At Step 3 the delegate is calculating the compensation that would notionally be payable under the MRCA for the VEA and DRCA accepted conditions referred to in Step 1(b).
Step 3 asks the delegate to use GARP M to work out the amount of compensation that would be payable under the MRCA for the VEA and DRCA accepted conditions referred to in Step 1 as at the date of the MRCA determination.
Note: Please see the Compensation Claims Procedures manual for more information about the procedural aspects of step 3.
Relevant definitions
DRCA accepted condition means: ‘in relation to a person, means the person’s injury for which there is liability to pay compensation under the DRCA’.
- Note that the definition of injury includes disease under DRCA
VEA accepted condition means: ‘in relation to a person, means the person’s incapacity from an injury or disease that the Repatriation Commission has determined under section 19 of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986 (including as affected by section 71 of that Act) entitles the person to be granted a pension’.