Australian Soldiers' Repatriation Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1933. No. 125.

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REGULATIONS UNDER AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS’ REPATRIATION ACT 1920-1931.*

 

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 Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Act 1920-1931.

Dated this tenth day of November, 1933.

(sgd.) ISAAC. A. ISAACS

Governor-General.

By his Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Repatriation.

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Amendment of the Australian soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations.  

(Statutory Rules 1925, No.110, as amended to this date.)

1. Regulation 3 of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations is amended by inserting, before the definition of “Departmental Medical Officer”, the following definition:-

“‘Deceased soldiers’ means a soldier whose death has been accepted for the purpose of the Act and of these Regulations as attributable to war service;”

2. Regulations 77 of the Australian soldiers ‘Repatriation Regulations is amended by omitting from the scale contained there in the items “(ii) the wife of the soldier................................. 27s. 10d.and inserting in its stead the item “(11) the wife of the soldier .....  32s. 5d.”.

3. Regulations 89c of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations is amended by omitting the second and third provisoes.

4. Regulations 89d of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations is amended by omitting the last proviso.

5. Regulation 89e of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations is amended by omitting the second and third provisoes.

6. Regulation 89f of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations is amended by omitting the second and third provisoes.

7. Regulation “89o of the Australian soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Dependents of soldier dying after seven years after discharge

“89o. In the case of a deceased soldier who died after the expiration of seven years after the date of his discharge, the commission may, having regard to the circumstances of the applicant, grant to any person who-

(a) is included is any of the classes specified is section sixty of the Act;

(b) was a dependent of the soldier; and

(c) is not entitled to a war pension under the Act in respect of the death of the soldier.

an allowance at such rates as the Commission thinks fit, but not exceeding the rate of war pension which would be payable to that person if he were entitled to be paid a war pension”.

8. The foregoing regulations shall be deemed to have commenced on the 2nd day of November, 1933.

9. Regulation 47a of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations is repealed and the following regulations inserted in its stead:-

Reduction of Allowances

47a. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in these Regulations, the amount of any allowances which but for this regulation and section forty-two of the Financial Emergency Act 1931 as amended by the Financial Relief Act 1933 would have been payable under regulations 89a, 89b, 89c, 89ga, 89i, 89k, 89l and 89P of these Regulations shall be reduced by twenty per centum.

(2) This regulation shall be deemed to have commenced on 19th day of October, 1933.