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

STATUTORY RULES

1968 No.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE SEAMEN’S WAR PENSIONS AND

ALLOWANCES ACT 1940-1968*

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 Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Act 1940-1968.

Dated this third day of October, 1968.

 

CASEY

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Shipping and Transport.

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Amendments of the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Regulations 

Clothing allowance.

1.—(1.) Regulation 38a of the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Regulations is amended by omitting the table from sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following table:—

Column 1	Column 2
Description of Disability	Rate per fortnight
$.
One leg and one arm amputated........................................................................................................................................	1.70
One leg or one arm amputated........................................................................................................................................	0.85
Both legs or both arms amputated........................................................................................................................................	1.10
One leg amputated (where a tilting table artificial limb must be worn)........................................................................................................................................	1.10

 

(2.) Regulation 38a of the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) the words “One dollar fifty cents” (wherever occurring) and inserting in their stead the words “One dollar seventy cents”; and

(b)by omitting from sub-regulation (4.) the words “Nineteen dollars fifty cents” and inserting in their stead the words “Twenty-two dollars ten cents”.

Commencement.

2.—(1.) The amendments made by these Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on the third day of October, 1968.

(2.) In so far as an amendment made by these Regulations affects instalments of clothing allowances, the amendment applies or shall be deemed to have applied, as the case may be, in relation to any instalment of clothing allowance that fell due on the date specified in the last preceding sub-regulation and to all subsequent instalments.

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* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1968.

  Statutory Rules 1961, No. 145, as amended by Statutory Rules 1963, No. 120; 1964, No. 104; 1965, No. 89; 1966, No. 110; and 1968, No.

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By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra

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