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

Statutory Rules

1979 No. 175

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-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 (SPECIAL OVERSEAS SERVICE) REGULATIONS2

Treatment for incapacity not due to special service

1. Regulation 32 of the Repatriation (Special Overseas Service) Regulations is amended by inserting after paragraph (aa) of sub-regulation (1) the following paragraphs:

“(ab) was, immediately before 2 November 1978, receiving a rate of pension in respect of pulmonary tuberculosis under the Repatriation Act as so applied;

(ac) by virtue of a claim referred to in section 38 of the Repatriation Acts Amendment Act 1978, has become, or becomes, entitled to a rate of pension in respect of pulmonary tuberculosis under the Repatriation Act as so applied;”.

Application

2. (1) The Repatriation (Special Overseas Service) 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 (Special Overseas Service) Regulations;

 

“medical treatment” has the same meaning as in Division 2 of Part III of the Repatriation (Special Overseas Service) Regulations.

NOTES

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