Veterans' Entitlements (Means Test Treatment of Private Companies—Excluded Companies) Declaration 2025 The Repatriation Commission makes the following instrument. Dated 19 February 2025 The Seal of the Repatriation Commission was affixed to this instrument in the presence of: Alison Frame Mark Brewer AM CSC and Bar President Deputy President Gwen Cherne Kahlil Fegan DSC AM Commissioner Commissioner Part 1 Preliminary 1 Name This instrument is the Veterans' Entitlements (Means Test Treatment of Private Companies—Excluded Companies) Declaration 2025. 2 Commencement This instrument commences on the day after the day it is registered. 3 Authority This instrument is made under subsection 52ZZA(5) of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986. 3A Repeal Schedule 11 to the Veterans' Affairs (Legislative Instrument Re-making Exercise) Instrument 2014 is repealed. 4 Purpose This Declaration specifies a class of companies that are excluded companies for section 52ZZA of the Act. 5 Definitions In this instrument: Act means the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986. community purpose means a purpose that is intended to benefit primarily the members of a particular community or group. government body means the following kinds of body: (a) a department or agency of the Commonwealth; (b) a department or agency of a State or Territory; (c) a municipal corporation or other local government body; (d) a body corporate in which the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory body holds a controlling interest. income means income within the ordinary meaning of that expression. indigenous-held land has the same meaning as in section 4B of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Act 2005. Part 2 Specified class of companies 6 Companies with community purpose are excluded companies (1) Each company that meets the requirements in subsection (2) is an excluded company for section 52ZZA of the Act. (2) The company must have the sole dominant purpose of: (a) receiving, managing or distributing property transferred directly to it, or through an interposed entity, by a government body for a community purpose; or (b) holding, managing or disposing of indigenous-held land, for a community purpose; or (c) receiving, managing or distributing income that: (i) has been generated from indigenous-held land; and (ii) is applied for a community purpose.