Air Force (War Financial) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1947. No..

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE AIR FORCE ACT 1923-1941.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Air Force Act 1923-1941.

Dated this Thirtieth day of April, 1947.

W.J. McKell

Governor- General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Air.

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Amendments of the Air Force (War Financial) Regulations.

Deferred pay.

1. Regulation 8 of the Air Force (War Financial) Regulations is amended by omitting from the second proviso to sub-regulation (11.) the words “of the Air Board” and inserting in their stead the words “as the Air Board”.

Particulars of dependants.

2. Regulation 42 of the Air Force (War Financial) Regulations is amended by inserting, after sub-regulation (2.), the following sub-regulation:—

“(2a.) Where dependants allowance is being paid to any person and the dependant in respect of whom the allowance is being paid ceases to be dependent upon the member concerned or any change occurs in the degree of dependence or, in the case of a wife or separated wife, any change in her matrimonial relationship to the member occurs which is likely to affect the degree of her dependence, the rate of the allowance or the continuation of the allowance, that person shall forthwith notify the prescribed authority in writing of the change of circumstances.”.

Recovery of amounts of allotments and dependants allowances improperly obtained.

3. After regulation 44 of the Air Force (War Financial) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

“44a.—(1.) Where, in consequence of a failure to furnish to a prescribed authority any information required to be furnished by or under regulation 42 of these Regulations or in consequence of any false statement, any amount has been paid by way of allotment or

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1947.

  Statutory Rules 1943, No. 93, as amended by Statutory Rules 1944, No. 134; and 1946, Nos. 33 and 163.

797.—Price 3d. 13/28.3.1947.

 

dependants allowance under these Regulations which would not have been paid but for that failure or false statement, an amount equal to the amount so paid may be deducted from—

(a) any allotment or dependants allowance which is or becomes payable to that person; or

(b) any pay (including deferred pay) which is or becomes due or payable to the member concerned, if, in the opinion of a prescribed authority, the true circumstances concerning which information was not furnished or a false statement was made were known, or, by the exercise of reasonable diligence, would have been known to the member.

(2.) The provisions of this regulation shall be in addition to and not in derogation of the provisions of the last preceding regulation.”.

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.