Veterans’ Entitlements Amendment (Medical Expenses Reimbursement) Regulations 2017

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 23 March 2017

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Dan Tehan

Minister for Veterans’ Affairs

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Veterans’ Entitlements Regulations 1986

1  Name

  This instrument is the Veterans’ Entitlements Amendment (Medical Expenses Reimbursement) Regulations 2017.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  The whole of this instrument

1 April 2017.

1 April 2017

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

 

Veterans’ Entitlements Regulations 1986

1  Regulations 8A and 13A

Omit “$467.50”, substitute “$1000”.

2  After regulation 16

Insert:

17  Application of amendments relating to medical expenses reimbursement

  The amendments made by the Veterans’ Entitlements Amendment (Medical Expenses Reimbursement) Regulations 2017 apply in relation to an application under section 170A or 196ZN of the Act that is made on or after the commencement of this item.