Repatriation (Special Overseas Service) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1980 No. 3241

 

Repatriation (Special Overseas Service) Regulations2(Amendment)

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 (Special Overseas Service) Act 1962.

Dated 29 October 1980.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

EVAN ADERMANN

Minister of State for Veterans’ Affairs

Treatment for incapacity not due to special service

 1. Regulation 32 of the Repatriation (Special Overseas Service) Regulations is amended —

• (a)

  by omitting from paragraph (d) of sub-regulation (1) “or”; and

• (b)

  by inserting after paragraph (d) the following paragraph:

  • “(da)

    as the result of war service, is suffering from a disability described in column 1 of Schedule 5 to the Repatriation Act as so applied; or”.

Attendance Allowance

 2. Regulation 40 of the Repatriation (Special Overseas Service) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (3) “loss of earnings allowance in respect of a period under regulation 71” and substituting “an allowance in respect of a period under regulation 71 or 72A”.

Application of certain provisions of the Repatriation Regulations

 3. Regulation 66A of the Repatriation (Special Overseas Service) Regulations is amended —

• (a)

  by omitting from sub-regulation (1) “and 72” and substituting “, 72, 72A and 72B”;

• (b)

  by omitting from paragraph (e) of sub-regulation (2) “or paragraph 71 (10) (a)” and substituting “, paragraph 71 (10) (a) or regulation 72A”;

• (c)

  by omitting from paragraph (e) of sub-regulation (2) “and”; and

• (d)

  by adding at the end of sub-regulation (2) the following paragraphs:

  • “(g)

    a reference in regulation 72A to medical treatment shall be read as a reference to medical treatment within the meaning of section 14 of the Repatriation (Special Overseas Service) Act 1962; and

  • “(h)

    sub-regulation 72A (10) shall have effect as if paragraph (b) were omitted.”.

Commencement

 4.(1)Subject to sub-regulation (2), these Regulations shall come into operation on 1 November 1980.

 (2) Regulation 1 shall come into operation on 13 November 1980.

Notes

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 31 October 1980.

2. Statutory Rules 1963 No. 43 as amended by Statutory Rules 1965 No. 126; 1966 Nos. 141 and 170; 1970 No. 152; 1972 No. 188; 1973 Nos. 153 and 285; 1974 No. 59; 1975 No. 95; 1977 No. 169; 1978 No. 187; 1979 Nos. 115, 175 and 226.