Native Members of the Forces (Papua and New Guinea) Benefits Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1964. No. 112.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIVE MEMBERS OF THE FORCES BENEFITS ACT 1957.*

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Native Members of the Forces Benefits Act 1957.

Dated this twenty-seventh day of August, 1964.

E. W. WOODWARD

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

C. E. BARNES

Minister of State for Territories.

 

Amendments of the Native Members of the Forces (Papua and New Guinea) Benefits Regulations 

Rates of pension.

1. Regulation 9 of the Native Members of the Forces (Papua and New Guinea) Benefits Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (l.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(1.) The rates of pension are as follows:—

(a) in respect of a deceased member—the rates ascertained in accordance with Table A in the First Schedule to these Regulations;

(b)in respect of a member who is totally incapacitated—the rates ascertained in accordance with Table B in the First Schedule to these Regulations; or

(c) in respect of a member who is partially incapacitated—

(i) where the incapacity is an incapacity specified in the Second Schedule to these Regulations—the percentage, specified in relation to that incapacity in the Second Schedule to these Regulations, of the rates ascertained in accordance with Table B in the First Schedule to these Regulations; or

(ii) in any other case—the percentage of the rates ascertained in accordance with Table B in the First Schedule to these Regulations that is determined by the Director of Native Affairs having regard to the nature and duration of the incapacity of the member.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 28th August, 1964.

  Statutory Rules 1961, No. 73.

6775/63.—Price 6d.

 

2. After regulation 17 of the Native Members of the Forces (Papua and New Guinea) Benefits Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Allowances to certain widows.

“17a. Subject to such conditions as the prescribed authority determines, an allowance at the rate of Three pounds ten shillings per month is payable to—

(a) a widow of a member who has attained the age of fifty years or is, in the opinion of the prescribed authority, permanently unemployable; or

(b)a widow of a member with a child who has the care and custody of the child or has made arrangements for the care and custody of the child which, in the opinion of the prescribed authority, warrant payment of the allowance, and the child—

(i) is undergoing a course of education or training approved for the purpose of this regulation by the prescribed authority and is not in receipt of, or entitled to be paid, a wage that, in the opinion of the prescribed authority, is an adequate living wage; or

(ii) is under the age of sixteen years.”.

Signature to forms.

3. Regulation 22 of the Native Members of the Forces (Papua and New Guinea) Benefits Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) the word “identiable” and inserting in its stead the word “identifiable”.

Table A.

4. Table A in the First Schedule to the Native Members of the Forces (Papua and New Guinea) Benefits Regulations is amended—

(a)by omitting the figures “6 8 9” and inserting in their stead the figures “10 5 0”;

(b)by omitting the figures “1 3 6” and inserting in their stead the figures “3 9 6”; and

(c) by omitting the figures “2 12 6” and inserting in their stead the figures “4 0 3”.

Table B.

5. Table B in the First Schedule to the Native Members of the Forces (Papua and New Guinea) Benefits Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting the figures “2 12 6” (first occurring) and inserting in their stead the figures “3 3 3”;

(b)by omitting the figures “1 3 6” and inserting in their stead the figures “1 4 6”; and

(c)by omitting the figures “2 12 6” (second occurring) and inserting in their stead the figures “4 0 3”.

Application of amendments.

6. The amendments made by these Regulations in so far as they affect instalments of pension apply in relation to an instalment of pension falling due on the first pension pay-day occurring on or after the date of commencement of these Regulations and to all subsequent instalments.

 

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.