Australian Soldiers' Repatriation Regulations 1919 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1920. No. 44.

REGULATION UNDER THE AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS’ REPATRIATION ACT 1917–1918.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL, in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Act 1917–1918, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this sixteenth day of March, 1920.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

E. D. MILLEN,

Minister of State for Repatriation.

 

Amendment of Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations 1919.

(Statutory Rules 1919, No. 123, as amended by Statutory Rules 1919, Nos. 263, 274, 278, 290, and 295, and 1920, Nos. 11, 12, 13, 28, and 42.)

I. After Regulation 145 of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations, the following regulation is inserted:—

Allowance for training of children over 16 and under 18 years of age.

“145a. (1) A Deputy Comptroller may, subject to the directions of the Commission, grant to the child over sixteen and under eighteen years of age of a deceased or totally and permanently incapacitated soldier, for the purpose of assisting the child to receive secondary education, or to be trained for a trade, calling, or occupation which the Deputy Comptroller deems suitable, such allowance as will insure to the child an income, inclusive of the pension and earnings of the child, of twenty shillings per week.

“(2) No bursary or scholarship awarded to any such child shall be taken into account in estimating the amount of the allowance payable to a child under this regulation.

“(3) The Deputy Comptroller may, at any time, if he is satisfied that the child is not receiving training or being educated for the trade, calling, or occupation, revoke the grant of the allowance.”

II. Regulation 27 of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations is amended by inserting at the end thereof the following proviso:—

“Provided that in the case of a Country Local Committee appointed for an area containing a population of 20,000 or over a Deputy Comptroller may appoint the Secretary and such other officers as the Minister directs.”

 

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