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

SEAMEN’S WAR PENSIONS AND ALLOWANCES ACT.

 

SEAMEN’S WAR PENSIONS AND ALLOWANCES REGULATIONS.

 

STATUTORY RULES 1964, No. 107.(a)

 

1. Regulation 25 of the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Regulations is repealed and the following Regulation inserted in its stead:—

Meaning of medical treatment

“25. For the purposes of this Division, ‘medical treatment’ means, subject to such qualifications as the Commission, with respect to any particular case or class of cases, from time to time determines, medicinal, surgical and all other forms of treatment with a view to restoring a person to, or maintaining a person in, physical or mental health or alleviating suffering, and includes, subject to the same qualifications, the supply, renewal and repair of artificial replacements and surgical and other aids and appliances.”.

Sustenance allowance while undergoing medical treatment, &c.

2. Regulation 30 of the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting sub-regulation (3.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(3.) Where a mariner is, with the authority of a Deputy Commissioner for Repatriation, receiving in-patient treatment at a hospital or similar institution for an incapacity due to war injury and the total amount of—

(a) pension payable to the mariner and, if the mariner has a wife and children or a wife or children in respect of his wife and children or wife or children, as the case may be; and

(b)sustenance allowance granted to the mariner under sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation,

during the period for which he is receiving that treatment is less than the total amount of pension payable for a like period to a mariner in receipt of the special rate of pension under section 22A of the Act, and, if the mariner has a wife and children or a wife or children, in respect of his wife and children or wife or children, as the case may be, the Deputy Commissioner may, subject to the directions of the Commission, grant to the mariner a sustenance allowance or an additional sustenance allowance of a sum not exceeding the difference between those amounts.”; and

(b) by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (3A.) the word “service” and inserting in its stead the word “injury”.

 

(a) Made under the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Act 1940-1961 on 20 August, 1964; notified in the Commonwealth Gazette