Australian Soldiers' Repatriation Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1932. No. 131.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE 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, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this sixteenth day of November, 1932.

ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

C. W. C. MARR

Minister of State for Repatriation.

 

Amendment of Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations.

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

1. Regulation 42m of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations is hereby repealed, and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

“Payment of expenses.

42m. Any appellant shall, if he attends a sitting of an Appeal Tribunal or an Assessment Appeal Tribunal, be entitled to receive reasonable subsistence expenses, necessarily incurred, not exceeding 10s. per day when travelling by land, and 3s. per day when travelling by sea, plus reasonable transportation expenses actually paid.”

2. Regulations 123 of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations1930-1931 is hereby repealed, and the following Regulation inserted in its stead:—

“Fares for medical treatment and pension purposes.

123.—(1.) A Deputy Commissioner may, in the case of an applicant who is required, on the advice of a Departmental Medical Officer or Local Medical Officer to travel—

(a) to obtain medical treatment;

(b) for restoration of his health;

(c) to be fitted for artificial replacements or other surgical appliances;

(d) to proceed to hospital; or

(e) for pension purposes;

grant his fare to and from his place of treatment or examination, together with sustenance in accordance with Regulation 77,and reasonable subsistence expenses, necessarily incurred, not exceeding 10s. per day when travelling by land, and 3s. per day when travelling by sea.

3786.—Price 3d.

 

(2.) A Deputy Commissioner may, on the advice of a Departmental Medical Officer or Local Medical Officer, as the case may be, authorize an attendant to accompany a soldier who is travelling to hospital and may provide for the attendant on the forward journey a fare of the same class as the patient, and on the return journey a second-class fare, and in addition reasonable subsistence expenses, necessarily incurred, not exceeding 10s. per day for such period as is considered reasonable to complete the forward and return journeys.

(3.) A Deputy Commissioner may, only in special cases, on the advice of a Departmental Medical Officer or Local Medical Officer, as the case may be, authorize the payment of first-class fares with or without sleeping berths.”

 

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