STATUTORY RULES
1971 No. 55
REGULATIONS
UNDER THE NATIVE MEMBERS OF THE FORCES BENEFITS ACT 1957-1968.*
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 Native Members of the Forces Benefits Act 1957-1963.
Dated this sixteenth day
of April, 1971.
Paul
Hasluck
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s
Command,
(Sgd.) R. McN. HOLTEN
Minister of State for Repatriation.
Amendments of the Native
Members of the Forces (Torres Strait Islands) Benefits Regulations
Rates of pension.
1. Regulation 14 of the Native Members of the Forces (Torres Strait
Islands) Benefits Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (3.) and
inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—
“(3.)
Where the incapacity of a member is such that he is unable to earn a living
wage by reason that he is unable to engage in a remunerative occupation except
on a part-time basis or intermittently, the amount specified in relation to him
in column 2 of Table B in the First Schedule to these Regulations shall be
deemed to be Fifty-seven dollars.”.
Allownce to compensate for serious
incapacity.
2. Regulation 15a of the Native Members of
the Forces (Torres Strait Islands) Benefits Regulations is amended by omitting
paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the
following sub-regulation:—
“(a) is less than the amount specified in sub-regulation (3.) of
regulation 14 of these Regulations; and”.
First Schedule.
3. The First Schedule to the
Native Members of the Forces (Torres Strait Islands) Benefits Regulations is
amended by omitting from Column 2 of Table A the figures “31.00” and inserting
in their stead the figures “32.00”.
Second Schedule.
4. The Second Schedule to the Native Members of the Forces (Torres Strait
Islands) Benefits Regulations is amended by omitting the words “Seventy-six
dollars” (wherever occurring) and inserting in their stead the words “Seventy-eight
dollars”.
Fourth Schedule.
5. The Fourth Schedule to the
Native Members of the Forces (Torres Strait Islands) Benefits Regulations is
amended by omitting from Column 2 the figures “52.00” (wherever occurring) and
inserting in their stead the figures “54.00”.
* Notified
in the Commonwealth Gazette on 22 April 1971.
Statutory Rules 1955
No. 123, as amended by Statutory Rules 1966, Nos. 83 and 171; 1957, No. 140; 1968,
No. 123; 1969, No. 194; and 1970, No. 151.
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Application.
6. An amendment made by these
Regulations applies in relation to an instalment of a pension that fell due on
the pension pay day immediately following the last pension pay day before the
date of commencement of the Repatriation Act 1971
and to
all subsequent instalments.
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