Coat of Arms of the Commonwealth of Australia

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 

This instrument is the Veterans’ Entitlements (Health and Wellbeing Program) Determination 2025.

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

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

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.

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.


 (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.

 (1) For paragraph 88A(1)(d) of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986, a specified class is a class made up of members:

 (a) who are entitled to be provided treatment under the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004, Part 3 because of that Act, section 279; and

 (b) if any of the members 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 member in the specified class.

 (3) In this section:

member—see the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004, subsection 5(1).


1  Section 4, definition of firefighter

omit

2  Section 4

insert

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.

Point Cook firefighter means a person who, at the RAAF Base Point Cook between 1 January 1957 and 31 December 1986:

 (a) served as a firefighter; or

 (b) participated in a firefighter training course; or

 (c) was an instructor of a firefighter training course.

3  Section 5

substitute

 (1) For paragraph 88A(1)(d) of the Act, a specified class is made up of:

 (a) Point Cook firefighters; and

 (b) if any of the firefighters has participated in a health and wellbeing program—the firefighters who the Commission determines should participate in the program again in all the circumstances.

 (2) Treatment of the following kinds is specified for a person in the class of people:

 (a) a health and wellbeing program;

 (b) colorectal cancer screening, by:

 (i) a faecal occult blood test; or

 (ii) a colonoscopy;

 (c) melanoma screening, by any 1 or more of the following means:

 (i) an examination by a general medical practitioner;

 (ii) dermoscopy or dermatoscopy;

 (iii) total body digital photography.