NATIONAL WELFARE FUND ACT 1943 [Note: This Act is "repealed" by Act No. 24 of 1985]
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Compilation Information
- Reprinted as at 23 October 1952
NATIONAL WELFARE FUND ACT 1943-1952 - TABLE OF PROVISIONS
TABLE
NATIONAL WELFARE FUND ACT 1943-1952
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section
1. Short title
2. Commencement
3. Definition
4. Establishment of National Welfare Fund
5. Appropriation for purposes of National Welfare Fund
6. Application of National Welfare Fund
7. Interest from National Welfare Fund to be credited to Fund
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NATIONAL WELFARE FUND ACT 1943-1952 - SECT. 1.
Short title.
SECT
An Act to establish a National Welfare Fund.
Preamble. BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and
the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, for the purpose
of appropriating the grant originated in the House of Representatives, as
follows:-
Short title amended; No. 32, 1918, s. 2.
1. This Act may be cited as the National Welfare Fund Act 1943-1952.*
NATIONAL WELFARE FUND ACT 1943-1952 - SECT. 2.
Commencement.
SECT
2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the
Royal Assent.*
NATIONAL WELFARE FUND ACT 1943-1952 - SECT. 3.
Definition.
SECT
Substituted by No. 65, 1952, s. 3.
3. In this Act, ''the National Welfare Fund'' or ''the Fund'' means the
Trust Account established by this Act and known as the National Welfare Fund.
NATIONAL WELFARE FUND ACT 1943-1952 - SECT. 4.
Establishment of National Welfare Fund.
SECT
4. (1) There shall be a Trust Account which shall be known as the National
Welfare Fund.
(2) The Trust Account established under the last preceding sub- section
shall be a Trust Account for the purposes of section sixty-two A of the Audit
Act 1901-1934.
NATIONAL WELFARE FUND ACT 1943-1952 - SECT. 5.
Appropriation for purposes of National Welfare Fund.
SECT
Substituted by No. 65, 1952, s. 4.
5. There is payable out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, which is
appropriated accordingly, for the purposes of the National Welfare Fund, in
each financial year, an amount equal to the amount of moneys paid out of the
National Welfare Fund in that financial year.
NATIONAL WELFARE FUND ACT 1943-1952 - SECT. 6.
Application of National Welfare Fund.
SECT
Amended by No. 41, 1945, s. 5; and No. 52, 1950, s. 3.
6. Moneys standing to the credit of the National Welfare Fund shall be
applied in making such payments as are directed by any law of the Commonwealth
to be made from the Fund, in relation to health services, unemployment or
sickness benefits, invalid and age pensions, widows' pensions, family
allowances, or other welfare or social services.*
NATIONAL WELFARE FUND ACT 1943-1952 - SECT. 7.
Interest from National Welfare Fund to be credited to Fund.
SECT
7. Interest from the investment of any moneys standing to the credit of the
National Welfare Fund shall be credited to the Fund.
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NATIONAL WELFARE FUND ACT 1943-1952 - NOTES
NOTES
1. The National Welfare Fund Act 1943-1952 comprises the National Welfare
Fund Act 1943 as amended by the other Acts specified in the following table:
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Number Date of
Act and year Date of
Assent commencement
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National Welfare Fund
Act 1943 No. 12, 1943 20 Mar 1943 20 Mar 1943
National Welfare Fund
Act 1945 No. 41, 1945 11 Oct 1945 1 July 1945
National Welfare Fund
Act 1950 No. 52, 1950 14 Dec 1950 11 Jan 1951
National Welfare Fund
Act 1952 No. 65, 1952 23 Oct 1952 1 July 1952
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2.-S. 6-Payments may be made out of the National Welfare Fund under the
following provisions:
Aged Persons Homes Act 1954-1973, section 10G
Commonwealth and State Housing Agreement Act 1945-1955, section 4
Delivered Meals Subsidy Act 1970-1973, section 10
Home Nursing Subsidy Act 1956-1973, section 7
Homes Savings Grant Act 1964-1973, section 25
National Health Act 1953-1973, section 137
Social Services Act 1947-1973, section 136
States Grants (Deserted Wives) Act 1968, section 5
States Grants (Milk for School Children) Act 1950-1973, section 6
Tuberculosis Act 1948-1973, section 11.
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