War Gratuity Regulations 1945 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1948. No. 139.

REGULATION UNDER THE WAR GRATUITY ACT 1945-1947.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the War Gratuity Act 1945-1947.

Dated this twenty-seventh day of October, 1948.

W. J. McKELL

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

J. B. CHIFLEY

Treasurer.

 

Amendment of the War Gratuity Regulations 1945.

Payment of war gratuity before due date.

Regulation 19 of the War Gratuity Regulations 1945 is amended—

(a) by omitting from, sub-regulation (2.) the word “member” and inserting in its stead the word “person”;

(b) by omitting from that sub-regulation the words “the member’s service” and inserting in their stead the words “a member’s service”;

(c) by omitting from that sub-regulation the words and figures “sub-regulation (1.) or of sub-regulation (5.)” and inserting in their stead the word and figures “sub-regulation (1.), (5.), (6.) or (9.)”; and

(d) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:—

“(8.) Where a member entitled to a war gratuity has, under the Re-establishment and Employment Act 1945, obtained the maximum amount of any loan to enable him to engage in or resume any occupation, business or practice and the authority making the loan certifies that early payment of the whole or any part of the gratuity is urgently required for the occupation, business or practice of the member and will be of substantial benefit to the member, payment in whole or in part may, at the discretion of the prescribed authority, be made at any time after the date of entitlement.

“(9.) Where a war gratuity is credited in the Register to the account of any person, payment in whole or in part may, at the discretion of a prescribed authority, be made at any time after the date of entitlement if the prescribed authority is satisfied that the gratuity is required to alleviate severe distress or hardship resulting from fire, flood, drought, storm or other natural happening beyond the control of the person entitled to the gratuity.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1948.

  Statutory Rules 1945, No. 176, as amended by Statutory Rules 1940, Nos. 92 and 154; 1947, No. 127; and 1948, No. 66.

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

3734.—Price 3d.  8/6.9.1948.