Automatic payment of funeral compensation to estate of certain deceased members
268AA Automatic payment of funeral compensation to estate of certain deceased members
The Commonwealth is liable to pay, to the estate of a deceased member, compensation in respect of the deceased member’s funeral if, immediately before the deceased member died:
the member was being paid a pension under Part II or IV of the VEA at the rate specified in subsection 22(4) of that Act; or
the member was being paid a pension under Part II or IV of the VEA as a member to whom section 24 of that Act applied; or
the member was being paid a pension under Part II or IV of the VEA at a rate that had been increased under section 27 of that Act because of incapacity of a kind described in any of items 1 to 8 of the table in subsection 27(1) of that Act; or
the Commission was satisfied that the member had, before 1 July 2004, been made a prisoner of war at a time when the member was rendering operational service.
A claim for compensation under section 319 is not required.
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