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

Statutory Rules

1979 No. 226

REGULATIONS UNDER THE REPATRIATION (SPECIAL OVERSEAS SERVICE) ACT 19621

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 this twenty-fifth day of October 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 (SPECIAL OVERSEAS SERVICE) REGULATIONS2

Commencement

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 November 1979.

Expenses of travelling for medical treatment or pension purposes

2. Regulation 39 of the Repatriation (Special Overseas Service) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (4) “ $45.00 ” and substituting “ $82.30 ”;

(b) by omitting from sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (4) “$ 22.50 ” and substituting “ $41.15 ”;

(c) by omitting from sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (4) “ $34.00 ” and substituting “ $69 ” and;

(d) by omitting from sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (4) “ $17.00 ” and substituting “ $34.50 ”.

Funeral expenses of deceased members

3. Regulation 49 of the Repatriation (Special Overseas Service) Regulations is amended by omitting paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (1) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(c) who dies—

(i) in an institution;

 

(ii) while proceeding to or from an institution; or

(iii) after being discharged while terminally ill from an institution with the approval of the Deputy Commissioner,

being an institution to which he had been authorized to proceed for the purposes of medical treatment or investigation under Division 2 of this Part (other than regulation 32a) or medical treatment under regulation 65a of the Repatriation Regulations.”.

NOTES

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

2. Statutory Rules 1963 No. 43 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1979 No. 115 and see also