Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (Single Treatment Pathway) Act 2019 (122 of 2019)

Schedule 1   Single treatment pathway

Part 3   Application and transitional provisions

32   Payments for certain treatment provided before commencement

(1) This item applies if:

(a) the Commonwealth paid an amount to a person for providing treatment or other services under Chapter 6 of the MRCA before the commencement of this Schedule; and

(b) that amount:

(i) was not payable to the person under that Chapter at that time; but

(ii) would have been payable under that Chapter if the amendments made by this Schedule had been in force at that time.

(2) The Commonwealth may recover the amount already paid to the person as a debt.

(3) The person is entitled, on the commencement of this Schedule, to be paid an amount equal to the amount already paid to the person by the Commonwealth.

(4) The Commonwealth may set off the amount already paid to the person against the amount that the person is entitled to be paid.

(5) Payments of amounts under subitem (3) are taken, for the purposes of section 423 of the MRCA, to be payments for treatment and other services provided under Chapter 6 of that Act.