AUSTRALIAN
SOLDIERS’ REPATRIATION (No. 2).
No. 96 of 1940.
An Act to amend
sections forty-five ad, forty-five
ae, forty-five ag and forty-five ao of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Act 1920-1940.
[Assented
to 17th December, 1940.]
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 (No. 2) 1940.
(2.) Section one of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Act 1940 is amended by omitting
sub-section (3.).
(3.) The Australian
Soldiers’ Repatriation Act 1920-1938, as amended by the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Act 1940,
is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
(4.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may
be cited as the Australian Soldiers’
Repatriation Act 1920-1940.
Commencement.
2.This Act shall come into operation on the second day
of January, One thousand nine hundred and forty-one..
Grant
of service pensions.
3. Section forty-five ad
of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the word “Forty” and inserting in
its stead the word “Forty-two”.
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 “Forty” and inserting in its stead the word “Forty-two; and
(b) by omitting from that sub-section the
word “Thirty-four” (wherever occurring) and inserting in its stead the word “Thirty-six”.
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 “exceed
Eighty-four pounds ten shillings per annum” and inserting in their stead the
words “exceed per annum the total amount per annum which may be received by a
pensioner (not being a permanently blinded person), by way of income and
pension, under the Invalid and Old-age
Pensions Act 1908-1940”.
Limit
of pension where pensioner in a public institution.
6.