Interim Forces Benefits Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1975 No. 96

REGULATIONS UNDER THE INTERIM FORCES BENEFITS ACT 1947-1974.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of Australia, acting with the advice of the

Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Interim Forces Benefits Act 1947-1974.

Dated this twenty-ninth day of May, 1975.

JOHN R. KERR

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

JOHN M. WHEELDON

Minister of State for Repatriation and Compensation.

Amendments of the Interim Forces Benefits Regulations

Expenses of travelling for medical treatment or pension purposes.

1. Regulation 14 of the Interim Forces Benefits Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (4) the words “ Nineteen dollars sixty-five cents ” and substituting the figures “ $22.50 ”; and

(b) by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (4) the words “ Fourteen dollars seventy-five cents ” and substituting the figures “ $17.00 ”.

Attendance allowance.

2. Regulation 14a of the Interim Forces Benefits Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulations (3) to (8) inclusive and substituting the following sub-regulation:—

“ (2) Where a member to whom this regulation applies is required to attend at a place referred to in sub-regulation (1) for a purpose specified in that sub-regulation, he is entitled to be paid an allowance in respect of that attendance at the same rate and subject to the same conditions as if he were, in respect of that attendance, entitled to be paid an allowance under sub-regulation 46a (2) or (4) of the Repatriation Regulations.”.

Funeral expenses.

3. Regulation 28 of the Interim Forces Benefits Regulations is amended by omitting the words “ Thirty dollars, towards ” and substituting the words “ the amount that would reasonably have been incurred in respect of ”.

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 30 May 1975.

  Statutory Rules 1947, No. 108, as amended by Statutory Rules 1948, Nos. 83, 136 and 138; 1950, No. 97; 1951, No. 8; 1953, No. 7: 1961, No. 118; 1965, No. 127; 1967, No. 151; 1968, No. 124; 1969, No. 176; 1970, No. 154.

Application of certain provisions of Repatriation Regulations.

4. Regulation 31 of the Interim Forces Benefits Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting the figures “ 77,” and substituting the figures “ 65a, 77,”; and

(b) by inserting after the figures “ 176d,” the figures “ 180, 180aa,”.

Schedule.

5. The Schedule to the Interim Forces Benefits Regulations is amended by adding at the end of the table headed “ (i) MODIFICATIONS ” the following paragraphs:—

“ (c) Regulation 180 ................	(i) Insert in paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (1) after the figures ‘ 66 (2) ’ the words ‘ of the Repatriation Regulations ’; and
	(ii) Insert after sub-regulation (7) the following sub-regulation:—
	‘ (7a) Decoration allowance is not payable under this regulation to a member to whom this regulation applies where decoration allowance is payable to the member under regulation 180 of the Repatriation Regulations.
(d) Regulation 180aa ..............	Add at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—
	‘ (5) Victoria Cross allowance is not payable to a member under this regulation where Victoria Cross allowance is payable to the member under regulation 180aa of the Repatriation Regulations.’.”.