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

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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.