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REPATRIATION COMMISSION

    Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

    Veterans' Entitlements (Transition Care/Home Care Package – Co Payment for Ex POW/Victoria Cross Recipients) Eligibility Determination 2021

Instrument 2021 No R10

    1. The Repatriation Commission makes this Determination under paragraph 88A(1)(a) of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 (Act).

    2. For the purposes of paragraph 88A(1)(a) of the Act the Repatriation Commission specifies the class of persons in Part 2 and the kind of treatment in Part 3.

Dated this      26th  day of   March  2021

The Seal of the                           )
Repatriation Commission          )
was affixed hereto in the            )
presence of:                                )

Elizabeth Cosson  Kate Pope         Donald Spinks
ELIZABETH COSSON  KATE POPE         DONALD SPINKS
AM CSC            PSM               AM
PRESIDENT         DEPUTY PRESIDENT  COMMISSIONER

Gwen Cherne
GWEN CHERNE                         Stuart Smith
                                    STUART SMITH
COMMISSIONER                        AO DSC
                                    COMMISSIONER

Part 1 Introduction

1.1 Name of Determination

    This Determination is the Veterans' Entitlements (Transition Care/Home Care Package – Co Payment for Ex POW/Victoria Cross Recipients) Eligibility Determination 2021.

1.2     Commencement

    This Determination commences on the day after the day it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.

1.3 Revocation

    The Veterans' Entitlements (Transition Care/Community Care at Home Package – Co Payment for Ex POW/Victoria Cross Recipients) Eligibility Determination 2011 is revoked.

1.4 Definitions

    In this Determination:

    Act means the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986.

    Home Care Package means the treatment received under a Home Care Package referred to in Part D of PART 10 of the Treatment Principles.

    Repatriation Commission means the body corporate continued in existence under section 179 of the Act.

    specified class means the class of persons specified in Part 2 of this Determination.

    specified treatment means treatment described in Part 3 of this Determination.

    transition care means the treatment of that name in Part E of PART 10 of the Treatment Principles.

    Treatment Principles means the document prepared by the Repatriation Commission under section 90 of the Act.

    veteran means a person described in paragraph (a) of the definition of veteran in subsection 5C(1) of the Act or means a person described in paragraph 81(2)(a) of the Act (as those provisions are in force from time to time).

1.5 Purpose

    To specify, for the purposes of paragraph 88A(1)(a) of the Act respectively, a class of veterans and the kind of treatment a veteran within a relevant class is eligible to be provided under the Act.

     Upon the identification of the class and the relevant treatment, the Repatriation Commission may accept financial responsibility for the relevant treatment provided to a person in the class.

     Section 88A of the Act enables the Repatriation Commission to extend treatment-eligibility in the Act so that a person may be provided with treatment for any injury/disease, irrespective of whether it is service-related