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

STATUTORY RULES

1970 No. 152.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE REPATRIATION (SPECIAL OVERSEAS SERVICE) ACT 1962-1968.*

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 (Special Overseas Service) Act 1962-1968.

Dated this first day of October, 1970.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By Hit Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Repatriation.

 

Amendments of the Repatriation (Special Overseas Service) Regulations

Commencement.

1. Regulations 3 and 4 of these Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on the date of commencement of the Repatriation Act (No. 2) 1970.

Substance allowance while undergoing medical treatment, etc.

2. Regulation 36 of the Repatriation (Special Overseas Service) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) all the words after paragraph (b) and inserting in their stead the words—

“a Deputy Commissioner may, subject to the succeeding provisions of this regulation and to the directions of the Commission, grant to the member, for the period for which he is so prevented, sustenance allowance at a rate not exceeding—

(c) the rate of pension that would be payable to the member under the First Schedule to the Repatriation Act as applied by the Act upon his total incapacity; or

(d) if the member has a wife and children or a wife or children, the total of the rates of pension that would be payable to the member under the First Schedule to the Repatriation Act as so applied, and in respect of his wife and children, or wife or children, under the Third Schedule to that Act as so applied, upon his total incapacity,

less the rate of any pension payable to the member under that First Schedule, or the total of the rates of any pensions payable to the member under that First Schedule and to his wife and children or wife or children under that Third Schedule.”.

Allowance for severely incapacitated members.

3. Regulation 52 of the Repatriation (Special Overseas Service) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (d) of sub-regulation (2.) the word “or” (last occurring); and

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 15 October 1970.

  Statutory Rules 1963, No. 43, as amended by Statutory Rules 1965, No. 126; and 1966, Nos. 141 and 170.

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(b) by inserting in sub-regulation (2.), after paragraph (d), the following paragraph:—

“(da) has been blinded; or”.

Interpretation.

4. Regulation 53 of the Repatriation (Special Overseas Service) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (a) the word “and” (last occurring); and

(b) by adding at the end thereof the following word and paragraph:—

“;and (c) a member shall be deemed to have been blinded if his eyesight is, in the opinion of the Commission, so defective that he has no useful sight.”.

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