Veterans' Entitlements, Treatment and Support (Simplification and Harmonisation) Act 2025 (17 of 2025)

Schedule 1   Single ongoing Act main amendments

Part 3   Other amendments

Division 1   Permanent impairment

Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004
79   At the end of section 68

Add:

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(b), the date determined must be the later of:

(a) the date on which a claim was made under section 319 for acceptance of liability for the compensable condition; and

(b) the date on which both of the following were first satisfied, as estimated by a medical practitioner who has examined the person:

(i) the impairment suffered by the person as a result of the compensable condition became likely to continue indefinitely;

(ii) the person's compensable condition stabilised.


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