RETURNED SOLDIERS SETTLE
MENT (AMENDMENT) ACT.
Act No. 24, 1917.
An Act to make further provision for the settlement of re turned or discharged soldiers and sailors ; to provide for and maintain training farms for such soldiers and sailors ; to amend the Returned Soldiers Settlement Act, 1916, the Crown Lands Consolidation Act, 1913, the Closer Settlement Acts, the Closer Settlement Promotion Act, 1910, and the Acts amending those Acts ; and for purposes consequent thereon or incidental thereto. [Assented to, 7th November, 1917.]
lative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legis
Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—
1 . This Act may be cited as the " Returned Soldiers Settlement (Amendment) Act, 1917."
2 . Section two of the Returned Soldiers Settlement Act, 1916, is repealed and the following is inserted in its place:—
2. (1) I n this Act unless the context otherwise requires " discharged soldier " means—
(a)
any person who being or having been a resident in the Commonwealth of Australia enlisted as a member of the naval or military forces of the Commonwealth for service outside the said Commonwealth, or enlisted in the United Kingdom, or in any of His Majesty's Dominions for service in His Majesty's naval or military forces, and has served in such forces in the present war
outside the Commonwealth ; (b)
(b)
any person who being or having been resident in the said Commonwealth enlisted in the naval or military forces of the said Commonwealth for active service abroad in the present war, but whose service was eon lined to the said Commonwealth, and who, in the opinion of a classification committee, was unable,through circumstances not within his own control, to serve abroad as aforesaid;
and in either such case—
(c) has received his discharge, and is resident in the Commonwealth.
The Minister may extend the above definition to include any person who, not being or having been resident in the said Commonwealth, enlisted as a member of the naval or military forces of the United Kingdom or of any of His Majesty's dominions, and has served in such forces in the said war outside the country where he enlisted, and has received his discharge and is resident in the Commonwealth:
Provided that the above definition shall not include any person whose discharge from service was due to misconduct or incapacity resulting from his own default.
(2) Unless the context necessarily requires a different meaning, expressions defined in the Crown Lands Consolidation Act, 1913, the Closer Settlement Acts, or the Irrigation Act, 1912, shall bear the same meaning in this Act.
3 . The following new section is inserted next after
section three of the same Act:—'
3A. I t shall be lawful for the Minister to issue to any discharged soldier or to any person applying under section…