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

15   At the end of Division 2 of Part 2 of Chapter 5

Add:

238A Clean energy supplement for compensation for wholly dependent partners of deceased members

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

(a) the condition in subsection (2) is met for the day; and

(b) the person is residing 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.

Condition - receipt of compensation under this Division

(2) The condition is that either or both of the following apply:

(a) weekly compensation under this Division (except this section) either:

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

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

(b) before the day the person received lump sum compensation under this Division and subsection 388(6) has not applied to the person before the day.

Rate of clean energy supplement

(3) The daily rate of the supplement is 1/14 of the CES 30(1) rate under the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 on the day.