment under subsection 85(5) of that Act until the person ceases to be a prescribed person for the purposes of that Part or the rate of the person's income exceeds the annual rate of the person's income on 25 November 1976, whichever first occurs.