Australian Soldiers' Repatriation Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1927. No. 151.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS’ REPATRIATION ACT 1920-1922.

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 1920-1922, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this fourteenth day of December, One thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven.

STONEHAVEN

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

NEVILLE HOWSE

Minister in Charge of Repatriation.

 

Amendment of Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations.

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

1. Regulation 77 of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations 1920-1922 is hereby repealed and the following Regulations inserted in its stead:—

Rates of Sustenance while undergoing medical treatment.

“77 (1) Where a soldier lodges an application for medical treatment and a Departmental Medical Officer certifies that the applicant is unable through disabilities due to or materially aggravated by war service to accept employment or has been compelled through those disabilities to leave his employment and has been ordered by a Departmental Medical Officer to undergo medical treatment, a Deputy Commissioner may, for such a period as a Departmental Medical Officer specifies in his certificate, grant sustenance allowance at such a rate as will ensure—

(a) to a soldier without dependants a weekly income inclusive of pension of 42s.;

(b) to a soldier with a wife a weekly income, inclusive of their combined pensions, of 60s.;

(c) to a soldier with a wife and one child a weekly income inclusive of their combined pensions of 70s.;

(d) to a soldier with a wife and two children a weekly income, inclusive of their combined pensions, of 77s. 6d.;

(e) to a soldier with a wife and more than two children a weekly income, inclusive of their combined pensions equivalent to the amount specified in sub-paragraph (d), plus 7s. 6d. in respect to each additional child.

1552.—Price 3d.

(2) A widower with a child shall be entitled to the same sustenance allowance under this regulation as if his wife were living.

(3) An unmarried soldier with an ex-nuptial child shall be entitled to the same sustenance allowance under this regulation as a widower with a child, but in respect of the child, not exceeding the amount contributed by him to its support.

(4) Friendly Society benefits, salary, wages, sick pay or other income whatsoever shall not be taken into consideration in determining the rate of sustenance under this regulation.

(5) Where a soldier who enlisted irregularly is discharged on account of such irregular enlistment, no sustenance shall be paid to him under this regulation.”

2. Regulation 79 of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations is amended—

(a) by deleting from the proviso to Sub-regulation (1) the words “sub-regulation (2) of” and—

(b) by deleting from the proviso to Sub-regulation (4) the words “sub-regulation (2) of”.

Fares for medical treatment and pension purposes.

3. Regulation 123 of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations 1920-1922 is hereby repealed and the following Regulation inserted in its stead:—

“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 a travelling allowance of 10s. per day when travelling by land, and 3s. per day when travelling by sea:

Provided that travelling allowance shall not be payable unless the travelling necessitates the applicant’s absence from his home for one or more nights.

(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 an allowance 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: H. J. Green, Government Printer, Canberra.