Local Government (Rates and Charges Remissions) Regulations 2024
4Meaning of eligible pensioner
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4 Meaning of eligible pensioner
(1) In this regulation –
health care card means a health care card –
(a) within the meaning of the Social Security Act 1991 of the Commonwealth; and
(b) issued to a person eligible under that Act;
pensioner concession card means a pensioner concession card issued under the Social Security Act 1991 of the Commonwealth or as a fringe benefit under the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 of the Commonwealth;
totally and permanently incapacitated person means a person to whom section 24 of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 of the Commonwealth, or section 199 of the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004 of the Commonwealth, applies;
war widow means –
(a) a war widow receiving a pension under Part II or IV of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 of the Commonwealth at a rate determined in accordance with section 30(1) of that Act; or
(b) a person who was a wholly dependent partner of a person who is a deceased member, within the meaning of section 5 of the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004 of the Commonwealth, to whom section 12 of that Act applies;
war widower means –
(a) a war widower receiving a pension under Part II or IV of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 of the Commonwealth at a rate determined in accordance with section 30(1) of that Act; or
(b) a person who was a wholly dependent partner of a person who is a deceased member, within the meaning of section 5 of the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004 of the Commonwealth, to whom section 12 of that Act applies.
(2) For the purposes of the Act –
means –