{"id":"F2015L01264","name":"Veterans’ Affairs (TRCP Treatment – Eligibility) Determination 2015","slug":"veterans-affairs-trcp-treatment-eligibility-determination-2015","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":143561,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2015L01264-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-03","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"Australian Government","sectionType":"part","heading":"Australian Government","content":"# ![](image.001.png)\n\n# Australian Government\n\n# Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986\n\n# Veterans’ Affairs (TRCP Treatment – Eligibility) Determination 2015\n\nInstrument 2015 No.R20\n\n| The Repatriation Commission makes this determination under paragraphs 88A(1)(a), (b) and (d) of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.Dated this 6th day of August 2015The Seal of the )Repatriation Commission )was affixed hereto in the ) SEALpresence of: )Simon Lewis Craig Orme........................................................................................................................................................SIMON LEWIS CRAIG ORMEAM CSCPRESIDENT DEPUTY PRESIDENT |\n| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n\n# \n\n# 1 Name\n\nThis instrument is the Veterans’ Affairs (TRCP Treatment – Eligibility) Determination 2015.\n\n2 Commencement\n\n (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.\n\n```html\n

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The day the Veterans’ Affairs (Treatment Principles – TRCP Treatment and Updating of RAP Schedules) Amendment Instrument 2015 commenced.

22 May 2015

\n```\n\n3 Authority\n\nThis instrument is made under section 88A of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.\n\n \n\n4 Definitions:\n\n(1) In this Instrument:\n\nAct means the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.\n\ndependant, in relation to a member, means a partner of a member or of a former member or a child or stepchild of a member or of a former member.\n\nentitled person has the meaning it has in the Treatment Principles.\n\nformer member has the meaning it has in section 5 of the MRCA.\n\nmember has the meaning it has in section 5 of the MRCA.\n\nMRCA Treatment Principles means the legislative instrument of that name made by the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission under paragraph 286(1)(a) of the MRCA.\n\nTreatment Principles means the document prepared by the Repatriation Commission under subsection 90(1) of the Act.\n\nveteran has the meaning it has in paragraph (a) of the definition of “veteran” in subsection 5C(1) of the Act and includes the extended meaning of “veteran” in subsection 81(2) of the Act (i.e. member of the Forces; member of a Peacekeeping Force).\n\nNote: veteran is defined in the Act as including a deceased veteran\n\nWhite Card has the meaning it has in the Treatment Principles or the MRCA Treatment Principles as the case requires.\n\nThe following terms are defined in the Act:\n\n- child – s.5F(1)\n- dependant – s.11\n- MRCA – s.5Q(1)\n- partner – s.5E(1)\n\n5 Eligibility for TRCP treatment\n\n(1) A person in a class in Part A is eligible for the treatment in Part B as an entitled person under the Treatment Principles or as if the person is an entitled person under the Treatment Principles:\n\n| PART AA veteran eligible for treatment under Part V of the Act.A dependant of a veteran – being a dependant eligible for treatment under Part V of the Act.A member eligible for treatment under Chapter 6 of the MRCA.A dependant of a member or of a former member – being a dependant eligible for treatment under Chapter 6 of the MRCA. | PART BTRCP treatment |\n| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------- |\n\nNotes:\n\n- TRCP treatment may be applied to a non-service-related condition of a veteran, member or former member e.g. an otherwise “ineligible condition” of the holder of a White Card;\n- Because paragraph 88A(1)(d) of the Act enables eligibility for treatment to be determined for “a person”, the person need not be a veteran or dependant of a veteran (persons normally covered by the Act) and may be a person covered by the MRCA. Accordingly the MRCA Treatment Principles do not need a corresponding part dealing with TRCP Treatment.\n- Veterans and dependants of veterans are included in this instrument, albeit some veterans and dependants could be eligible for TRCP treatment without needing to be included in this instrument, so that TRCP treatment may be applied to any “ineligible condition” of a veteran i.e. a condition that is not service-related, and in relation to both veterans and dependants, so that TRCP treatment may be applied “whole-of-person” i.e. the person need not have any injury or disease. Thus TRCP treatment may be applied to the effects of frailty caused by the ageing process.","sortOrder":0},{"sectionNumber":"Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986","sectionType":"part","heading":"Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986","content":"# Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986","sortOrder":1},{"sectionNumber":"Veterans’ Affairs (TRCP Treatment — Elig","sectionType":"part","heading":"Veterans’ Affairs (TRCP Treatment — Eligibility) Determination 2015","content":"# Veterans’ Affairs (TRCP Treatment – Eligibility) Determination 2015\n\nInstrument 2015 No.R20\n\n| The Repatriation Commission makes this determination under paragraphs 88A(1)(a), (b) and (d) of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.Dated this 6th day of August 2015The Seal of the )Repatriation Commission )was affixed hereto in the ) SEALpresence of: )Simon Lewis Craig Orme........................................................................................................................................................SIMON LEWIS CRAIG ORMEAM CSCPRESIDENT DEPUTY PRESIDENT |\n| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n\n#","sortOrder":2},{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"part","heading":"Name","content":"# 1 Name\n\nThis instrument is the Veterans’ Affairs (TRCP Treatment – Eligibility) Determination 2015.\n\n2 Commencement\n\n (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.\n\n```html\n

