Clean Energy (Household Assistance Amendments) Act 2011 (141 of 2011)

Schedule 4   Clean energy payments under the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act

Part 2   Clean energy supplements

Division 1   Amendments commencing on 20 March 2013

Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

14   After section 209

Insert:

209A Clean energy supplement for Special Rate Disability Pension

(1) The Commonwealth is liable to pay a clean energy supplement to a person for a day if:

(a) Special Rate Disability Pension:

(i) is payable to the person for the day; or

(ii) would be payable to the person for the day apart from section 204 and paragraph 398(3)(b); and

(b) the person resides in Australia on the day; and

(c) on the day the person either:

(i) is in Australia; or

(ii) is temporarily absent from Australia and has been so for a continuous period not exceeding 13 weeks.

Note: Section 424L may affect the person's entitlement to the clean energy supplement.

(2) The daily rate of the supplement is 1/14 of the CES 24(4) rate under the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 on the day.