Interim Forces Benefits Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1948. No. 136.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE INTERIM FORCES BENEFITS ACT 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 Interim Forces Benefits Act 1947.

Dated this twenty-seventh day of October, 1948.

W. J. McKell

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Repatriation.

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Amendments of the Interim Forces Benefits Regulations.

Expenses of travelling for medical treatment or pension purposes.

1.—(1.) Regulations 14 and 15 of the Interim Forces Benefits Regulations are repealed and the following regulations inserted in their stead:—

“14.—(1.) Where it is necessary for a member to travel—

(a) to obtain medical treatment;

(b) for restoration of his health;

(c) to be fitted for surgical aids or appliances or artificial replacements;

(d) to proceed to hospital; or

(e) for pension purposes,

a Deputy Commissioner may, subject to such conditions as the Commission from time to time determines, grant the member’s fare for the forward and return journeys.

“(2.) A Deputy Commissioner may, on the advice of a Departmental Medical Officer or a Local Medical Officer, as the case may be, authorize an attendant to accompany a member who is travelling for any of the purposes specified in sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation and may grant the attendant’s fares for the forward and return journeys.

“(3.) Where fares are granted under this regulation, a Deputy Commissioner may also defray the expenses of the subsistence while travelling of the member, or of the member and his attendant, as the case requires, but no amount shall be defrayed except in respect of expenses reasonably and necessarily incurred or in excess of Twenty shillings per person per day.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1948.

  Statutory Rules 1947, No. 108, as amended by Statutory Rules 1948, No. 82.

4216.—Price 3d.  10/22.9.1948.

 

Furniture.

“15.—(1.) A Deputy Commissioner may, subject to these Regulations, grant an order for the supply, by way of gift, of household furniture to a value not exceeding Seventy-five pounds to a blinded or totally and permanently incapacitated member who becomes so disabled not later than five years after the date of his discharge where that assistance is necessary for the establishment in civil life of the member.

“(2.) Assistance shall not be granted under this regulation unless application therefor is made before the expiration of twelve months after the date of—

(a) the member’s discharge;

(b) the decision classifying him as blinded or totally and permanently incapacitated; or

(c) his marriage,

whichever last happens.

“(3.) Assistance under this regulation shall not be granted on more than one occasion.”.

(2.) A member who, by virtue of the amendment of regulation 15 of the Interim Forces Benefits Regulations by sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation, comes within the class of members specified in paragraph (a) of this regulation, as so amended, may, notwithstanding anything contained in sub-regulation (2.) of that regulation, as so amended, be granted assistance under that regulation, as so amended, if he applies for that assistance before the expiration of twelve months after the date upon which this regulation comes into operation.

Funeral expenses.

2. Regulation 28 of the Interim Forces Benefits Regulations is amended by omitting the words “Fifteen pounds” (first occurring) and inserting in their stead the words “Twenty pounds”.

 

By Authority: L. F.