Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

For the purposes of this Part, the Commission may:

establish, operate and maintain hospitals or other institutions for the care and welfare of persons eligible to be provided with treatment under this Part;

enter into arrangements with the appropriate authority of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory for the provision, at a hospital or other institution operated by the Commonwealth, the State or the Government of the Territory, as the case may be, of care and welfare for persons eligible to be provided with treatment under this Part; and

enter into arrangements with the body (other than an authority referred to in paragraph (b)) operating a hospital or other institution for the provision, at that hospital or institution, of care and welfare for persons eligible to be provided with treatment under this Part.

In subsection (1), a reference to a hospital or other institution is to be read as including a reference to a home, a hostel, a medical centre, an out‑patient clinic and a rehabilitation or training establishment.