National Security (Medical Benefits for Seamen) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1944. No. 106.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1943.*

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 National Security Act 1939-1943.

Dated this fourteenth day of July, 1944.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence.

 

Amendments of the National Security (Medical Benefits for Seamen) Regulations.

Commencement.

1. This Regulation shall be deemed to have come into operation on the seventh day of December, 1941.

Continuation of wages of deceased seamen.

2. Regulation 10 of the National Security (Medical Benefits for Seamen) Regulations is amended by inserting after sub-regulation (1.) the following sub-regulation:—

“(1a.) If, as the result of a war injury, an Australian mariner dies after reaching his home port and during the period during which he is entitled to receive wages under these Regulations, his widow or other dependants shall be entitled, at the cost of the Commonwealth, to a continuation of the wages of the Australian mariner for a period of one month from the date of his death”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1944.

  Statutory Rules 1943, No. 177, as amended by Statutory Rules 1944, No. 16.

 

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

858.—Price 3d.  9/28.3.1944.