Budget Savings (Omnibus) Act 2016 (55 of 2016)

Schedule 21   Closing carbon tax compensation to new welfare recipients

Part 4   Energy supplement under the Veterans' Entitlements Act

Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

106   At the end of section 118P

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(4) If:

(a) on 19 September 2016 energy supplement was payable to a person under section 118PA; and

(b) either:

(i) the person is absent from Australia on 19 September 2016 and has been so for a continuous period not exceeding 6 weeks; or

(ii) the person leaves Australia on a day on or after 20 September 2016 and, on the day before so leaving, energy supplement was payable to the person under section 118PA; and

(c) the person returns to Australia, where the period of that absence has exceeded 6 weeks but not exceeded 19 weeks; and

(d) the person is the holder of a seniors health card on the day before the person returns to Australia;

then the person is taken to have been eligible for energy supplement under this section on each day that occurs in the period beginning on the day after the end of that 6-week period of absence and ending at the end of the day before the person returned to Australia.

(5) Subsection (4) does not limit section 118PB.

Note: After the person's period of absence exceeds 6 weeks, there will be no daily rate of energy supplement for the person: see subsection 118PB(2).