Invalid and Old-age Pensions Act 1925 (Cth)

 

INVALID AND OLD-AGE PENSIONS.

No. 27 of 1925.

An Act to amend sections twenty-four, thirty-one, forty-five and forty-seven of the Invalid and Old-age Pensions Act 1908-1923.

[Assented to 26th September, 1925.]

BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Invalid and Old-age Pensions Act 1925.

(2.) The Invalid and Old-age Pensions Act 1908-1923 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Invalid and Old-age Pensions Act 1908-1925.

Commencement

2.This Act shall commence on the eighth day of October One thousand nine hundred and twenty-five.

Limit of pension.

3.Section twenty-four of the Principal Act is amended—

(a)by omitting from sub-section (1.) thereof the words “Forty-five pounds ten shillings” (wherever occurring) and inserting in their stead the words” Fifty-two pounds”; and

(b)by omitting from sub-section (1.) thereof the words “Seventy-eight pounds” and inserting in their stead the words “Eighty-four pounds ten shillings”.

 

Recommendation by Magistrate.

4. Section thirty-one of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (2.) thereof the word “three” and inserting in its stead the word “four”.

Pensioners in hospitals.

5.Section forty-five of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from the proviso thereto the word “three” and inserting in its stead the word “four”.

Benevolent asylum inmates.

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