Repatriation Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1979 No. 172

REGULATIONS UNDER THE REPATRIATION ACT 19201

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

Dated this twenty-third day of August 1979.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

EVAN ADERMANN

Minister of State for Veterans’ Affairs

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AMENDMENTS OF THE REPATRIATION REGULATIONS2

Treatment for disease, &c., not due to war service

1. Regulation 66 of the Repatriation Regulations is amended by inserting after paragraph (aa) in sub-regulation (1) the following paragraph:

“(ab) a member who—

(i) was, immediately before 2 November 1978, receiving a war pension in respect of pulmonary tuberculosis; or

(ii) by virtue of a claim referred to in section 38 of the Repatriation Acts Amendment Act 1978, has become, or becomes, entitled to a war pension in respect of pulmonary tuberculosis;’’.

Application

2. (1) The Repatriation Regulations, as amended by these Regulations, apply to and in relation to the provision of medical treatment by a Deputy Commissioner on or after 22 August 1979.

(2) In sub-regulation (1)—

“Deputy Commissioner” has the same meaning as in the Repatriation Regulations;

“medical treatment” has the same meaning as in Part IV of the Repatriation Regulations.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 31 August 1979.

2. Statutory Rules 1943 No. 233 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1979 No. 53 and see also