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 2   Amendments commencing on 1 July 2013

Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

18   At the end of Part 2 of Chapter 4

Add:

83A Clean energy supplement for compensation under this Part

(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 Part

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

(a) weekly compensation under this Part (except this section):

(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) (of this Act) and offsetting described in subsection 13(4) of the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2004;

(b) before the day the person received lump sum compensation under this Part.

Rate of clean energy supplement

(3) The daily rate of the supplement is, subject to section 404, 1/14 of the CES 22(3) rate under the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 on the day.

Note: Section 404 provides for indexation of the daily rate for each indexation year starting on or after 1 July 2014.