National Security (Supplementary) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1943. No.315.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1943.*

WHEREAS, by reason of circumstances arising out of the war, the operation of regulations under the National Security Act 1939-1943 and the effect of economic adjustments made by or under those regulations, anomalies have been created in relation to the rates of the pensions and allowances specified in the following regulation:

And whereas it is urgently necessary that as far as possible those anomalies should be removed forthwith and that the maximum rates of the pensions and allowances so specified and in force on the first day of October, 1943, should apply, and be deemed to have applied from that date, without adjustment in accordance with the price index number as specified in the following regulation:

Now therefore 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 National Security Act 1939-1943.

Dated this thirty-first day of December, 1943.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

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

 

Amendment of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations.

1.—(1.) The National Security (Supplementary) Regulations are amended by adding at the end thereof the following regulation:—

Rates of pensions and allowances.

‘‘112a.—(l.) The rates of pensions and allowances payable under the Invalid and Old-age Pensions Act 1908-1943, under the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Act 1920-1943 or under the Widows’ Pensions Act 1942-1943 shall not be subject to any alteration by reason only of any variation of the price index number as defined in the first-mentioned Act or in the last-mentioned Act, as the case may be.”.

(2.) This regulation shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of October, 1943.

* Notified in the Commonwealth, Gazette on   , 1943.

Statutory Rules 1940, No. 126, as amended to date. For previous National Security (Supplementary) Regulations see footnote   Statutory Rules 1943, No. 256, and see also Statutory Rules 1943, Nos. 267, 268, 269, 275, 279, 283, 288, 289 and 290.

 

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

7498—Price 3d. 9/18.12.1943.