Treatment Benefits (Special Access) (Claims, Applications and Lodgements Procedures) Determination 2019 (Cth)

Australian Government

Treatment Benefits (Special Access) (Claims, Applications and Lodgements Procedures) Determination 2019

Instrument 2019 No. S25

I, Elizabeth Cosson, Secretary of the Department of Veterans' Affairs, make the following instrument under subsection 8(2) of the Treatment Benefits (Special Access) Act 2019.

Dated this 5th of June 2019

Elizabeth Cosson

ELIZABETH COSSON Secretary of the Department of Veterans' Affairs

1 Name

This instrument is the Treatment Benefits (Special Access) (Claims, Applications and Lodgements Procedures) Determination 2019.

2 Commencement

This instrument commences on the day on which it is made.

3 Authority

This instrument is made under subsection 8(2) of the Treatment Benefits (Special Access) Act 2019.

4 Definitions

In this instrument:

Act means the Treatment Benefits (Special Access) Act 2019.

Department means the Australian Government Department of Veterans' Affairs.

5 Procedures for making claims or applications or giving other documents

(1) A claim, application or other document under the Act:

(a) is to be in writing; and

(b) is to be made or given, as the case requires, by lodging it at an office of the Department in Australia.

(2) Section 5T of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 is taken to apply to the lodgement of a claim, application or other document under the Treatment Benefits (Special Access) Act 2019 as if it were a claim, application or other document that could be made or given under the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986.

Note 1: Section 5T of the Veterans' Entitlements Act regulates the lodgement of claims, applications and other documents under that Act, and provides for physical and electronic lodgements.