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Treatment Benefits (Special Access) (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2019

Explanatory Memorandum

(Circulated by authority of the Minister for Veterans' Affairs, The Honourable Darren Chester MP)

Treatment Benefits (Special Access) (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2019

Short Title : Clause 1 provides that the Act is the Treatment Benefits (Special Access)(Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 2019.

Commencement : Clause 2 sets out the commencement date of the provisions of the Act. For convenience the commencement information is replicated below.

Schedules : Clause 3 provides that legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
Provisions Commencement Date/Details
1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.
2. Schedules 1 and 2 At the same time as the Treatment Benefits (Special Access) Act 2019 commences.

However, the provisions do not commence at all if that Act does not commence.


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