Native Members of the Forces (Torres Strait Islands) Benefits Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1966 No.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIVE MEMBERS OF THE FORCES

BENEFITS ACT 1957-1965.*

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 1957-1965.

Dated this twenty-fifth day of November, 1966.

 

CASEY

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. Colin McKellar

Minister of State for Repatriation.

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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, Table B in the First Schedule to these Regulations applies as if the figures ‘42.50’ were substituted for the figures ‘24.00’ in Column 2.”.

First Schedule.

2.The First Schedule to the Native Members of the Forces (Torres Strait Islands) Benefits Regulations is amended by omitting from Table A the following words:—
“Widow of member.............................................................................	24.00”
and inserting in their stead the words—
“Widow of member.............................................................................	26.00”.

Second Schedule.

3. The Second Schedule to the Native Members of the Forces (Torres Strait Islands) Benefits Regulations is amended by omitting the words “Fifty-seven dollars” (wherever occurring) and inserting in their stead the words “Sixty-one dollars”.

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* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1966.

  Statutory Rules 1965, No. 123, as amended by Statutory Rules 1966, No. 83.

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Fourth Schedule.

4. The Fourth Schedule to the Native Members of the Forces (Torres Strait Islands) Benefits Regulations is amended by omitting from Column 2 the figures “33.00” (wherever occurring) and inserting in their stead the figures “37.00”.

Commencement.

5. The amendments made by these Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on the sixth day of October, 1966.

                                    

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