Australian Soldiers' Repatriation Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1924. No. 158.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS’ REPATRIATION ACT 1920-22.

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 1920-22, to come into operation as from the second day of October, 1924.

Dated this fifteenth day of October, 1924.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

THOS. W. CRAWFORD,

for Treasurer.

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Amendment of Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations 1920.

(Statutory Rules 1920, No. 112, as amended to this date.)

1. After regulation 89m of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations the following regulation is inserted in Part VI.a.:—

“89n.—(1) The Commission may grant to a totally blinded soldier, who is in receipt of a pension under the Second Schedule to the Act, an allowance, not exceeding One pound per week, to provide for the services of an attendant.

“(2) In the case of a soldier whose eyesight is, in the opinion of the Commission, so defective that he has no useful sight, and who is in receipt of a pension under the Second Schedule to the Act, the Commission may in its discretion grant to the soldier an allowance, not exceeding One pound per week, to provide for the services of an attendant, if and so long as the Commission is satisfied that the services of an attendant are necessary.

“(3) No allowance under this regulation shall be payable to any soldier who is maintained in an establishment at the public expense.”

 

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