War Gratuity Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1920. No. 217.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR GRATUITY ACTS 1920.

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 War Gratuity Acts 1920, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this third day of November, 1920.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

JOSEPH COOK,

Treasurer.

 

Amendment of War Gratuity Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1920, No. 85, as amended by Statutory Rules 1920, Nos. 130, 147, 154, and 170.)

1.—(1) Regulation 3 of the War Gratuity Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (1) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulations:—

“(1) There shall be a Central War Gratuity Board which shall, subject to these Regulations, be the prescribed authority for all the purposes of the Act and these Regulations.

“(1a) The Governor-General may appoint such subordinate Boards as he thinks fit, each of which Boards shall, subject to these Regulations and to the directions of the Governor-General, have all the powers of the prescribed authority under the Act and these Regulations, and shall for the purpose of the exercise of those powers be the prescribed authority.”

(2) This regulation shall be deemed to have come into operation as from the nineteenth day of May, One thousand nine hundred and twenty.

2. Regulation 5 of the War Gratuity Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (1) thereof.

     

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