Interim Forces Benefits Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1967 No. 151

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE INTERIM FORCES BENEFITS ACT 1947-1966.*

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 Interim Forces Benefits Act 1947-1966.

Dated this ninth day of November, 1967.

CASEY

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

 

G. Colin McKellar

Minister of State for Repatriation.

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Amendments of the Interim Forces Benefits Regulations

1. Regulation 8 of the Interim Forces Benefits Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Meaning of ‘medical treatment’.

“8. For the purposes of this Part, ‘medical treatment’ means any treatment with a view to restoring a person to, or maintaining a person in, physical or mental health or alleviating suffering, and includes—

(a) any accommodation, nursing care or transport in relation to such treatment; and

(b) the supply, renewal and repair of artificial replacements and surgical and other aids and appliances.”.

Increase in amounts of certain allowances.

2. The Interim Forces Benefits Regulations are amended as set out in the First Schedule to these Regulations.

Amendments in relation to decimal currency.

3. The Interim Forces Benefits Regulations are amended as set out in the Second Schedule to these Regulations.

 

THE SCHEDULES

FIRST SCHEDULE Regulation 2.

Amendments Providing for the Increase in the Amounts or Certain Allowances

Provisions amended	Omit—	Insert—
Regulation 14 (4.)...........................	Two pounds fourteen shillings	Seven dollars seventy cents
Regulation 14a (3.)........................	Five shillings	Eighty-five cents
Regulation 14a (4.)........................	Seven shillings and six pence	One dollar twenty-eight cents
Two pounds	Six dollars eighty cents
Regulation 14a (5.)........................	Four pounds	Thirteen dollars sixty cents

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  1967.

  Statutory Rules 1947, No. 108, as amended by Statutory Rules 1948, Nos. 82, 136 and 138; 1950, No. 97; 1951, No. 8; 1953, No. 7; 1961, No. 118; and 1965, No. 127.

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SECOND SCHEDULE Regulation 3.

Amendments in Relation to Decimal Currency

Provisions amended	Omit—	Insert—
Regulation 15 (1.)..........................	Seventy-five pounds	One hundred and fifty dollars
Regulation 16 (1.)..........................	Ten pounds	Twenty dollars
Regulation 16 (2.)..........................	Forty pounds	Eighty dollars
Regulation 27 (2.)..........................	Fifteen pounds	Thirty dollars
Regulation 28.................................	Twenty-five pounds	Fifty dollars
Fifteen pounds	Thirty dollars

                                 

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By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra