Australian Soldiers' Repatriation Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1926. No. 109.

 

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

I, THE DEPUTY OF 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 eleventh day of August, 1926.

SOMERS,

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

NEVILLE HOWSE,

Minister of State for Defence.

Amendment of Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations.

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

Children of deceased soldier where a widow remarries.

1. Regulation 89g of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (c) the words “deceased or”.

2. After regulation 89gof the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Remarried widow of deceased soldier who is again widowed and is without adequate means of support.

“89ga.—(1.) The Commission may, having regard to the circumstances of the case, grant to the widow of a deceased soldier—

(a) who has remarried;

(b) who is again widowed;

(c) who is without adequate means of support; and

(d) who is resident in the Commonwealth,

such allowance as will provide her—

“(i) if she has no children, with a weekly income from all sources of 30s., but so that the allowance granted under this regulation shall not exceed 20s. per week;

(ii) if she has one child, with a weekly income from all sources of 45s. (inclusive of any pension payable to the child), but so that the allowance granted under this regulation shall not exceed 25s. per week;

(iii) if she has two children, with a weekly income from all sources of 52s. 6d. (inclusive of any pensions payable to the children), but so that the allowance granted under this regulation shall not exceed 27s. 6d. per week;

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(iv) if she has three children, with a weekly income from all sources of 57s. 6d. (inclusive of the pensions payable to the children), but so that the allowance granted under this regulation shall not exceed 30s. per week; and

(v) if she has four or more children, with a weekly income from all sources of 60s. (inclusive of the pensions payable to the children), but so that the allowance granted under this regulation shall not exceed 32s. 6d. per week:

Provided that no allowance shall be granted under this regulation while a pension payable under the Act to the widow is continued.

“(2.) For the purposes of this regulation ‘Deceased Soldier’ means a deceased soldier whose death the Commission has decided was due to an event happening during the period he was a member of the Forces.”.

Medical treatment for widows, &c.

3. Regulation 103a of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations is amended by adding at the end of the definition of an “Orphan” in sub-regulation (2.) thereof, the words unless, in the opinion of a Deputy Commissioner, the special circumstances of the case justify his inclusion”.

 

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