Australian Government
 
Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006
 
 
Treatment Principles ((Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests) 2006 – Removal of Prior Approval under the Rehabilitation Appliances Program) Instrument 2007
 
Instrument No. R19/2007
The Repatriation Commission, pursuant to subsection 16(6) of the Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006, varies the Treatment Principles (Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests) 2006 (Instrument No. R30 of 2006), in accordance with the Schedule.
 
 
Dated this              16th   day of                   July             2007
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
MARK SULLIVAN        ED KILLESTEYN               BILL ROLFE
   PRESIDENT           DEPUTY PRESIDENT      COMMISSIONER
 
 
REPATRIATION COMMISSION
 
 
 
 
 
 
[1] Name of Instrument
 
This Instrument is the Treatment Principles ((Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests) 2006 – Removal of Prior Approval under the Rehabilitation Appliances Program) Instrument 2007.
 
[2] Commencement
 
This Instrument commences on the day after it is
registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.
 
[3] Variation of the Treatment Principles
 
         The Schedule varies the Treatment Principles.
 
 
Schedule                        Variations
 
 
[1] Paragraph 3.2.1(r)
 
Omit the paragraph, substitute:
 
          (r) provision of rehabilitation appliances specified as requiring prior approval in or under Part 11;
 
 
[2] Paragraph 3.2.1(t)
 
Omit the paragraph, substitute:
 
          (t) repair of a rehabilitation appliance specified as requiring prior approval in or under Part 11;
 
 
 
[3] Paragraph 11.2.2
 
Omit the paragraph, substitute:
 
11.2A Prior Approval
 
11.2A.1         If under this Part or under the documents entitled, respectively, the “RAP National Schedule of Equipment” in force on 1 July 2007 and the "Rehabilitation Appliances Program (RAP) National Guidelines" in force on 1 July 2007, the Commission's prior approval is required for the supply of a rehabilitation appliance to an entitled person or the alteration to, replacement or repair of a rehabilitation appliance, then the Commission is not to accept financial liability for the supply, alteration, replacement or repair, as the case may be, unless it has granted that prior approval.
 
Note: in granting prior approval the Commission must consider the matters in paragraph 3.2.2.