Veterans' Entitlements (Health and Wellbeing Program) Determination 2025 (Cth)

Veterans' Entitlements (Health and Wellbeing Program) Determination 2025 I, Luke Brown, a delegate of the Repatriation Commission, make the following instrument. Dated 17th February 2025

Luke Brown First Assistant Secretary, Policy Division Department of Veterans' Affairs

Part 1—Preliminary

1 Name This instrument is the Veterans' Entitlements (Health and Wellbeing Program) Determination 2025.

2 Commencement This instrument commences on the day after the day it is registered.

3 Authority This instrument is made under subsections 88A(1) and (2) of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986.

4 Definitions Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act, including the following: (a) Commission (see section 5A); (b) operational service (see sections 6 to 6F); (c) peacekeeping service (see subsection 68(1)); (d) veteran (see paragraph 80(2)(c)). In this instrument: health and wellbeing program means a 12-month program: (a) to improve or maintain an individual's physical or mental health or social wellbeing; and (b) that includes: (i) regular fitness training supervised by appropriately qualified individuals; and (ii) education about cardiovascular health; and (c) run by or for the Commission.

5 Schedules Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Part 2—Specified classes and kind of treatment

6 Veterans in specified class eligible for health and wellbeing program (1) For paragraph 88A(1)(a) of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986, a specified class is a class made up of veterans: (a) who have rendered: (i) operational service; or (ii) peacekeeping service; and (b) if any of the veterans has participated in a health and wellbeing program—who the Commission determines should participate in the program again in all the circumstances. (2) A health and wellbeing program is specified as a kind of treatment for a veteran in the specified class.