Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A04077:schedule:2:p11
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A04077
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 2 (pt 11/21)
Character Range: 66870–69610

assistance

55. Section 55 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraph (1) (a) "$1,040" and substituting "$1,300".

  Commencement: 20 March 1991

Remote area allowance

  56. Section 57 of the Principal Act is amended:

     (a) by adding "and" at the end of paragraph (a) of the definition of "remote area" in subsection (1);

     (b) by inserting after paragraph (a) of the definition of "remote area" in subsection (1) the following paragraphs:

          "(aa) those parts of Australia referred to in Part II of that Schedule to that Act that are further than 250 kilometres by the shortest practicable surface route from the nearest urban centre with a census population (within the meaning of that Act) of 2,500 or more; and

          (ab) those places in Australia that, for the purposes of that Act, are treated as if they were in a part of Australia referred to in paragraph (a) or (aa); and".

  Commencement: 1 January 1991

  57. Section 64 of the Principal Act is repealed.

  Commencement: Day of Royal Assent

Interpretation

58. Section 68 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in subsection (1) the following definition:

" 'hazardous service' has the same meaning as in subsection 120 (7);".

  Commencement: Day of Royal Assent

Application of Part to members of the Forces

  59. Section 69 of the Principal Act is amended:

  (a) by adding at the end of paragraphs (1) (c) and (d) "or";

  (b) by inserting after paragraph (1) (e) the following paragraph:

          "(ea) if the person has rendered hazardous service as a member of the Defence Force; or".

  Commencement: Day of Royal Assent

Eligibility for pension under this Part

  60. Section 70 of the Principal Act is amended:

     (a) by inserting in subparagraph (2) (c) (i) "subsection 22 (4) or" after "whom";

  Commencement: 22 December 1988

  (b) by inserting in subsection (5) "(other than a member to whom

   this Part applies solely because of paragraph 69 (1) (ea))" after "member of the Forces";

Commencement: Day of Royal Assent

(c) by inserting after subsection (5) the following subsections:

   "(5a) If this Part applies to a member of the Forces solely because the member has rendered hazardous service as specified in paragraph 69 (1) (ea), the death of the member is taken to be defence-caused, an injury suffered by such a member is taken to be a defence-caused injury or a disease contracted by such a member is taken to be a defence-caused disease if:

       (a) the death, injury or disease, as the case may be, arose out of, or was attributable to, the hazardous service of the member; or

       (b) subject to subsection (8), the death, injury or disease, as the case may be, resulted from an accident