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VETERANS' AFFAIRS LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 78 of 1987 - SECT 83

83. (1) Where a person would, at any time on or after 22 May 1986 and before
the commencement of this section, have been required to notify the Secretary
of an occurrence or event if subsection 59 (2) of this Act had come into
operation on 22 May 1986, the person shall notify the Department of that
occurrence or event, in writing, within 28 days after the commencement of this
section.
Penalty: $40.

(2) Subsections 98A (8), (9) and (10) of the Repatriation Act 1920, in their
application by virtue of subsection 45 (3) of the Veterans' Entitlements
(Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 1986, extend to
occurrences and events that occurred before the commencement of this section
but a person shall not be convicted, in respect of failure to notify an
occurrence or event that so occurred, of an offence against subsection 98A
(8), (9) or (10), as the case may be, of the Repatriation Act 1920 and also of
an offence against subsection (1) of this section.

(3) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person in respect of an occurrence or
event if the person had notified the Secretary of that occurrence or event
before the commencement of this section.

(4) Subsection 45 (3) of the Veterans' Entitlements (Transitional Provisions
and Consequential Amendments) Act 1986 applies, on and after the commencement
of this section, as if the reference in that subsection to the requirements of
subsection 98A (8), (9) or (10) of the Repatriation Act 1920 included a
reference to the requirements of subsection (1) of this section.