{"id":"F2005B02336","name":"Veterans' Entitlements Income Exempt Lump Sum Determination No. 1 of 2003","slug":"veterans-entitlements-income-exempt-lump-sum-determination-no-1-of-2003","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":32669,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2005B02336-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Veterans' Entitlements Income Exempt Lump Sum Determination No. 1 of 2003","content":"Commonwealth of Australia\n\nVETERANS’ ENTITLEMENT ACT 1986\n\nVeterans’ Entitlements Income Exempt Lump Sum\n\nDetermination No. 1 of 2003\n\nI, ROBERT TURNER, Acting Branch Head, Income Support Branch and delegate of the Repatriation Commission, hereby determine the “amount or one of a class of amounts” specified in Part 2 of the attached Schedule to this instrument to be an “exempt lump sum” in accordance with paragraph 5H(12)(c) of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.\n\nDated this 25th day of March 2003\n\nROBERT TURNER\n\nDelegate\n\n  \nVeterans’ Entitlements Income Exempt Lump Sum\n\nDetermination No.1 of 2003\n\nSchedule\n\nPart 1: Preliminary and Interpretation\n\n1.1 NAME OF DETERMINATION\n\nThis determination is the Veterans’ Entitlements Income Exempt Lump Sum Determination No. 1 of 2003\n\n1.2 COMMENCEMENT\n\nThis determination commences on the date it is signed.\n\n1.3 DEFINITIONS\n\nIn this determination:\n\n“Act” means the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986\n\n“exit assistance” means the one-off payment of financial assistance made by the Commonwealth of up to $45,000 for growers in the sugar industry as announced on 25 September 2002 by the Hon. Warren Truss MP, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.\n\n  \nPART 2: Exempt Lump Sums\n\n2.1 Amount or Class of Amounts\n\nParagraph 5H(12)(c) OF THE Act provides that an amount, or class of amounts, received by a person is an exempt lump sum if the amount, or class of amounts, is determined to be a lump sum.\n\n2.2 Application- Exempt Lump Sums\n\nIt is appropriate to determine that an amount, or class of amounts, paid to a person, on or after the announcement on 25 September 2002 of the one-off payment of exit assistance is an exempt lump sum for the purposes of paragraph 5H(12)(c) of the Act from the date that the one-off payment is made to the person.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1694},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The determination remains precisely targeted to its original narrow purpose: exempting the specific 2002 sugar industry exit assistance payments from veterans' income tests. No mission creep or expansion beyond this administrative adjustment is evident."},"complexity_factors":["Very short single-purpose instrument (approximately 300 words)","Only 2 defined terms ('Act' and 'exit assistance')","Single cross-reference to parent Act (paragraph 5H(12)(c))","No conditional logic, exceptions, or operative subsections","Declaratory effect only (stating that X is exempt)"],"plain_english_summary":"This determination protects veterans who are also sugar‑industry growers from having their veteran pension reduced by government “exit assistance” payments (up to $45,000) paid to leave the industry. Those specific lump‑sum payments are declared an “exempt lump sum,” so Veterans’ Affairs will ignore them for income testing under the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986, preserving pension rate and eligibility for affected veterans and dependents."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/veterans-entitlements-income-exempt-lump-sum-determination-no-1-of-2003","history":"/api/acts/veterans-entitlements-income-exempt-lump-sum-determination-no-1-of-2003/history","analysis":"/api/acts/veterans-entitlements-income-exempt-lump-sum-determination-no-1-of-2003/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/veterans-entitlements-income-exempt-lump-sum-determination-no-1-of-2003/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/veterans-entitlements-income-exempt-lump-sum-determination-no-1-of-2003/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/veterans-entitlements-income-exempt-lump-sum-determination-no-1-of-2003/documents"}}