Re-establishment and Employment Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1947. No. .

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE RE-ESTABLISHMENT AND EMPLOYMENT ACT 1945.*

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 Re-establishment and Employment Act 1945.

Dated the Second day of July 1947.

W.J. McKell

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

 

Minister of State for Post-war Reconstruction.

 

Amendment of the Re-establishment and Employment Regulations.

1. After regulation 14 of the Re-establishment and Employment Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Business re-establishment allowance.

“15. Sub-section (3.) of section one hundred and one of the Principal Act is repealed and the following sub-section and section are inserted in its stead:—

‘(3.) The rate per week of a business re-establishment allowance shall be such as the prescribed authority determines, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, including the income of the person concerned (whether from the occupation, business or practice or from any other source), but shall not exceed the appropriate rate of the allowance specified in the next succeeding section.

Rate of business re-establishment allowances.

‘101a.—(1.) The rate of a business re-establishment allowance shall, except in the case of a person engaged in an agricultural occupation, be—

(a) in the case of a man—Two pounds fifteen shillings per week;

(b)in the case of a woman who is, in the opinion of a prescribed authority, capable of wholly or substantially maintaining herself by her own efforts—Two pounds fifteen shillings per week; and

(c) in the case of a woman who is, in the opinion of a prescribed authority, capable of partially maintaining herself by her own efforts—such proportion of the amount specified in the last preceding paragraph as the prescribed authority determines.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1947

  Statutory Rules 1945, No. 181, as amended by Statutory Rules 1946, Nos. 14, 57, 85, 130, 165, 167 and 177; and 1947, Nos. 12 and 52.

3408.—Price 3d. 10/9.6.1947.

‘(2.) The rate of a business re-establishment allowance payable under the last preceding sub-section shall be increased, or further increased, as the case may be—

(a)in the case of a person with one or more adult dependants—by One pound two shillings per week; and

(b)in the case of a person with one or more dependent children—by Nine shillings per week in respect of each dependent child, but not exceeding in the aggregate One pound seven shillings per week in the case of a person with an adult dependant, or Two pounds five shillings in any other case.

‘(3.) The rate of a business re-establishment allowance, in the case of a person engaged in an agricultural occupation, shall be as prescribed under Part III. of this Act.’.”.

Commencement.

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the first day of July, 1947.

 

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