Veterans' Entitlements, Treatment and Support (Simplification and Harmonisation) Act 2025 (17 of 2025)

Schedule 2   Single ongoing Act enhancements

Part 1   Amendments relating to allowances etc.

Division 7   Additional compensation for children of severely impaired veterans

Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

86   Subsection 80(1)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

(1) This section applies to a person (the impaired person ) if:

(a) either or both of the following apply:

(i) the Commission has accepted liability for one or more injuries or diseases of the person (other than because of the operation of section 24A of this Act);

(ii) the person is covered by subsection (1A) of this section; and

(b) the Commission has determined that the degree of impairment suffered by the person as a result of one or more service injuries or diseases constitutes at least 80 impairment points.

(1A) A person is covered by this subsection if:

(a) the Commission is taken to have accepted liability for an injury sustained, or a disease contracted, by the person (the original condition ) because of the operation of section 24A; and

(b) the Commission is satisfied that:

(i) the person has suffered additional impairment as result of another injury or disease or as a result of a deterioration in the original condition; and

(ii) the increase in the person's overall impairment constitutes at least 5 impairment points.