Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

MILITARY REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION (CONSEQUENTIAL AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) ACT 2004 - SECT 18

  (1)   This section applies if:

  (a)   a person is undertaking a rehabilitation program under the VEA or the DRCA (the old program ); and

  (b)   the rehabilitation authority for the person determines that the person is to undertake a rehabilitation program under the MRCA (the new program ).

  (2)   The person's rehabilitation authority may determine that the old program stops being provided under the VEA or the DRCA .

  (3)   If the authority does so, the approved program provider may (but does not have to) incorporate all or part of the old program in designing or providing the new program.

  (4)   If the approved program provider incorporates all or part of the old program, then the Commonwealth must pay all unpaid costs incurred in respect of the old program.