Commonwealth Numbered Acts

VETERANS' AFFAIRS (1994-95 BUDGET MEASURES) LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1994 No. 164 of 1994 - SECT 18

18. Section 45V of the Principal Act is amended:
(a) by inserting in paragraph (1)(a) "who is not permanently blind" after

"person";

   (b)  by omitting from paragraph (1)(b) "the remote area allowance Module
        or";

   (c)  by adding at the end of paragraph (1)(c) "or having regard to the
        person's ceiling rate";

   (d)  by omitting from paragraph (1)(d) "the remote area allowance Module
        or";

   (e)  by omitting paragraph (1)(e);
(f) by omitting from paragraph (1)(f) "finally" and substituting "then";

   (g)  by omitting subsections (2) and (3) and substituting the following
        subsections:



"(2) If:

   (a)  the rate of income support supplement applicable to a person who is
        not permanently blind is worked out by using the Income Support
        Supplement Rate Calculator Where There Are No Dependent Children at
        the end of section 45X; and

   (b)  the maximum basic rate applicable to the person is increased by an
        amount worked out under the rent assistance Module of the Rate
        Calculator; and

   (c)  an amount of that income support supplement is to be reduced under
        section 59T (compensation recovery); the reduction is to be applied:

   (d)  first, to that part of the amount that does not include the increase
        under the rent assistance Module; and

   (c)  then, to the amount of the increase under the rent assistance Module.



"(3) If:

   (a)  the rate of income support supplement applicable to a person who is
        permanently blind is worked out by using the Income Support Supplement
        Rate Calculator Where There Are No Dependent Children at the end of
        section 45X; and

   (b)  the person would be eligible to have rent assistance added to his or
        her maximum basic rate under point 45X-D2 if the person were not blind
        (i.e. if the rate of the person's income support supplement were
        calculated using the Method statement set out in point 45X-B1 instead
        of that set out in point 45X-B2); the person's ceiling rate or
        adjusted ceiling rate (as the case may be) is taken to include an
        amount for rent assistance worked out under Module D of the Rate
        Calculator.".