Defence (Re-establishment Loans) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)
REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE (RE-ESTABLISHMENT) ACT 1965-1973.*
I,
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive
Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the
Dated this eighteenth day of December, 1973
Paul Hasluck
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
SIGNED R. BISHOP
Minister of State for Repatriation.
Amendments of the Defence (Re-establishment Loans) Regulations
(a) by omitting sub-regulation (1) and substituting the following sub-regulation:—
“ (1.) In this regulation—
‘incapacitated eligible person’ means an eligible person who, before the expiration of six months after the relevant day, became incapacitated as a result of an occurrence that happened—
(a) in the case of an eligible person, other than a former regular serviceman—during his period of national service; or
(b) in the case of a former regular serviceman—during the period of continuous full-time service referred to, in relation to the former regular serviceman, in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of sub-section (1) of section 4a of the Act, as a result of which he is unable to follow his usual occupation or another appropriate occupation and is receiving or has received, in respect of that incapacity—
* Notified in the
Statutory Rules 1967, No. 102, as amended by Statutory Rules 1967, No. 174; and 1973, No. 53.
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(c) treatment or training under Part VIII of the
Social Services Act 1947-1966, or that Act as amended, in its application to disabled persons by virtue of section 47 of the Act;(d) compensation under the
Commonwealth Employees ’Compensation Act 1930-1964, or that Act as amended;(e) pension or other benefit under the
Repatriation (Special Overseas Service )Act 1962-1966, or that Act as amended;(f) pension or other benefit under the
Repatriation Act 1920-1972, or that Act as amended; or(g) pension or oilier benefit under the
Repatriation (Far East Strategic Reserve )Act 1956-1972, or that Act as amended.the relevant day’, in relation to an eligible person means—
(a) in the case of an eligible person, not being a former regular serviceman, who was discharged from the Regular Army Supplement before the date of commencement of Statutory Rules 1967, No. 102, namely, 14 December 1967—the date of commencement of Statutory Rules 1967, No. 102;
(b) in the case of any other eligible person, not being a former regular serviceman—the date on which the per-son was discharged from the Regular Army Supplement;
(c) in the case of a former regular serviceman in relation to whom the period of continuous full-time service referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of subsection (1) of section 4a of the Act ended before the date fixed under sub-section (2) of section 2 of the
Defence (Re-establishment )Act 1973—the date fixed under sub-section (2) of section 2 of theDefence (Re-establishment )Act 1973; or(d) in the case of any other former regular serviceman—the date on which the period of continuous full-time service referred to, in relation to the former regular serviceman, in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of subsection. (1) of section 4a of the Act, ended.
‘the relevant period’, in relation to an eligible person who applies for training under the National Service Vocational Training Scheme or the Former Regular Servicemen Vocational Training Scheme, means—
(a) in the case of an incapacitated eligible person—the period expiring twelve months after the person is sufficiently recovered from his incapacity to undertake the training; or
(b) in the case of any other eligible person—the period of twelve months after the relevant day.”; and
(b) by inserting in paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (2) after the words “National Service Vocational Training Scheme” the words “or the Former Regular Servicemen Vocational Training Scheme”.
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