Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY AND VETERANS' AFFAIRS LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1988 No. 135, 1988 - SECT 31

31. (1) Where, immediately before 3 November 1988, a person was in receipt of
rent assistance under or because of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 in
respect of payments for services provided in a retirement village, then,
subject to this section, from 12 June 1989, the person shall be taken to be
entitled to receive amounts by way of rent assistance under that Act that are
not less than the amounts that the person would have received by way of rent
assistance if the amendments made by paragraphs 25 (b) (to the extent that it
inserts a definition of "ineligible property owner" in subsection 35 (1) of
that Act) and 29 (1) (a) of this Act had not been made.

(2) Where:

   (a)  immediately after 12 June 1989, a person was in receipt of rent
        assistance because of the operation of subsection 19 (1) of this Act;

   (b)  after 12 June 1989, the person became entitled to be paid a pension
        under Part III of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986; and

   (c)  subsection 19 (1) of this Act had not ceased to apply to that person
        until the person became entitled as mentioned in paragraph (b); then,
        subject to this section, from the day when the person became entitled
        as mentioned in paragraph (b), the person shall be taken to be
        entitled to receive amounts by way of rent assistance under the
        Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 that are not less than the amounts
        that the person would have received by way of rent assistance if the
        amendments made by paragraphs 25 (b) (to the
extent that it inserts a definition of "ineligible property owner" in
subsection 35 (1) of that Act) and 29 (1) (a) of this Act had not been made.

(3) Subsection (1) or (2) ceases to apply to a person whose principal home was
in a retirement village immediately before 3 November 1988:

   (a)  when the person ceases to be entitled to be paid any pension under
        Part III of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986; or

   (b)  when the person's principal home ceases to be in that retirement
        village; and neither subsection (1) nor subsection (2) again applies
        to a person after it has ceased to apply to the person because of this
        subsection. Commencement: 12 June 1989