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Veterans' Entitlements (Special Disability Trust Beneficiary Requirements) Nomination of Agreement Instrument 2015

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This instrument names four intergovernmental disability and health agreements that are used to decide who qualifies as a beneficiary of a Special Disability Trust under the Veterans' Entitlements Act — affecting veterans and families seeking to shelter care and housing funds from pension tests. It updates a 2006 list to include NDIS-era agreements and locks eligibility to the agreements' versions as of October 2015.

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Veterans’ Entitlements (Special Disability Trust Beneficiary Requirements) Nomination of Agreement 2015

Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

Instrument 2015 No. R66

The REPATRIATION COMMISSION, acting under subsection 52ZZZWA (3) of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986, makes this instrument.

Dated this 1st day of October 2015

The Seal of the )

Repatriation Commission ) SEAL

was affixed hereto in the )

presence of: )

Simon Lewis Major General Mark Kelly

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SIMON LEWIS Major General Mark Kelly

AO DSC

PRESIDENT COMMISSIONER

1 Name of Instrument

This Instrument is the Veterans’ Entitlements (Special Disability Trust Beneficiary Requirements) Nomination of Agreement Instrument 2015.

2 Commencement

This Instrument commences on the day after it is registered.

3 Revocation

The Veterans’ Entitlements (Special Disability Trust Beneficiary Requirements) Nomination of Agreement 2006 is revoked.

4 Definitions

In this Instrument:

Act means the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.

5 Nominated Agreements

For subparagraph 52ZZZWA (2) (b) (ii) of the Act, each agreement mentioned in Schedule 1 is a nominated agreement.

Note: a reference to an agreement in Schedule 1 is a reference to the agreement in the version in which it exists on the date this instrument commences - it is not a reference to the agreement as it may change from time to time.

Schedule 1 Nominated agreements

National Disability Agreement.
Intergovernmental Agreement for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Launch.
National Partnership Agreement on Trial of My Way Sites.
National Health Reform Agreement.

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