Repatriation Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1956. No. 73.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE REPATRIATION ACT 1920-1956.*

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Repatriation Act 1920-1956.

Dated this seventeenth day of October, 1956.

J. Northcott

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Repatriation.

 

Amendment of the Repatriation Regulations. 

1. Regulation 9 of the Repatriation Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Appointment of trustees, &c.

“9.—(1.) Where the Commission is satisfied that, having regard to the age, infirmity, ill-health or improvidence of a pensioner, it is expedient that payment of a pension or allowance payable to the pensioner should be made to another person on behalf of, or as trustee of, the pensioner, or where a pensioner consents to payment of a pension or allowance payable to him being so made, the Commission may, by instrument in writing—

(a) authorize payment of the pension or allowance to be made to another person on behalf of the pensioner; or

(b) appoint a person to be the trustee, or itself assume the office of trustee, of the pensioner in respect of the pension or allowance.

“(2.) Where the Commission has appointed a person to be the trustee, or has itself assumed the office of trustee, of a pensioner in respect of a pension or allowance, the pension or allowance—

(a) may be paid to the person so appointed, or the Commission, as the case may be; and

(b) may, subject to the directions of the Commission, be disbursed or accumulated by the person so appointed, or may be disbursed or accumulated by the Commission, as the case may be, for the benefit of the pensioner or of any member of the family of, or person dependent on, the pensioner.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1956.

  Statutory Rules 1943, No. 233, as amended by Statutory Rules 1945, No. 48; 1946, No. 182; 1947, Nos. 72, 106, 149 and 169; 1948, Nos. 38, 43, 80, 135 and 137; 1950, No. 96; 1951, Nos. 7 and 58; 1952, Nos. 7, 88 and 101; 1953, No. 6; and 1956, No. 32.

5661/56.—Price 3d. 9/5.10.1956.

 

“(3.) The Commission may at any time, by instrument in writing, revoke an authorization or appointment, or an assumption of the office of trustee, under this regulation.

“(4.) In this regulation,’ pensioner’ means a person to whom a pension or allowance is payable under the Act or these Regulations.”.

Continuation of certain trusts.

2. Every trust continued in existence by sub-section (3.) of section 15 of the Repatriation Act 1956 and subsisting immediately before the commencement of these Regulations shall continue in existence until lawfully determined.

 

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