Social Services
(No. 2)
No. 152 of 1965
An Act to amend the Social
Services Act 1947–1964, as amended by the Social Services Act 1965,
in relation to Decimal Currency.
[Assented to 18 December, 1965]
BE it enacted
by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—
Short
title and citation.
1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Social Services Act (No. 2)
1965.
(2.) The Social
Services Act 1947–1964, as amended by the Social Services Act 1965,
is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
(3.) Section 1 of the Social Services Act 1965
is amended by omitting sub-section (3.).
(4.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may
be cited as the Social Services Act 1947–1965.
Commencement.
2. This Act shall come
into operation on the fourteenth day of February, One thousand nine hundred and
sixty-six.
Payment
of pensions in instalments.
3. Section 41 of the
Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-section (3.) and inserting in its
stead the following sub-section:—
“(3.) Where a
fortnightly instalment of pension ascertained in accordance with the last
preceding sub-section, as affected by the Currency Act 1965, is not a
multiple of Ten cents, the instalment of pension shall be increased or
decreased to the nearest multiple of Ten cents, except where the instalment is
a multiple of Five cents, in which case the fortnightly instalment shall be
increased by Five cents.”.
Payment
of pensions in instalments.
4. Section 70
of the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-section (3.) and inserting in
its stead the following sub-section:—
“(3.)
Where a fortnightly instalment of pension ascertained in accordance with the
last preceding sub-section, as affected by the Currency Act 1965