Interim Forces Benefits Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1979 No. 224

REGULATIONS UNDER THE INTERIM FORCES BENEFITS ACT 19471

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of 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-fifth day of October 1979.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

EVAN ADERMANN

Minister of State for Veterans’ Affairs

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AMENDMENTS OF THE INTERIM FORCES BENEFITS REGULATIONS2

Commencement

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 November 1979.

Expenses of travelling for medical treatment or pension purposes

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

(a) by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (4) “$22.50” and substituting “$41.15”; and

(b) by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (4) “$17.00” and substituting “$34.50”.

Funeral expenses

3. Regulation 28 of the Interim Forces Benefits Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting “One hundred dollars” and substituting “$300”; and

(b) by omitting paragraph (c) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(c) who dies—

(i) in an institution;

(ii) while proceeding to or from an institution; or

 

(iii) after being discharged while terminally ill from an institution with the approval of the Deputy Commissioner,

being an institution to which he had been authorized to proceed for any purpose under regulation 5, 6 or 7,”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 31 October 1979.

2. Statutory Rules 1947 No. 108 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1979 No. 173 and see also