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22 May 2015

\n```\n\n3 Authority\n\nThis instrument is made under section 88A of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.\n\n \n\n4 Definitions:\n\n(1) In this Instrument:\n\nAct means the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.\n\ndependant, in relation to a member, means a partner of a member or of a former member or a child or stepchild of a member or of a former member.\n\nentitled person has the meaning it has in the Treatment Principles.\n\nformer member has the meaning it has in section 5 of the MRCA.\n\nmember has the meaning it has in section 5 of the MRCA.\n\nMRCA Treatment Principles means the legislative instrument of that name made by the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission under paragraph 286(1)(a) of the MRCA.\n\nTreatment Principles means the document prepared by the Repatriation Commission under subsection 90(1) of the Act.\n\nveteran has the meaning it has in paragraph (a) of the definition of “veteran” in subsection 5C(1) of the Act and includes the extended meaning of “veteran” in subsection 81(2) of the Act (i.e. member of the Forces; member of a Peacekeeping Force).\n\nNote: veteran is defined in the Act as including a deceased veteran\n\nWhite Card has the meaning it has in the Treatment Principles or the MRCA Treatment Principles as the case requires.\n\nThe following terms are defined in the Act:\n\n- child – s.5F(1)\n- dependant – s.11\n- MRCA – s.5Q(1)\n- partner – s.5E(1)\n\n5 Eligibility for TRCP treatment\n\n(1) A person in a class in Part A is eligible for the treatment in Part B as an entitled person under the Treatment Principles or as if the person is an entitled person under the Treatment Principles:\n\n| PART AA veteran eligible for treatment under Part V of the Act.A dependant of a veteran – being a dependant eligible for treatment under Part V of the Act.A member eligible for treatment under Chapter 6 of the MRCA.A dependant of a member or of a former member – being a dependant eligible for treatment under Chapter 6 of the MRCA. | PART BTRCP treatment |\n| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------- |\n\nNotes:\n\n- TRCP treatment may be applied to a non-service-related condition of a veteran, member or former member e.g. an otherwise “ineligible condition” of the holder of a White Card;\n- Because paragraph 88A(1)(d) of the Act enables eligibility for treatment to be determined for “a person”, the person need not be a veteran or dependant of a veteran (persons normally covered by the Act) and may be a person covered by the MRCA. Accordingly the MRCA Treatment Principles do not need a corresponding part dealing with TRCP Treatment.\n- Veterans and dependants of veterans are included in this instrument, albeit some veterans and dependants could be eligible for TRCP treatment without needing to be included in this instrument, so that TRCP treatment may be applied to any “ineligible condition” of a veteran i.e. a condition that is not service-related, and in relation to both veterans and dependants, so that TRCP treatment may be applied “whole-of-person” i.e. the person need not have any injury or disease. Thus TRCP treatment may be applied to the effects of frailty caused by the ageing process.","sortOrder":3}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument maintains its original narrow purpose of specifying eligibility for TRCP treatment. It does not expand beyond this specific function, though it does integrate eligibility across two separate legislative schemes (VEA and MRCA) which was likely the original intent given the parallel structure of veterans' legislation."},"complexity_factors":["Short instrument with only 5 sections and minimal conditional logic","8 defined terms in section 4, mostly referencing external definitions from other legislation","Simple two-column table format for eligibility rules in section 5","Cross-references to two separate Acts (Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 and MRCA) and associated Treatment Principles","No nested exceptions or complex procedural requirements","Explanatory notes provide helpful context but are not legally binding"],"plain_english_summary":"This law expands access to TRCP (Treatment and Rehabilitation for Chronic Pain) so eligible veterans, their dependants, and current/former ADF members covered by the VEA or MRCA can receive pain treatment for any condition — not only service-related injuries. \n\nIt implements a whole-of-person approach and aligns both compensation schemes to ensure consistent access to chronic pain care."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"This instrument broadens administrative eligibility by explicitly including persons covered by the MRCA and by permitting TRCP treatment for non‑service‑related conditions and whole‑of‑person applications (see cl.5 and accompanying notes). It therefore expands the classes administratively eligible for TRCP treatment compared with a strict service‑related scope, with entitlement and delivery determined by the Treatment Principles."},"complexity_factors":["Cross‑references to multiple instruments and statutes (authority under s.88A of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986; relies on the Treatment Principles and the MRCA Treatment Principles).","Broad eligibility classes that span two statutory schemes (veterans and dependants under the VEA; members and dependants under the MRCA) (see cl.5(1)).","Substantive widening of application: permits TRCP treatment for non‑service‑related ('ineligible') conditions and 'whole‑of‑person' treatment (notes to cl.5).","Commencement tied to a separate amendment instrument (commencement table), requiring attention to temporal application.","Dependence on externally defined terms (e.g. 'entitled person', 'White Card', 'member', 'veteran'), so interpretation requires consulting other instruments and Act provisions (Definitions, cl.4).","Administrative implementation and discretion rest with the Repatriation Commission and the Treatment Principles rather than new statutory rules, concentrating operational detail in delegated instruments (Authority, cl.3; Definitions, cl.4)."],"plain_english_summary":"This determination, made under s.88A of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986, says the Repatriation Commission may treat veterans, members and their dependants covered by the VEA or the MRCA as \"entitled persons\" for TRCP treatment. It allows TRCP treatment to be provided for non‑service‑related conditions and on a whole‑of‑person basis. The Treatment Principles govern entitlement and delivery, so the instrument administratively extends who can receive TRCP treatment without amending the primary Acts."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"Unauthenticated. Configure AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY or use a provider module. 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