REPATRIATION (No. 2).
No. 97 of 1956.
An Act to amend the Repatriation
Act 1920-1955, as amended by the Repatriation Act 1956, in
consequence of the enactment of the Repatriation (Far East Strategic
Reserve) Act 1956.
[Assented to 15th November, 1956.]
BE it enacted by the Queen’s
Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—
Short title and citation.
1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Repatriation
Act (No. 2) 1956.
(2.) The Repatriation
Act 1920–1955, as amended by the Repatriation Act 1956, is in this
Act referred to as the Principal Act.
(3.) Section
one of the Repatriation Act 1956 is amended by omitting sub-section
(3.).
(4.) The
Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Repatriation Act 1920–1956.
Commencement.
2. This Act shall come into
operation on the day on which the Repatriation (Far East Strategic
Reserve) Act 1956 comes into operation.
Double pensions.
3. Section fifty of the Principal
Act is amended by omitting sub-section (2.) and inserting in its stead the
following sub-section :—
“(2.) In this section—
‘member of the Forces’ includes—
(a) a person who is a member of
the Forces for the purposes of Division 6, 7, 8 or 9 of this Part; and
(b) a person who is a member of
the Forces for the purposes of the Repatriation (Far East Strategic
Reserve) Act 1956;
‘pension’ includes a pension under the Repatriation
(Far East Strategic Reserve) Act 1956.”.
Definitions.
4. Section eighty-three of the
Principal Act is amended by adding at the end of paragraph (k) of the
definition of “Income” the words “or under either of those Schedules as applied
by section seven of the Repatriation (Far East Strategic Reserve)
Act 1956”.
Restrictions as to dual
pensions.
5. Section eighty-six of the
Principal Act is amended by inserting after paragraph (a) of sub-section
(3.) the following paragraph :—
“(aa) a pension payable under the Repatriation
(Far East Strategic Reserve) Act 1956