Invalid and Old-age Pensions Regulations 1926 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1936. No. 140.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE INVALID AND OLD-AGE PENSIONS ACT 1908–1936.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Invalid and Old-age Pensions Act 1908–1936.

Dated this First day of October, 1936.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Treasurer.

 

Amendments of the Invalid and Old-age Pensions Regulations.

1.Regulation 12 of the Invalid and Old-age Pensions Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Calculation of pension.

“12.—(1.) In calculating the maximum pension which may be recommended, there shall be deducted from the total amount per annum which may for the time being be received by a pensioner by way of income and pension the amount of the claimant’s income, including income from accumulated property, and from the balance remaining, or from the maximum rate of pension for the time being determined by the Commissioner under sub-section (1a.) of section 24 of the Act or sub-section (2.) of section 4 of the Financial Relief Act (No. 2) 1936, whichever is lower in amount, there shall be deducted an amount, calculated as directed in sub-section (2.) of section 24 of the Act, in respect of the net capital value of the claimant’s accumulated property.

“(2.) In the case of a permanently blind claimant the amount of pension which may be recommended shall be calculated by deducting from the total amount per annum which may for the time being be received by the blind pensioner and by the blind pensioner’s wife (or husband) by way of income and pension, or from such other amount as is declared by any Act or by any authority constituted under an Act to be a basic wage for the portion of the Commonwealth in which the claimant resides, the amount of the income of the claimant and of the

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1936.

  Statutory Rules 1926, No. 178, as amended by Statutory Rules 1929, Nos. 9 and 110; 1930, Nos. 4 and 11; 1931, No. 91; 1932, No. 122; 1933, Nos. 4, 41, 63 and 144; 1934, Nos. 12, 59, 112 and 142; and 1935, Nos. 21 and 57.

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claimant’s wife or husband, as the case may be, including income from accumulated property, and from the balance remaining, or from the maximum rate of pension for the time being determined by the Commissioner under sub-section (1a.) of section 24 of the Act or sub-section (2.) of section 4 of the Financial Relief Act (No. 2) 1936, whichever is lower in amount, there shall be deducted an amount, calculated as directed in sub-section (2.) of section 24 of the Act, in respect of the net capital value of the claimant’s accumulated property.”.

Pensioner in benevolent asylum &c.

2. Regulation 32 of the Invalid and Old-age Pensions Regulations is amended by inserting in sub-regulation (2), after the words “Five shillings” (wherever occurring), the words “and sixpence”.

 

By Authority: L.F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.