Part 1Preliminary

Part 1—Preliminary

1 Name

This instrument is the Veterans’ Entitlements (Special Assistance—Crisis Payments) Instrument 2025.

2 Commencement

This instrument commences on the commencement of item 84 of Schedule 2 to the Administrative Review Tribunal (Miscellaneous Measures) Act 2025.

3 Authority

This instrument is made under section 106 of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.

4 Repeals

The Veterans’ Entitlements (Special Assistance) Regulations 1999 is repealed.

Note Since the commencement of the Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Act 2014, schedule 1, subitem 61(2), those regulations have been in effect as a legislative instrument made by the Commission under subsection 106(1) of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.

5 Definitions

Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in section 5Q of the Act, including the following:

(a) Commission
(b) energy supplement
(c) family member
(d) member of a couple
(e) Rate Calculator
(f) service pension.

(1) In this instrument:

Act means the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.

claim means a claim for crisis payment.

claimant means the person by whom, or on whose behalf, a claim is made.

contacted the Department has the meaning given by section 6.

crisis payment means a payment under this instrument.

home means a person’s principal place of residence.

lawful custody means detention of a person in gaol, or in psychiatric confinement, because he or she has been charged with an offence.

liquid assets, of a person, means cash and readily realisable assets of the person, and of the person’s partner (if the person is a member of a couple), and includes:

shares and debentures in a public company within the meaning of the Corporations Law; and

amounts deposited with, or lent to, a bank or other financial institution by the person or partner (whether or not the amount can be withdrawn or repaid immediately); and

amounts due, and able to be paid, to the person or partner by, or on behalf of, a former employer of the person or partner;