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 6   Education schemes

Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

69   After subsection 258(1)

Insert:

(1A) If the Commission is taken to have accepted liability for an injury sustained, or a disease contracted, by a member or former member (the original condition ) because of the operation of section 24A, then paragraph (1)(a) of this section does not apply in respect of the member or former member unless:

(a) the Commission has accepted liability for another injury or disease of the member or former member (other than because of the operation of section 24A of this Act); or

(b) the Commission is satisfied that:

(i) the member, or former member, 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 member's, or former member's, overall impairment constitutes at least 5 impairment points.