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

Schedule 1   Single ongoing Act main amendments

Part 3   Other amendments

Division 1   Permanent impairment

Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

80   Subsection 71(3)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

Determination of date

(3) The Commission must determine the date on which the person became entitled to compensation under this section.

(4) For the purposes of subsection (3), the date determined for additional compensation under subsection (1) must be the later of:

(a) the date on which a claim was made under section 319 for acceptance of liability for the additional service injuries or diseases; and

(b) the date on which both of the following were first satisfied, as estimated by a medical practitioner who has examined the person:

(i) the additional impairment suffered by the person as a result of the additional injuries or diseases became likely to continue indefinitely;

(ii) each of the person's additional injuries or diseases stabilised.

(5) For the purposes of subsection (3), the date determined for additional compensation under subsection (2) must be the later of:

(a) the date on which the Commission was notified of the deterioration in the person's compensable condition; and

(b) the date on which both of the following were first satisfied, as estimated by a medical practitioner who has examined the person:

(i) the additional impairment suffered by the person as a result of the deterioration in the person's compensable condition became likely to continue indefinitely;

(ii) the person's compensable condition stabilised.

References to person who has been paid, or is entitled to be paid, compensation under this Part

(6) For the purposes of this section, a person is taken to have been paid, or be entitled to be paid, compensation under this Part if the Commission is taken to have accepted liability for an injury sustained, or a disease contracted, by the person because of the operation of section 24A.