VETERANS’ ENTITLEMENTS ACT 1986

Veterans’ Entitlements Income Exempt Lump Sum

Determination No. 4 of 2001

I, JEANETTE RICKETTS, delegate of the Repatriation Commission, hereby determine the “amount or one of a class of amounts” specified in Part 2 of the attached Schedule to this instrument to be an “exempt lump sum” in accordance with paragraph 5H(12)(c) of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986. 

June

Dated this      Twelvth    day of May 2001.

JEANETTE RICKETTS

Delegate

Veterans’ Entitlements Income Exempt Lump Sum Determination No. 4 of 2001

Schedule

Part 1: Preliminary and Interpretation

1.1  NAME OF DETERMINATION

This determination is the Veterans’ Entitlements Income Exempt Lump Sum Determination No.4 of 2001.

1.2                                      COMMENCEMENT

This determination commences on 23 April 2001.

1.3  DEFINITIONS

In this determination:

“Act” means the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.

“ex-gratia payment or payment” means a payment made by a Commonwealth or allied country.

“interned” means:

(a)   confined in a camp, building, prison or other place (including a vehicle); or

(b) restricted to residing within specified limits.

“World War 2” has the same meaning as it does in subsection 5B(1) of the Act.

Part 2:  Amount or class of amounts declared to be an exempt lump sum

Ex-gratia payments made by a Commonwealth or allied country to any of the following persons:

(a)  Surviving persons who were interned by the Japanese during World War 2;

(b)  Surviving civilians interned by the Japanese during World War 2;

(c)   Surviving widows or widowers of a deceased person who was interned by the Japanese during World War 2;

(d)  Surviving widows or widowers of a deceased civilian who was interned by the Japanese during World War 2.