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This instrument is the Veterans’ Entitlements (Point Cook Firefighters) Determination 2021.
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This Determination identifies people who served, trained or instructed as firefighters at RAAF Base Point Cook between 1 Jan 1957 and 31 Dec 1986 as a specified class for treatments under the Veterans’ Entitlements Act. It authorises a 12‑month health and wellbeing program (run by or for the Commission) and specified colorectal and melanoma screening options; the Commission also decides who may repeat the program (see s4, s5).
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This instrument is the Veterans’ Entitlements (Point Cook Firefighters) Determination 2021.
This instrument is made under paragraph 88A(1)(d) of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.
In this instrument:
Act means the Veterans’ Entitlements’ Act 1986.
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.
Point Cook firefighter means a person who, at the RAAF Base Point Cook between 1 January 1957 and 31 December 1986:
(a) served as a firefighter; or
(b) participated in a firefighter training course; or
(c) was an instructor of a firefighter training course.
5 Specified kinds of treatment for Point Cook firefighters
(1) For paragraph 88A(1)(d) of the Act, a specified class is made up of: (a) Point Cook firefighters; and (b) if any of the firefighters has participated in a health and wellbeing program—the firefighters who the Commission determines should participate in the program again in all the circumstances. (2) Treatment of the following kinds is specified for a person in the class of people: (a) a health and wellbeing program; (b) colorectal cancer screening, by: (i) a faecal occult blood test; or (ii) a colonoscopy;
(c) melanoma screening, by any 1 or more of the following means:
(i) an examination by a general medical practitioner;
(ii) dermoscopy or dermatoscopy;
(iii) total body digital photography.
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This instrument is the Veterans’ Entitlements (Point Cook Firefighters) Determination 2021.
This instrument is made under paragraph 88A(1)(d) of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.
In this instrument:
Act means the Veterans’ Entitlements’ Act 1986.
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.
Point Cook firefighter means a person who, at the RAAF Base Point Cook between 1 January 1957 and 31 December 1986:
(a) served as a firefighter; or
(b) participated in a firefighter training course; or
(c) was an instructor of a firefighter training course.
5 Specified kinds of treatment for Point Cook firefighters
(1) For paragraph 88A(1)(d) of the Act, a specified class is made up of: (a) Point Cook firefighters; and (b) if any of the firefighters has participated in a health and wellbeing program—the firefighters who the Commission determines should participate in the program again in all the circumstances. (2) Treatment of the following kinds is specified for a person in the class of people: (a) a health and wellbeing program; (b) colorectal cancer screening, by: (i) a faecal occult blood test; or (ii) a colonoscopy;
(c) melanoma screening, by any 1 or more of the following means:
(i) an examination by a general medical practitioner;
(ii) dermoscopy or dermatoscopy;
(iii) total body digital photography.