Australian Soldiers' Repatriation Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1948. No. 43.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS’ REPATRIATION ACT 1920-1947.*

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 1920-1947.

Dated this twenty-fifth day of March, 1948.

W. J. McKell

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Repatriation.

 

Amendments of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations. 

Medical treatment for widows, &c.

1. Regulation 73 of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (2.).

Employment and sustenance while awaiting employment.

2. Regulation 75 of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations is repealed.

Failure to notify fact of employment.

3. Regulation 76 of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations is repealed.

Sustenance allowance while waiting to enter into possession of land or business,

4. Regulation 178 of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations is amended by omitting all the words from and including the words “sustenance allowance” to the end of the regulation and inserting in their stead the words “an allowance at the same rate and subject to the same conditions as are prescribed by Division 2 of Part VI. of the Re-establishment and Employment Act 1945 in relation to re-employment allowances”.

Funeral expenses.

5.—(1.) Regulation 179 of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations is amended—

(a)by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the symbol and figures ‘‘£15’’ (first occurring) and inserting in their stead the symbol and figures “£20”; and

(b)by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) the symbol and figures “£15” and inserting in their stead the symbol and figures “£20”.

(2.) This regulation shall be deemed to have come into operation on the tenth day of December, 1947.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1948.

  Statutory Rules 1943, No. 233, as amended by Statutory Rules 1945, No. 48; 1946, No. 182; and 1947, Nos. 72, 106, 149 and 169; and 1948, No. .

656.—Price 3d. 10/3.3.1948.

 

Contributions under section 114 of Act.

6. After regulation 184 of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations the following regulations are inserted :—

“184a.—(1.) Contributions of money or in kind received by the Commission pursuant to section 114 of the Act shall be applied by the Commission for all or any of the purposes specified in section 124 of the Act and, pending such application, shall be dealt with insuch manner as the Commission directs in its General Orders or in other written instructions from time to time issued by it.

(2.) All moneys so received shall be deposited in the Commonwealth Bank and be credited to such account as the Commission determines.

Contributions for special purposes.

“184b.—(1.) Where a contribution is made to the Commission for application by it for any particular purpose authorized by section 124 of the Act or for the benefit of any special class of persons mentioned therein, or for any particular institution maintained by the Commission, the Commission may, if it thinks fit, apply such contribution for the purpose desired by the contributor or for any other purpose authorized by section 124 of the Act.

(2.) Any contribution of money for any such particular purpose shall be credited to a special account in the Commonwealth Bank until it is applied by the Commission in accordance with this regulation.

Interest.

“184c. The Commission may apply the interest earned on any moneys invested in similar manner as if it formed part of the principal sum.

Contributions in kind.

“184d. The whole or that part of a contribution made in kind may at any time and at the absolute discretion of the Commission be converted into money, and the moneys resulting from such conversion, together with any other moneys being rent, interest, or income, in any way payable in respect of or arising out of such contribution in kind shall be credited to an account in the Commonwealth Bank in accordance with regulation 184a or regulation 184b of these Regulations.

Profits from canteens, &c.

“184e. Profits from canteens attached to hospitals, or other institutions, under the control of the Commission may at the discretion of the Commission be applied in the same manner as moneys received pursuant to section 114 of the Act.”.

South African veterans.

7.—(1.) Regulation 197 of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (3.) the symbol and figures “£15” and inserting in their stead the symbol and figures “£20”.

(2.) This regulation shall be deemed to have come into operation on the tenth day of December, 1947.

 

By Authority: L. F.