Commonwealth Numbered Acts

VETERANS' AFFAIRS LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1987

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.      Short title  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Principal Act  
   4.      Interpretation  
   5.      Operational service  
   6.      War-caused injuries or diseases  
   7.      Duties of Commission in relation to pensions  
   8.      Review by Commission  
   9.      Interpretation  
   10.     Method of calculation of income  
   11.     Eligibility for wife's service pension  
   12.     Claim for service pension etc.  
   13.     Rate of veteran's service pension  
   14.     Rate of wife's service pension  
   15.      
   16.     Calculation of value of property  
   17.      
   18.     Remote area allowance  
   19.     Right to be paid service pension outside Australia  
   20.     Special temporary allowance  
   21.     Payment of wife's service pension after death of veteran  
   22.     Eligibility for pension under this Part  
   23.     Overpayments of pension  
   24.     Prescribed persons  
   25.     Veterans eligible to be provided with treatment  
   26.      
   27.     Funeral benefits - service pensioners  
   28.     Loss of earnings allowance  
   29.     Application  
   30.     Time for applying for funeral benefit  
   31.     Interpretation  
   32.     Commission not bound by technicalities  
   33.     Pensions etc. absolutely inalienable  
   34.     Power to obtain information  
   35.     Payment of travelling expenses in certain cases  
   36.     Review of decisions in respect of pensions  
   37.     Statements of decisions of the Board etc.  
   38.     Procedure of Board  
   39.      
   40.      
   41.     Applications for review  
   42.     Application of Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act  
   43.     Effective dates of payment of pension or increased pension  
   44.     Commissioner to disclose any interest in claims for pensions etc.  
   45.     Repeal of section 197A  
   46.     Variation of rates of certain pensions  
   47.     Recovery of overpayments  
   48.     Delegation by Commission  
   49.     Minor amendments  
   50.     Principal Act  
   51.     Existing pensions, other than service pensions  
   52.     Pensions - re-marriage or marriage of widow  
   53.     Persons deemed to be in receipt of pensions etc.  
   54.     Allowances and other benefits  
   55.     Reviews of certain decisions made under repealed Acts  
   56.     Rent assistance  
   57.      
   58.     Recovery of cost of medical treatment  
   59.     Notice to be given of certain events affecting pensions  
   60.     Trusts in respect of pensions and allowances  
   61.     Schedule  
   62.     Principal Act  
   63.     Commencement  
   64.     Principal Act  
   65.     Rate of veteran's service pension  
   66.     Principal Act  
   67.     Interpretation  
   68.     Allowance for attendant  
   69.     Application for review  
   70.     Application of certain provisions of Part IX of Veterans' Entitlements Act  
   71.      
   72.     Application for review  
   73.     Application of certain provisions of Part X of the Veterans' Entitlements Act  
   74.      
   75.     Review by Commission  
   76.      
   77.     Principal Act  
   78.     Appropriation for pensions etc.  
   79.     Principal Act  
   80.     Interpretation  
   81.     Transitional - pensions (other than service pensions)  
   82.     Transitional - service pensions  
   83.     Transitional - notification of occurrences and events related to rent allowance  
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