Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006 (Participants in British Nuclear Tests – Extension of Eligibility) Instrument 2012 (Cth)

Australian Government

Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006

Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006 (Participants in British Nuclear Tests – Extension of Eligibility) Instrument 2012 Instrument No. R8/2012

The Repatriation Commission, pursuant to subsection 5(3D) of the Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006 (the Act), specifies, for the purposes of subsection 5(3C) of the Act, the requirements a person must satisfy in order to be a nuclear test participant.

Dated this 24th day of January 2012

Ian Campbell Shane Carmody Major General Mark Kelly AO DSC

…………………………………………………………………………………………. IAN CAMPBELL SHANE CARMODY Major General Mark Kelly PSM AO DSC PRESIDENT DEPUTY PRESIDENT COMMISSIONER

1. Name of Instrument

This instrument is the Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006 (Participants in British Nuclear Tests – Extension of Eligibility) Instrument 2012

2. Commencement

This instrument commences on the day after the day it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.

Note: Item 5 of Schedule 1 to the Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (Participants in British Nuclear Tests) Act 2011 provides that the Repatriation Commission may approve treatment under the Act for an eligible person where it was provided before this instrument took effect, but on or after 19 June 2006, provided the person made a claim for a determination that the person is an eligible person and the claim was made before this instrument took effect or within 6 months after the instrument took effect, and the Repatriation Commission determines the person is an eligible person because the person satisfies the requirements in this instrument.