Commonwealth Numbered Acts

VETERANS' AFFAIRS (1994-95 BUDGET MEASURES) LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1994 No. 164 of 1994 - SECT 28

28. After section 98A of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Funeral benefits-automatic grant to estate of certain deceased veterans

"98B.(1) The Commission is to grant a benefit ('funeral benefit') to the
estate of a deceased veteran if, immediately before the veteran died:

   (a)  he or she was being paid a pension under Part II at a rate that had
        been increased under subsection 22(4); or

   (b)  he or she was being paid a pension under Part II as a veteran to whom
        section 24 applied; or

   (c)  he or she was being paid a pension under Part II at a rate that had
        been increased under section 27 because the veteran was incapacitated
        from a war-caused injury or a war-caused disease of a kind described
        in any of items 1 to 8 of the Table in subsection 27(1); or

   (d)  the Commission was satisfied that the veteran had been made a prisoner
        of war at a time when the veteran was rendering operational service.



"(2) The amount of the funeral benefit is $550.".