Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

The payment of an amount to a person under the Territories Stolen Generations Redress Scheme does not affect the person’s eligibility for, or entitlement to, any pension, benefit, payment or service (however described) under a law of the Commonwealth.

Without limiting subsection (1), a payment under the Territories Stolen Generations Redress Scheme is not compensation or damages for the purposes of:

However, subsections (1) and (2) do not apply for the purposes of determining the value of a person’s assets under:

A payment under the Territories Stolen Generations Redress Scheme is absolutely inalienable, whether by way of, or in consequence of, sale, assignment, charge, execution, bankruptcy or otherwise.

Subsections (1) to (4) have effect despite anything in a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory (whether passed or made before or after the commencement of this section) unless, in the case of a law of the Commonwealth, the law expressly provides otherwise.

The regulations may prescribe laws of the Commonwealth to which one or more of subsections (1), (2) and (3) do not apply.