{"id":"F2022L00128","name":"Veterans' Entitlements (Exempt Lump Sum – Payments under the Territories Stolen Generations Redress Scheme) Determination 2022","slug":"veterans-entitlements-exempt-lump-sum-payments-under-the-territories-stolen-generations-redress-sche","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":441198,"registerId":"F2022L00128-fast-fetch-1775956559132","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-12","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Veterans' Entitlements (Exempt Lump Sum – Payments under the Territories Stolen Generations Redress Scheme) Determination 2022","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\n![Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia](image.001.jpeg)\n\n \n\n \n\nVeterans’ Entitlements Act 1986\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nVeterans’ Entitlements (Exempt Lump Sum – Payments under the Territories Stolen Generations Redress Scheme) Determination 2022\n\n \n\nInstrument 2022 No. R2\n\nI, Simon Hill, delegate of the Repatriation Commission, make the following determination under paragraph 5H(12)(c) of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.\n\nDated this 8th day of  February 2022    \n\nSimon Hill\n\nAssistant Secretary\n\nPolicy Development Branch\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nContents\n\n1  Name\n\n2  Commencement\n\n3  Authority\n\n4  Definitions\n\n5  Exempt lump sum\n\n \n\n \n\n1  Name\n\n  This determination is the Veterans’ Entitlements (Exempt Lump Sum – Payments under the Territories Stolen Generations Redress Scheme) Determination 2022.\n\n2  Commencement\n\n (1) Each provision of this determination 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 \n\n- Commencement information\n- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3\n- Provisions Commencement Date/Details\n- 1. The whole of this instrument On the later of the following dates:\n\n1. at the same time as Schedule 1, Part 2 of the Territories Stolen Generations Redress Scheme (Consequential Amendments) Act 2021 commences;\n2. the day after this instrument is registered.However, the provisions do not commence at all if that Schedule does not commence.\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this determination as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this determination.\n\n (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this determination. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this determination.\n\n3  Authority\n\n  This determination is made under paragraph 5H(12)(c) of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.\n\n4  Definitions\n\n  In this determination:\n\n“Act” means the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.\n\n“income support supplement” means the payment called the income support supplement payable under Part IIIA of the Act.\n\n“payment under the Territories Stolen Generations Redress Scheme” means a payment made by the Commonwealth under the Territories Stolen Generations Redress Scheme to an eligible survivor of the Stolen Generations.\n\n“service pension” has the same meaning as in subsection 5Q(1) of the Act.\n\n“Territories Stolen Generations Redress Scheme” has the same meaning as in section 3 of the Territories Stolen Generations Redress Scheme (Facilitation) Act 2021.\n\n“veteran payment” has the same meaning as in subsection 5Q(1) of the Act.\n\n5  Exempt lump sum\n\nIf:\n\n1.   a person receives a payment under the Territories Stolen Generations Redress Scheme; and\n2.     the person is eligible for, or in receipt of:\n\n\n1.                   an income support supplement; or\n2.                a service pension; or\n3.              a veteran payment;\n\n\n\nthe amount of payment under the Territories Stolen Generations Redress Scheme received by the person is an exempt lump sum.\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The determination does not expand beneficiary categories beyond those stated. It designates payments under the Territories Stolen Generations Redress Scheme as exempt lump sums only for persons eligible for, or in receipt of, the income support supplement, a service pension or a veteran payment (clause 5). It does not amend other provisions of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act or create new classes of entitlement; it only fixes how those specific redress payments are treated for the stated veteran payments."},"complexity_factors":["Short, single‑purpose instrument with a single operative provision (clause 5) that designates certain payments as an exempt lump sum.","Multiple cross‑references to other legislation and provisions: the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986 (authority at cl 3; terms referenced in cl 4), Part IIIA (income support supplement), subsection 5Q(1) (service pension and veteran payment) and the Territories Stolen Generations Redress Scheme (definition and external Act).","Conditional commencement: the whole instrument only commences on the later of two events, including commencement of Schedule 1, Part 2 of a separate Act and registration (clause 2).","Reliance on delegated power under paragraph 5H(12)(c) of the Act (clause 3); implementation requires veterans’ administration to identify qualifying redress payments and affected recipients.","Operational interactions with existing veterans’ entitlements administration (means and payment treatment) even though those detailed rules remain in the parent Act rather than this determination."],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument says that Commonwealth payments made under the Territories Stolen Generations Redress Scheme count as an “exempt lump sum” for people who are eligible for, or receiving, the income support supplement, a service pension or a veteran payment under the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986. Mechanically, it directs veteran‑entitlement administrators to treat those redress payments as exempt lump sums so they do not affect those specific veteran payments."},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument performs exactly the narrow, technical function suggested by its title: exempting a specific category of payment from the veterans' income test. There is no scope creep; it does not expand beyond the Territories Stolen Generations Redress Scheme or create additional exemptions."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short instrument—only 5 sections spanning approximately 1 page","Minimal defined terms (6 definitions, all straightforward cross-references to other Acts)","Single operative provision (section 5) with simple conditional logic (two-part test: receipt of redress payment + eligibility for specified pension)","No nested exceptions, no complex calculations, no substantive amendments to primary legislation","Commencement provision contains a conditional trigger (dependent on commencement of another Act), but this is standard machinery","No cross-references beyond pointing to definitions in parent Act and related redress scheme legislation"],"plain_english_summary":"This determination ensures lump-sum payments from the Territories Stolen Generations Redress Scheme are exempt from income and asset tests when calculating veterans’ pensions.  \n\nIt protects Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander veterans (and their dependents) who receive a service pension, income support supplement or veteran payment, so redress payments won’t reduce or cancel their veterans’ entitlements."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"Unauthenticated. 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