Coal Mine Workers (Pensions) Act Amendment Act 1947 (WA)

COAL MINE WORKERS (PENSIONS).

11° GEO. VI., No. XV.

No. 15 of 1947.

AN ACT to amend section thirteen and to repeal section fifteen of the Coal Mine Workers (Pensions) Act, 1943-1944.

[Assented to 1st November,1947.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty,by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Coal Mine Short title and citation.

Workers (Pensions) Act Amendment Act, 1947, and shall cf. No. 33

be read as one with the Coal Mine Workers (Pensions) s. 19 44, of

7.

Act, 1943-1944 (No. 27 of 1 943 as amended by the Act No. 33 of 1944), hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

(2) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be

cited as the Coal Mine Workers (Pensions) Act, 1943-

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of a. 13. 2. Subject to section six of this, the Coal Mine

Workers (Pensions) Act Amendment Act, 1947, section

thirteen of the principal Act is amended by adding after

the word "Act" in line thirteen a proviso as follows:

Provided that in making such deductions the fol- lowing shall be disregarded, namely, the increases of five shillings and sixpence per week in July, one thousand nine hundred and forty-five and five shil- lings per week in July one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven under the Invalid and Old Age Pensions Act, 1908-1946 (Commonwealth), and the increase of two shillings and sixpence per week in July one thousand nine hundred and forty-five under the Child Endowment Act, 1941-1945 (Com- monwealth) and if any addition to those increases be made under those Acts, the addition shall like- wise be disregarded.

Repeal of	3. Section fifteen of the principal Act is repealed.
Commence-
ment of	4. This, the Coal Mine Workers (Pensions) Act
this Act

27 of 1943,	Amendment Act, 1947, shall have effect and shall be
s.1 (3) (h)	deemed to have had effect and to have been in operation
and Gazette
16/6/44.	as from and including the date of commencement of Part II. of the principal Act, namely the first day of July one thousand nine hundred and forty-four.

Validation. 5. (1) In so far as any matter or thing has been done in purported pursuance of the provisions of the principal Act prior to the commencement of this, the Coal Mine Workers (Pensions) Act Amendment Act, 1947, which at the time of the doing thereof was not or may not have

been authorised by the principal Act as then in force,

but which if done after the relevant provisions of this, the Coal Mine Workers (Pensions) Act Amendment Act, 1947, shall have come into operation would be authorised by the principal Act as amended by this, the Coal Mine Workers (Pensions) Act Amendment Act, 1947, the doing of such matter or thing is confirmed and validated.

(2) Any adjustments and other arrangements in rela- tion to any matter or thing, which by subsection (1) of.

this section is confirmed and validated, may be made or effected after the relevant provisions of this, the Coal

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Mine Workers (Pensions) Act Amendment Act, 1947, shall come into operation wherever necessary in order to give effect retrospectively to the provisions of the prin- cipal Act as amended by this, the Coal Mine Workers (Pensions) Act Amendment Act, 1947:

6. The operation of section two of this, the Coal Mine Ldmpeitt

-Workers (Pensions) Act Amendment Act, 1947, shall be operation.

limited to the period ending on the- thirty-first day of

December one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight.