Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

VETERANS' ENTITLEMENTS ACT 1986 - SECT 196Z

             (1)  If:

                     (a)  a person or organisation asks the Repatriation Medical Authority under section 196E to review:

                              (i)  some or all of the contents of a Statement of Principles in respect of a particular kind of injury, disease or death; or

                             (ii)  its decision not to make a Statement of Principles in respect of a particular kind of injury, disease or death; and

                     (b)  the Authority refuses under subsection 196C(4) to carry out an investigation in respect of that kind of injury, disease or death;

the person or organisation may, within 3 months, ask the Review Council to review the decision of the Authority not to carry out the investigation.

             (2)  The request must:

                     (a)  be in a form approved by the Review Council; and

                     (b)  state the grounds on which the review is sought; and

                     (c)  be accompanied by any submission that the person or organisation wishes to submit in support of those grounds; and

                     (d)  be lodged at an office of the Department in Australia in accordance with section 5T.

          (2A)  A request lodged in accordance with section 5T is taken to have been made on a day determined under that section.

             (3)  The Secretary must send the request and any accompanying material to the Review Council, and notify the Repatriation Medical Authority of the request, within 28 days.