Veterans' Entitlements (Top Up of Pension Bonus in Specified Circumstances) Instrument 2018
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Repatriation Commission
Veterans' Entitlements (Top Up of Pension Bonus in Specified Circumstances) Instrument 2018
Instrument 2018 No. R3
| The Repatriation Commission, under subsection 45UIC(6) of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986 (the Act) makes the following instrument.Dated this 1 of March 2018The Seal of the )Repatriation Commission ) SEALwas affixed hereto in the )presence of: )Simon Lewis Craig Orme MA KellySIMON LEWIS CRAIG ORME Major General Mark KellyPSM DSC AM CSC AO DSCPRESIDENT DEPUTY PRESIDENT COMMISSIONER |
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1 Name
This determination is the Veterans' Entitlements (Top Up of Pension Bonus in Specified Circumstances) Instrument 2018.
2 Commencement
This instrument commences on the day after this instrument is registered.
3 Authority
This instrument is made under subsection 45UIC(6) of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.
4 Revocation
The Veterans’ Entitlements (Top up of Pension Bonus – Specified Circumstances) Determination 2007 dated 21 December 2007 is revoked.
5 Definitions
In this instrument:
Act means the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.
designated pension has the same meaning as it has in section 45TA of the Act.
6 Specified circumstances
For paragraph 45UIC(1)(b) of the Act, a specified circumstance is that:
(a) the Commission makes a determination under paragraph 45UIC(1)(a) of the Act because of a reduction, since the date on which a determination granting a pension bonus to the person takes effect (the effective day), in either or both of the following:
(i) the value of the person’s assets;
(ii) the person’s ordinary income; and
(b) the determination takes effect on a day that is more than 13 weeks after the effective day; and
(c) the determination is made:
(i) wholly or partly because an administrative error in determining the person’s rate of a designated pension was made by the Secretary before the end of the 13 week period following the effective day; or
(ii) because the person had given the Secretary, before the end of the 13 week period following the effective day, incorrect information about the value of the person’s assets or the person’s ordinary income.