Commonwealth Numbered Acts

VETERANS' AFFAIRS LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1992 No. 228 of 1992 - SECT 7

7. Section 17A of the Principal Act is amended:

   (a)  by inserting after subsection (1) the following subsections:

"(1A) If:

   (a)  an Australian mariner has died or dies; and

   (b)  the mariner's death was not a direct result of the mariner's having
        sustained a war injury; and

   (c)  the mariner was a prisoner of war in the course of employment as an
        Australian mariner; the dependants of the mariner are, subject to this
        Act, entitled to receive the pensions that would have been payable to
        them if the mariner's death had been a direct result of having
        sustained a war injury.

"(1B) The date of commencement of a pension payable under subsection (1A) is
not to be earlier than 1 January 1993.";
(b) by inserting in subsection (2) "or (1A)" after "subsection (1)".