Interim Forces Benefits Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1973 No. 154

REGULATIONS UNDER THE INTERIM FORCES BENEFITS ACT 1947-1973.*

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 1947-1973.

Dated this second day of August, 1973.

PAUL HASLUCK

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

R. BISHOP

Minister of State for Repatriation.

 

Amendments of the Interim Forces Benefits Regulations

Commencement.

1. These Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on the day on which the Interim Forces Benefits Act 1973 received the Royal Assent.

Definitions.

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

(a) by omitting from the definition of “child” in sub-regulation (1) the words “, but not including an ex-nuptial child born more than nine months after the termination of the member’s war service, unless the member has adopted the child”;

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (1) the definition of “widow” and substituting the following definition:—

“‘widow’, in relation to a member, has the same meaning as in Part III of the Repatriation Act;”; and

(c) by adding at the end of sub-regulation (1) the following definition:—

“‘wife’, in relation to a member, has the same meaning as in Part III of the Repatriation Act.”.

Sustenance allowance while undergoing surgical treatment, &c.

3. Regulation 12 of the Interim Forces Benefits Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (5) and substituting the following sub-regulation:—

“(5) In this regulation, ‘child’, in relation to a member, has the same meaning as in Part III of the Repatriation Act;”.

 

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 9 August 1973.

  Statutory Rules 1947, No. 108, as amended by Statutory Rules 1943, 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; and 1973, No. 26.

 

Extension of regulations to female members.

4. Regulation 32 of the Interim Forces Benefits Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (2);

(b) by omitting paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (3) and substituting the following paragraph:—

“(a) the definition of ‘eligible child’ in that regulation applies according to its tenor; and”;

(c) by omitting sub-regulation (5) and substituting the following sub-regulation:—

“(5) Notwithstanding paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (2) but subject to sub-regulation (6), for the purposes of the extended application of regulation 12 in relation to a female member, the definition of ‘child’ in that regulation applies according to its tenor.”; and

(d) by omitting sub-regulation (7).