Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (Budget Measures) Act 2017 (59 of 2017)
Schedule 1 Australian participants in British nuclear tests and British Commonwealth Occupation Force
Part 1 Main amendments
Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006
14 At the end of Part 5
Add:
Division 5 - Recovery of cost of treatment
48A Recovery of cost of treatment
Section 93 of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 applies to the provision of treatment under this Act in a corresponding way to the way that section applies to the provision of treatment under Part V of that Act.
Division 6 - Recovery of overpayments of pharmaceutical supplement
48B Recovery of overpayments of pharmaceutical supplement
(1) This section applies if a person has been paid an amount of pharmaceutical supplement under Part 3A that should not have been paid.
(2) The amount is recoverable, in a court of competent jurisdiction, as a debt due to the Commonwealth from:
(a) the person; or
(b) the estate of that person.
(3) The amount may be deducted from an amount that is payable to the person under this Act.