Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment Regulations 2006 (No. 1)1

Select Legislative Instrument 2006 No. 83

I, PROFESSOR MARIE BASHIR, AC, CVO, Administrator of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004.

Dated 26 April 2006

MARIE BASHIR

Administrator

By Her Excellency’s Command

BRUCE BILLSON

Minister for Veterans’ Affairs

1 Name of Regulations

  These Regulations are the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment Regulations 2006 (No. 1).

2 Commencement

  These Regulations commence on the day after they are registered.

3 Amendment of Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Regulations 2004

  Schedule 1 amends the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Regulations 2004.

Schedule 1 Amendment

(regulation 3)

 

[1] After Part 5

insert

Part 6 Miscellaneous

21 Provision of Information by the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission

  For item 3 of the table in subsection 409 (2) of the Act, the purposes mentioned in an item in the following table are specified for the person or agency specified in the item.

 

Item

Person or agency

Purpose

1

 (a) An employee of the Defence Department; or

 (b) A contractor of the Defence Department; or

 (c) A service chief

 (a) Monitoring or reporting of the Defence Force’s Occupational Health and Safety performance; or

 (b) Monitoring the cost to the Commonwealth of a service injury or a service disease

Note   Defence Department, Defence Force, service chief, service disease and service injury are defined in section 5 of the Act.

Note

1. All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See www.frli.gov.au.