Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

MILITARY REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION ACT 2004 - SECT 40

             (1)  This section applies if a person's rehabilitation authority (the original rehabilitation authority ) changes to another rehabilitation authority (the new rehabilitation authority ) because of section 39.

             (2)  If:

                     (a)  under subsection 44(2), the person requests the original rehabilitation authority to carry out an assessment of the person's capacity for rehabilitation; and

                     (b)  the rehabilitation authority changes before the assessment begins;

the person's request is taken to have been made to the new rehabilitation authority.

             (3)  A determination of the original rehabilitation authority that is in force immediately before the rehabilitation authority changes has effect as a determination of the new rehabilitation authority. The new rehabilitation authority is responsible for giving effect to the determination.