AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS’ REPATRIATION.
No. 12 of 1937.
An Act to
amend sections forty-five ad,
forty-five ae, forty-five ag, forty-five an and forty-five ao
of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Act 1920–1936.
[Assented to 2nd September, 1937.
BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent
Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of
Australia, as follows:—
Short
title and citation.
1.—(1.) This
Act may be cited as the Australian
Soldiers’ Repatriation Act 1937.
(2.) The Australian
Soldiers’ Repatriation Act 1920–1936 is in this Act referred to as the
Principal Act.
(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act,
may be cited as the Australian Soldiers’
Repatriation Act 1920–1937.
Commencement.
2.—(1.) Sections
three, four, five and seven of this Act shall come into operation on the
sixteenth day of September, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven.
(2.) Section
six of this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the tenth day of
March, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven.
Grant
of service pensions.
3.Section
forty-five ad of the Principal Act
is amended by omitting the word “thirty-eight” and inserting in its stead the
word “Forty”.
Service
pension in respect of a member permanently unemployable or suffering from
pulmonary tuberculosis.
4. Section
forty-five ae of the Principal Act
is amended—
(a)by omitting from sub-section (1.) the
word “Thirty-eight” and inserting in its stead the word “Forty”; and
(b)by omitting from that sub-section the
word “Thirty-two” (wherever occurring) and inserting in its stead the word “Thirty-four”.
Limit
of service pension and income.
5.Section
forty-five ag of the Principal Act
is amended by omitting from sub-section (1.) the words “Eighty-one pounds
eighteen shillings” and inserting in their stead the words “Eighty-four pounds
ten shillings”.
Pension
to widow and children of service pensioner.
6. Section
forty-five an of the Principal Act
is amended by omitting the words “all such pensions” and inserting in their
stead the words “her pension”.
Limit
of pension where pensioner in a public institution.
7.