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When SOPs are determined the RMA Secretariat distributes them to ex-service
organisations; individual ex-service persons and their representatives;
Department of Veterans’ Affairs; Veterans’ Review Board; and
the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. The SOPs are also issued to the
Senate Standing Committee on Regulations and Ordinances and the Tabling
Officers in both Houses of Federal Parliament. This currently represents
issuing in excess of 475 hard copies, 120 disk copies and 20 electronic
copies each time SOPs are determined. Since the introduction of the RMA
Website, a growing number of individuals and/or organisations are receiving
their information via this medium.
Ad-hoc requests are also received from ex-service persons to assist them
in preparing disability claims for submission to the Department of Veterans’
Affairs. However, given the role of the RMA as an expert medical-scientific
panel to determine SOPs on the basis of “sound medical-scientific
evidence”, such requests have been directed to the relevant State
Office of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs.
This page last updated 13
October 2000.
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