33Requests to institute proceedings, &c.

33 Requests to institute proceedings, &c.

(1) Where a person had been requested, under subsection 107S(1) of the Repatriation Act to institute proceedings or fresh proceedings, or properly to prosecute proceedings, before the commencing date and the proceedings to which the request related had not been completed before that date, section 75 of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act applies to and in relation to that person and to and in relation to the proceedings to which that request related, on and after that date, as if that request had been made by notice under subsection 75(1) of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act. (2) For the purpose of the application of section 75 of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act in accordance with subsection (1) of this section, any act or thing done under section 107S of the Repatriation Act in pursuance of the request under that section shall be treated, on and after the commencing date, as if it had been done under section 75 of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act.