Repatriation Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1951. No..

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE REPATRIATION ACT 1920–1950.*

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 Repatriation Act 1920–1950.

Dated this fifteenth day of June, 1951.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Repatriation.

Amendments of the Repatriation Regulations. 

Parts.

1. Regulation 4 of the Repatriation Regulations is amended by omitting the words “ (Regulation 198.) ” and inserting in their stead the words “ (Regulations 198–199.) ”.

2. Division 2 of Part IV. of the Repatriation Regulations is amended by inserting, after regulation 34a, the following regulation :—

Continuation of pension in certain cases during temporary absence from Commonwealth and Territories.

“ 34b. Where a pensioner who is in receipt of a pension assessed in pursuance of regulation 32, regulation 34 or regulation 34a of these Regulations departs for a place outside the Commonwealth and the Territories of the Commonwealth, and, in the opinion of the Commission, his absence is of a temporary nature, the Commission may continue payment of the pension, at the rate assessed, for such period, not exceeding six months, as the Commission determines.”.

3. After regulation 198 of the Repatriation Regulations the following regulation is added :—

Operational areas.

“ 199. For the purposes of warlike operations in Korea after the twenty-sixth day of June, 1950, and in Malaya after the twenty-eighth day of June, 1950, operational areas are—

(a) in relation to the war service of members of the Naval and Air Forces of the Commonwealth—the area of Korea, including the waters contiguous to the coast of Korea for a distance of One hundred nautical miles seaward from the coast ;

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1951

 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; and 1951, No. 7.

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(b)in relation to the war service of members of the Military Forces of the Commonwealth—the area of Korea, including the waters contiguous to the coast of Korea for a distance of ten nautical miles seaward from the coast ; and

(c) in relation to the war service of members of the Military and Air Forces of the Commonwealth—the area of Malaya, including the waters contiguous to the coast of Malaya for a distance of ten nautical miles seaward from the coast.”.

 

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