- Date
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19 Mar 2008
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Veterans' Affairs
- Summary
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Amends the:
Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
to: give effect to arrangements for entering into international agreements in relation to the payment of pensions and providing assistance and benefits to eligible persons; authorise the use of funds from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for those purposes; and align the veterans’ entitlements means test with the social security means test; Legislative Instruments Act 2003
to make minor and technical consequential amendments; Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006
to extend the period for which the Commonwealth or Australian Federal Police may be considered as a nuclear test participant for the purposes of the Act; and Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004
to make minor amendments in relation to a definition and clarifying compensation matters.