Australian Soldiers' Repatriation Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1924. No. 97.

 

REGULATION UNDER 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 Regulation under the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Act 1920–1922, to come into operation as on and from the 1st day of June, 1924.

Dated this third day of July, 1924.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

THOS. W. CRAWFORD,

for Treasurer.

 

Amendment of Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations 1920.

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

After regulation 103 of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations, the following regulation is inserted:—

Medical treatment for widows, &c.

“103 a. (1) A Deputy Commissioner may, subject to such conditions as the Commission from time to time determines, provide medical treatment for widows and orphans of deceased soldiers and for widowed mothers of deceased unmarried soldiers.

(2) For the purposes of this regulation—

‘Deceased soldier, means a deceased soldier whose death, the Commission has decided, was due to war service;

‘Orphan’ means a child under the age of 16 years of a deceased soldier, but does not include the child of a widow who remarries;

‘Widow’ includes a person who is allowed a pension under section 36 of the Act, by reason of the death of a member of the Forces;

‘Widowed mother of a deceased unmarried soldier’ means any of the following persons who became a widow prior to, or within three years after the death of the deceased unmarried soldier, namely:—

(a) The widowed mother of a deceased soldier who was unmarried;

(b) the widowed stepmother of such a soldier;

(c) the widowed fostermother of such a soldier; and

(d) he widowed mother of such a soldier who was born out of wedlock and brought up by her,

and includes the unmarried mother of such a soldier who is recognized as the widow of the father of the soldier, who died prior to, or within three years after the death of the soldier.”

 

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C 10334.—Price 3d.