Interim Forces Benefits Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1970 No. 154

 

REGULATION UNDER THE INTERIM FORCES BENEFITS ACT 1947-1967.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Interim Forces Benefits Act 1947-1967.

Dated this first day of October, 1970.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Repatriation.

 

Amendment of the Interim Forces Benefits Regulations

Sustenance allowance while undergoing medical treatment, &c.

Regulation 12 of the Interim Forces Benefits Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) all the words after paragraph (c) and inserting in their stead the words—

“a Deputy Commissioner may, subject to the succeeding provisions of this regulation and to the directions of the Commission, grant to the member, for the period for which he is so prevented, sustenance allowance at a rate not exceeding—

(d)the rate of pension that would be payable to the member under the First Schedule to the Repatriation Act upon his total incapacity; or

(e) if the member has a wife and children or a wife or children, the total of the rates of pension that would be payable to the member under the First Schedule to the Reparation Act, and in respect of his wife and children, or wife or children, under the Third Schedule to that Act, upon his total incapacity,

less the rate of any pension payable to the member under that First Schedule, or the total of the rates of any pensions payable to the member under that First Schedule and to his wife and children or wife or children under that Third Schedule.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 15 October, 1970.

  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; and 1969, No. 176.

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