VETERANS' ENTITLEMENTS ACT 1986 - SECT 5T Lodgment of claims, applications, requests and documents

VETERANS' ENTITLEMENTS ACT 1986 - SECT 5T

  (1)   This section regulates the lodgment of all claims, applications, requests or other documents under this Act.

Note:   So far as concerns the lodgment of documents with the Veterans' Review Board, the Repatriation Medical Authority and the Specialist Medical Review Council, these matters are dealt with in Parts IX, XIA and XIB respectively.

  (2)   For the purposes of this Act, a claim, application, request or other document, other than a claim, application, request or other document that is approved by the Commission for electronic lodgment and that is transmitted electronically:

  (a)   is taken to have been lodged at an office of the Department in Australia only if the claim, application, request or other document is:

  (i)   lodged at a place approved by the Commission for the purposes of this subsection; or

  (ii)   delivered to a person approved by the Commission for the purposes of this subsection; and

  (b)   is taken to have been so lodged on the day on which it is received at that place or delivered to that person.

  (3)   For the purposes of this Act, a claim, application, request or other document that is approved by the Commission for electronic lodgment and that is transmitted electronically:

  (a)   is taken to have been lodged at an office of the Department in Australia only if the claim, application, request or document is transmitted electronically:

  (i)   in a manner approved by the Commission for the purposes of this subsection; and

  (ii)   to an electronic address approved by the Commission for the purposes of this subsection;

    in relation to claims, applications, requests or documents of that kind; and

  (b)   is taken to have been so lodged on the day on which it is so received at that electronic address.

  (4)   Claims, applications, requests and other documents transmitted electronically other than in a manner approved by the Commission or to an electronic address other than an electronic address approved by the Commission are not to be treated as having been validly lodged.

  (5)   The Commission may approve a place within or outside Australia for the purposes of subparagraph   (2)(a)(i).

  (6)   For the purposes of this Act, a claim, application, request or other like document is taken to have been made on the day on which, under subsection   (2) or (3), it is taken to have been lodged at an office of the Department in Australia.

  (7)   For the purposes of this Act, a notice or like document is taken to have been given on the day on which, under subsection   (2) or (3), it is taken to have been lodged at an office of the Department in Australia.

  (8)   If any provision of this Act requires any material to be lodged in support of a claim, application, request or other document, that supporting material:

  (a)   unless paragraph   (b) applies--may be lodged in accordance with this section in the same manner as the claim, application, request or other document to which it relates; and

  (b)   if the supporting material is not appropriate to be lodged in the same manner as the claim, application, request or other document to which it relates--may be lodged in such other manner contemplated by this section as the Commission approves.