Interim Forces Benefits Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1979 No. 173

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-third day of August 1979.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

EVAN ADERMANN

Minister of State for Veterans’ Affairs

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AMENDMENT OF THE INTERIM FORCES BENEFITS REGULATIONS2

Treatment for certain members for disabilities not due to service

1. Regulation 7 of the Interim Forces Benefits Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

“, or a member who—

(a) was, immediately before 2 November 1978, in receipt of a pension in respect of pulmonary tuberculosis under that Act; or

(b) by virtue of a claim referred to in section 38 of the Repatriation Acts Amendment Act 1978, has become, or becomes, entitled to a pension in respect of pulmonary tuberculosis under the Repatriation Act.”.

Application

2. (1) The Interim Forces Benefits Regulations, as amended by these Regulations, apply to and in relation to the provision of medical treatment by a Deputy Commissioner on or after 22 August 1979.

(2) In sub-regulation (1), “medical treatment” has the same meaning as in Part II of the Interim Forces Benefits Regulations.

 

NOTES

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

 

NOTES-continued

2. 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; 1965 No. 127; 1967 No. 151; 1968 No. 124; 1969 No. 176; 1970 No. 154; 1972 Nos. 179 and 185; 1973 Nos. 26,154 and 283; 1975 No. 96; and 1978 No. 185.