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VETERANS' AFFAIRS LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 78 of 1987 - SECT 82

82. (1) In this section:

"commencing date" means 2 July 1987;

"pension" means a service pension or a wife's service pension;

"pensioner" means a person in receipt of a pension;

"Principal Act" means the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986;

"Transitional Provisions Act" means the Veterans' Entitlements 
(Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 1986 .

(2) Subject to subsection (3), where, immediately before the commencing date,
a pensioner was in receipt of rent assistance under subsection 32 (5) of the
Transitional Provisions Act, the pensioner is eligible to receive an increase
in his or her pension under section 55 of the Principal Act as amended by this
Act at a rate equal to the rate at which supplementary assistance allowance
would be payable to the person, but for the repeals referred to in subsection
32 (5) of the Transitional Provisions Act, by virtue of, and in accordance
with, subsection 92 (3) of the Repatriation Acts  Amendment Act 1981 .

(3) Subsection (2) ceases to apply to a pensioner:

   (a)  if the pensioner would, if sections 98AA and 98A of the
        Repatriation Act  1920 as amended and in force on 31 January 1982,
        were still in force, cease to be entitled to be paid supplementary
        assistance under those sections; or

   (b)  if the rate of the incease in pension payable to the pensioner under
        section 55 of the Principal Act as amended by this Act but for this
        section exceeds the rate at which the increase is payable to the
        person in accordance with subsection (2) of this section.