Bills Digest No. 118 2001-02
Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1)
2002
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CONTENTS
Passage History
Purpose
Background
Main Provisions
Concluding Comments
Endnotes
Contact Officer & Copyright Details
Passage History
Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1)
2002
Date Introduced: 21 March 2002
House: House of Representatives
Portfolio: Veterans' Affairs
Commencement: Various commencement dates
apply to various schedules and items within schedules in the Bill.
The Table in Section 2 of the Bill (pages 1 to 8 of the Bill) sets
out the many and various commencement dates.
Purpose
To make minor legislative house
keeping amendments to the Veterans Entitlements Act 1986
(VEA) and related Acts necessary to ensure consistency of treatment
between Acts and to ensure the VEA is kept up-to-date with
amendments made to related Acts.
As outlined in the Second Reading Speech when
this Bill was presented to the House of Representatives on 21 March
2002, this Bill is a package of minor, technical and consequential
amendments to the VEA and related Acts.(1) The Bill is
almost entirely made up of a miscellany of legislative housekeeping
and this is manifest in the many and varied commencement dates for
various schedules and sections of the Bill, as set out in the Table
in section 2 of the Bill pages 1 to 8.
Costs or Savings and Numbers
Affected
The Explanatory Memorandum attached to the Bill
details for all schedules in this Bill that there are no financial
impacts. This indicates the numbers affected, beneficially or
adversely is probably nil or very small.
Schedule 1 proposes minor amendments to the
Social Security Act 1991 (SSA) arising from the
introduction of Income Support Supplement payable under the VEA
from 1994.
Schedule 2 proposes minor amendments to the
Social Security (Administration) Act 1999 arising from the
introduction of Income Support Supplement payable under the VEA
from 1994.
Schedules 3, 4 and
5 make minor amendments to other related Acts
arising from previous attempted amendments not being affected as
they were incorrectly worded or misdescribed.
Schedule 6 makes minor housekeeping amendments
to the VEA.
Schedule 7 makes minor amendments to the VEA
arising from previous attempted amendments not being affected as
they were incorrectly worded or misdescribed.
The minor amendments and legislative housekeeping measures
contained in this Bill have probably been on the "nice to do
when able to fit in with the parliamentary legislative
program" list for quite some time. This is reflected in that
some amendments refer to the introduction of Income Support
Supplement in 1994.
The amendments proposed in this Bill are minor legislative
housekeeping only.
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- Ms Dana Vale MP, Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment Bill
(No. 1) 2002, Second Reading Speech, House of Representatives,
Debates, 21 March 2002, p. 1963.
Peter Yeend
10 April 2002
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