Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

VETERANS' ENTITLEMENTS ACT 1986 - SECT 57H

             (1)  When the Commission, upon review of a decision under this Division:

                     (a)  grants a claim for a qualifying service determination, a service pension or income support supplement; or

                     (b)  sets aside a decision to cancel or suspend a service pension or income support supplement;

the Commission may pay to the person who requested the review an amount in respect of expenses incurred by the person in providing for the production of certificates, reports or other documents from a medical practitioner, or from a hospital or similar institution in which he or she had received medical treatment.

             (2)  Subsection (1) applies only in relation to certificates, reports or documents reasonably used for the purposes of the review.

             (3)  The amount that may be paid under subsection (1) is to be calculated in accordance with the scale approved by the Commission for the purposes of subsection 19(8).