Repatriation Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1956. No. 32.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE REPATRIATION ACT 1920-1955.*

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 1920-1955.

Dated this nineteenth day of April, 1956.

W. J. Slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Repatriation.

Amendments of the Repatriation Regulations. 

Commencement.

1.—(1.) Regulation 2 of these Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on the twenty-second day of June, 1951.

(2.) Regulation 3 of these Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on the twenty-seventh day of June, 1950.

Amendment of Statutory Rules 1951. No. 58.

2. Regulation 3 of Statutory Rules 1951, No. 58 is repealed.

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 or the Naval and Air Forces of a part of the Queen’s Dominions other than the Commonwealth, being service before the twentiethday of April, 1956—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;

(b) in relation to the war service of members of the Military Forces of the Commonwealth or the Military Forces of a part of the Queen’s Dominions other than the Commonwealth, being service before the twentieth day of April, 1956—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

 

* 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; and 1953, No. 6.

1641/56.—Price 3d. 9/27.3.1956.

 

(c) in relation to the war service of members of the Military and Air Forces of the Commonwealth or the Military and Air Forces of a part of the Queen’s Dominions other than 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: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.