STATUTORY RULES.
1948. No. 137.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS’ REPATRIATION
ACT 1920-1948.*
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 Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Act 1920-1948.
Dated this twenty-seventh day of October, 1948.
W. J. McKell
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister of State for Repatriation.
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Amendments of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations.†
Commencement.
1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the twenty-eighth day of October, 1948.
Definitions.
2. Regulation 5 of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (b) of the definition of “child” the words “(not being, in the case of an adopted child, an ex-nuptial child of the member),”.
Reduction of service pensions under section 91a of the Act.
3. After regulation 28 of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—
“28a. Where the rates of the service pensions of a member and his wife are reduced in accordance with paragraph (b) of sub-section (1.) of section 91a of the Act, the respective service pensions of the member and his wife shall, unless in any particular case the Commission otherwise determines, each be reduced by an amount equal to half the excess referred to in that paragraph.”.
Widowed mother.
4. Regulation 32 of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (l.) the words “100s. per fortnight” and inserting in their stead the words “120s. per fortnight”.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1948.
† Statutory Rules 1943, No. 233, as amended by Statutory Rules 1945, No. 48; 1946, No. 182; 1947, Nos. 72, 106, 149 and 169 ; and 1948. Nos. 38, 43, 80 and
5333.—Price 3d. 10/15.10.1948.
Sustenance allowance while undergoing medical treatment, &c.
5. Regulation 71 of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations is amended by omitting from the scale in sub-regulation (1.) the figures “100” and “44” and inserting in their stead the figures “110” and “48”, respectively.
Repeal.
6. Regulations 176b and 176c of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations are repealed.
Allowance to certain incapacitated 1914-1918 members.
7. Regulation 195 of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations is amended by omitting the words “44s. per fortnight” and inserting in their stead the words “48s. per fortnight”.
By Authority. L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.