REPATRIATION ACT (No. 2) 1974
No. 24 of 1974
An Act to amend
the Repatriation Act 1920-1973, as amended by the Repatriation Act 1974,
and to appropriate the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the purpose of certain
payments resulting from those amendments.
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, the Senate and the House
of Representatives of Australia, as follows:—
Short title and citation.
1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Repatriation Act (No. 2) 1974.
(2) The Repatriation Act 1920-1973 as amended by the Repatriation Act 1974 is in this Act referred to as the
Principal Act.
(3) Section 1 of the Repatriation Act 1974 is amended by omitting sub-section
(3).
(4) The Principal Act, as amended by this
Act, may be cited as the Repatriation Act 1920-1974.
Commencement.
2.This
Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
Transitional benefit for the aged blind
3. Section 98aaa
of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (2) the words “One
hundred and fifty-six dollars” and substituting the figures “$78”.
Schedule 1.
4. Schedule
1 to the Principal Act is amended by omitting from column 2 of the table the
figures “52” and substituting the figures “62”.
Application of certain amendments
5. In
so far as an amendment made by this Act affects instalments of pensions or
allowances, the amendment applies in relation to an instalment of a pension or
of an allowance falling due on the day on which this Act receives the Royal
Assent, if that day is a pension pay-day, or, if it is not, on the first
pension pay-day after that day, and to all subsequent instalments.
Appropriation.
6. (1)
The Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated to the extent necessary for the
purposes of such expenditure in pursuance of the Principal Act as amended by
this Act as results from this Act, being expenditure on or before 30 June 1975.
(2). Sub-section (1) does not prevent the
issue and application of moneys, for the purposes referred to in that
sub-section, in pursuance of an appropriation made by an Act other than this
Act (whether passed before or after this Act receives the Royal Assent).