Australian Soldiers' Repatriation Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1937. No. 56.

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REGULATION UNDER THE AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS’ REPATRIATION ACT 1920-1936,*

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 1920-1936,

Dated this 2nd day of June, 1937.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Repatriation.

 

Amendment of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations. 

Grants for funeral expenses.

Regulation 187 of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(1.) A Deputy Commissioner may grant a sum, not exceeding £15, towards the funeral expenses in respect of a soldier who dies—

(a) as a result of war service;

(b) in indigent circumstances; or

(c) in an institution, or while proceeding to or from an institution, to which the soldier had been authorized to proceed for any purpose under regulation 109, 112 or 114 of these Regulations,

and, in the case of a soldier to whom paragraph (c) of this sub-regulation applies, may grant a further sum, not exceeding £15, towards the cost of transportation of the soldier’s remains to—

(d) the soldier’s usual place of residence; or

(e) such other place as, in the opinion of the Deputy Commissioner, transportation of the remains is desirable:

Provided that a grant made in pursuance of this paragraph shall not exceed such sum as the Deputy Commissioner might have granted towards the cost of transportation of the remains to the soldier’s usual place of residence.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1937.

  Statutory Rules 1934, No. 16, as amended by Statutory Rules 1935, Nos. 7, 84 and 136; and 1936, No. 134.

 

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

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