Invalid and Old-age Pensions Act 1935 (Cth)

INVALID AND OLD-AGE PENSIONS.

 

No. 1 of 1935.

An Act to amend sections seventeen, twenty-two and fifty-two k of the Invalid and Old-age Pensions Act 1908–1933, to repeal sections fifty-two k, fifty-two k, fifty-two d, fifty-two e, fifty-two f and fifty-two m of that Act, and to provide for the determination of certain debts due, orders made, and undertakings given, in pursuance of the Invalid and Old-age Pensions Act 1908-1932 or in pursuance of that Act as subsequently amended.

[Assented to 4th April, 1935.]

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 1935.

(2.) The Invalid and Old-age Pensions Act 1908–1933 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 1908–1935.

Necessary conditions—old age pensions.

2. Section seventeen of the Principal Act is amended by omitting paragraph (fa).

Necessary conditions—invalid pensions.

3. Section twenty-two of the Principal Act is amended by omitting paragraph (ga) of sub-section (1.) of that section.

Repeal of sections 52a.52o, 52d, 52b, and 52f.

4.—(1.) Sections fifty-two a, fifty-two c, fifty-two d, fifty-two e and fifty-two f of the Principal Act are repealed.

(2.) All debts due to the Commissioner or the Commonwealth at the date of the commencement of this section under the provisions of any of the sections repealed by this section are hereby cancelled.

Application of insurance moneys.

5. Section fifty-two k of the Principal Act is amended by omitting all the words after the word “purpose” (second occurring) and inserting in their stead the words “the rate of pension payable to the pensioner shall not be reduced by reason of the receipt or ownership of those moneys.”.

Repeal of s. 52m.

6.—(1.) Section fifty-two m of the Principal Act is repealed.

(2.) This section shall be deemed to have commenced on the twenty-first day of June, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-four.

(3.) All undertakings given pursuant to section fifty-two m of the Invalid and Old-age Pensions Act 1908