---

meta-content-style-type: text/css meta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8

?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>

Coat of Arms of the Commonwealth of Australia

Veterans’ Entitlements (Health and Wellbeing Program) Determination 2025

I, Luke Brown, a delegate of the Repatriation Commission, make the following instrument.

Dated 17th February 2025

 

Luke Brown

First Assistant Secretary, Policy Division

Department of Veterans’ Affairs

Part 1—Preliminary

1  Name

This instrument is the Veterans’ Entitlements (Health and Wellbeing Program) Determination 2025.

2  Commencement

This instrument commences on the day after the day it is registered.

3  Authority

This instrument is made under subsections 88A(1) and (2) of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.

4  Definitions

Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act, including the following:

(a) Commission (see section 5A);

(b) operational service (see sections 6 to 6F);

(c) peacekeeping service (see subsection 68(1));

(d) veteran (see paragraph 80(2)(c)).

  In this instrument:

health and wellbeing program means a 12-month program:

 (a) to improve or maintain an individual’s physical or mental health or social wellbeing; and

 (b) that includes:

 (i) regular fitness training supervised by appropriately qualified individuals; and

 (ii) education about cardiovascular health; and

 (c) run by or for the Commission.

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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Part 2—Specified classes and kind of treatment

6  Veterans in specified class eligible for health and wellbeing program

 (1) For paragraph 88A(1)(a) of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986, a specified class is a class made up of veterans:

 (a) who have rendered:

 (i) operational service; or

 (ii) peacekeeping service; and

 (b) if any of the veterans has participated in a health and wellbeing program—who the Commission determines should participate in the program again in all the circumstances.