Veterans' Entitlements (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 1986
28Savings—child living outside Australia
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28 Savings—child living outside Australia
Where: (a) a person was in receipt of, or was a claimant for, a service pension under Division 5 of Part III of the Repatriation Act on 4 September 1985; (b) the person: (i) has received that pension continuously since 5 September 1985; or (ii) has been granted a service pension in pursuance of that claim under that Division or under Part III of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act and has been in receipt of that pension continuously since it was so granted, as the case may be; (c) a child of that person is living outside Australia; and (d) that child was, on 4 September 1985, treated for the purposes of Division 5 of Part III of the Repatriation Act as then in force, as a child of that person; subsection 5F(4) of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act does not apply to or in relation to that child.