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VETERANS' ENTITLEMENTS ACT 1986 - SECT 115A Definitions

VETERANS' ENTITLEMENTS ACT 1986 - SECT 115A

Definitions

  (1)   In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears:

"CPI indexation day" means:

  (a)   for the purposes of section   115D--the day that begins each relevant period within the meaning of that term in section   198; and

  (b)   for the purposes of section   115G--a day that is an indexation day for the maximum basic rate under subsection   59B(1).

"member of a Peacekeeping Force" has the same meaning as in subsection   68(1).

"member of the Forces" has the same meaning as in subsection   68(1).

"unaffected pension rate" means the rate of pension that a veteran would have received if the veteran had not undertaken a vocational rehabilitation program under the Veterans' Vocational Rehabilitation Scheme.

"unemployment" includes:

  (a)   retirement from remunerative work; and

  (b)   undertaking less than 16 hours of remunerative work in a pension period;

but does not include any period of paid leave.

"veteran" means:

  (a)   a person:

  (i)   who is, because of section   7, taken to have rendered eligible war service; or

  (ii)   in respect of whom a pension is payable under subsection   13(6); or

  (iii)   who satisfies subsection   37(3); or

  (b)   a member of the Forces; or

  (c)   a member of a Peacekeeping Force.

"work and pension income rate" of a veteran, in relation to a pension period, has the meaning given by subsections   (2) and (3).

Veteran to whom section   23 applies

  (2)   If section   115D applies to a veteran because of subsection   115D(1), then the work and pension income rate of the veteran for a pension period is worked out using the following formula:

Start formula open square bracket open round bracket Number of hours of remunerative work of the veteran in that pension period minus 40 close square bracket times Average hourly rate of the veteran's salary, wages and earnings from remunerative work in that pension period close square bracket plus Rate of pension paid to the veteran under Part II or IV for that pension period end formula

Veteran to whom section   24 applies

  (3)   If section   115D applies to a veteran because of subsection   115D(1A), then the work and pension income rate of the veteran for a pension period is worked out using the following formula:

Start formula open square bracket open round bracket Number of hours of remunerative work of the veteran in that pension period minus 16 close round bracket times Average hourly rate of the veteran's salary, wages and earnings from remunerative work in that pension period close square bracket plus Rate of pension paid to the veteran under Part II or IV for that pension period end formula

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