Bill
Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures No. 1) Bill 2025
passed, as at 2025-12-04. Veterans' Affairs portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Veterans' Affairs
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2025-10-29
- second reading — 2025-10-29
- second reading — 2025-11-05
- other — 2025-11-05
- other — 2025-11-26
- second reading — 2025-11-26
- second reading — 2025-11-26
- third reading — 2025-11-26
- introduced — 2025-11-27
- second reading — 2025-11-27
- second reading — 2025-11-27
- third reading — 2025-11-27
- passed — 2025-11-27
- royal assent — 2025-12-04
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2025-10-29.
This bill would make minor corrections to four veterans' compensation laws to match the government's original policy intent.
It would give the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission power to make rules before July 2026 and preserve some treatment-related instruments under the Veterans' Entitlements Act as if they were made under the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act.
The bill also clarifies that funeral compensation claims are decided under the act they were lodged under and fixes the review path for certain determinations made before 21 April 2025.
- Gives the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission pre-commencement powers to make instruments before 1 July 2026.
- Keeps treatment-related instruments made under the Veterans' Entitlements Act operating as if they were made under the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act.
- Confirms that funeral compensation claims are decided under the act under which they were lodged.
- Clarifies the review pathway for claimants with original determinations under the DRCA made before 21 April 2025.
Veterans and their families who claim compensation or rehabilitation under the MRCA, VEA or DRCA.
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