War Gratuity Regulations 1945 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1948. No..

REGULATION UNDER THE WAR GRATUITY ACT 1945-1947.*

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

Dated this ninth day of June, 1948.

W. J. McKell

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Treasurer.

 

Amendment of the War Gratuity Regulations 1945.

Payment of War Gratuity before due date.

1. Regulation 19 of the War Gratuity Regulations 1945 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:—

“ (6.) 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 the Central Board, be made at any time after the date of entitlement if the Board is satisfied that that person may be unable to receive the benefit of the gratuity if payment is not made before the duo date of payment.

“ (7.) Where a person entitled to a war gratuity dies on or after the date of entitlement and a prescribed authority is satisfied that any person is experiencing hardship resulting from the incidence of the funeral expenses or debts of the deceased, payment of an amount of the war gratuity not exceeding the amount of those expenses or debts may be made to the estate of the deceased at any time after the date of entitlement.’.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1948.

  Statutory Rules 1945, No. 176, as amended by Statutory Rules 1946, Nos. 92 and 154; and 1947, No. 127.

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

586.—Price 3d.  8/30.1.1948.