Gas Regulator Levies Act, 2002
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Military Veterans Act, 2011 (Act No. 18 of 2011)5. Benefits relating to military veterans |
| (1) | The benefits relating to a military veteran are the following: |
| (a) | Compensation to military veterans who sustained disabling injuries or severe psychological and neuro-psychiatric trauma or who suffer from a terminal disease resulting from their participation in military activities; |
| (b) | dedicated counselling and treatment to military veterans who suffer from serious mental illness, post-traumatic stress disorder or related conditions; |
| (c) | honouring and memorialising fallen military veterans; |
| (d) | education, training and skills development; |
| (e) | facilitation of employment placement; |
| (f) | facilitation of or advice on business opportunities; |
| (g) | subsidisation or provisioning of public transport; |
| (h) | pension; |
| (i) | access to health care; |
| (j) | housing; and |
| (k) | burial support. |
| (2) | Subsection (1)(b), (d) and (h) also applies to a dependant of a military veteran. |
(3)
| (a) | The Minister has the responsibility, subject to available resources and any regulation that may be prescribed in this regard, to ensure that benefits are paid or provided to military veterans, either through the Department or through other organs of state. |
(b)
| (i) | All organs of state that are responsible for the payment or provisioning of benefits to military veterans are obliged to cooperate with the Minister and the Department in respect of the payment or provisioning of those benefits. |
| (ii) | The Director-General may, from funds appropriated by Parliament for the purpose, transfer funds to organs of state or other institutions that pay or provide benefits to military veterans. |
