Seamen's War Pensions and Allowances Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1970 No. 155

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE SEAMEN’S WAR PENSIONS AND ALLOWANCES ACT 1940-1970.*

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 Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Act 1940-1970.

Dated this first day of October, 1970.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Shipping and Transport.

 

Amendments of the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Regulations 

Sustenance allowance while undergoing medical treatment, &c.

1. Regulation 30 of the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances 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 for Repatriation may, subject to the succeeding provisions of this regulation and to the directions of the Commission, grant to the mariner, 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 mariner under the First Schedule to the Act upon his total incapacity; or

(d) if the mariner has a wife and children or a wife or children, the total of the rates of pension that would be payable to the mariner under the First Schedule to the Act, and in respect of his wife and children, or wife or children, under section 18 of the Act, upon his total incapacity,

less the rate of any pension payable to the mariner, or the total of the rates of any pensions payable to the mariner and to his wife and children or wife or children (excluding, in the case of the pension payable to the mariner, any part of the rate of that pension that is attributable to section 22b of the Act, or, by virtue of section 22a of the Act, to the Fifth Schedule to the Repatriation Act 1920-1970).”.

Allowance to certain widows.

2.—(1.) Regulation 37 of the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Regulations is amended by omitting the words “Fifteen dollars” and inserting in their stead the words “Sixteen dollars”.

(2.) The amendment made by the last preceding sub-regulation applies in relation to an instalment of an allowance that fell due on the first allowance pay day after the date of commencement of the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Act 1970 and to all subsequent instalments.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 15 October, 1970.

  Statutory Rules 1961, No. 105, as amended by Statutory Rules 1961, No. 145; 1963, No. 120; 1964, No. 107; 1965, No. 89; 1966, No. 110; 1967, No. 44; 1968, Nos. 106 and 120; 1969, Nos. 109 and 179; and 1970, No. 84.

 

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