STATUTORY RULES
1967 No. 151
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE INTERIM FORCES BENEFITS ACT 1947-1966.*
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 Interim Forces Benefits Act 1947-1966.
Dated this ninth day of November, 1967.
CASEY
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
G. Colin McKellar
Minister of State for Repatriation.
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Amendments of the Interim Forces Benefits Regulations†
1. Regulation 8 of the Interim Forces Benefits Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—
Meaning of ‘medical treatment’.
“8. For the purposes of this Part, ‘medical treatment’ means any treatment with a view to restoring a person to, or maintaining a person in, physical or mental health or alleviating suffering, and includes—
(a) any accommodation, nursing care or transport in relation to such treatment; and
(b) the supply, renewal and repair of artificial replacements and surgical and other aids and appliances.”.
Increase in amounts of certain allowances.
2. The Interim Forces Benefits Regulations are amended as set out in the First Schedule to these Regulations.
Amendments in relation to decimal currency.
3. The Interim Forces Benefits Regulations are amended as set out in the Second Schedule to these Regulations.
THE SCHEDULES
FIRST SCHEDULE Regulation 2.
Amendments Providing for the Increase in the Amounts or Certain Allowances
Provisions amended | Omit— | Insert— |
Regulation 14 (4.)........... | Two pounds fourteen shillings | Seven dollars seventy cents |
Regulation 14a (3.).......... | Five shillings | Eighty-five cents |
Regulation 14a (4.).......... | Seven shillings and six pence | One dollar twenty-eight cents |
| Two pounds | Six dollars eighty cents |
Regulation 14a (5.).......... | Four pounds | Thirteen dollars sixty cents |
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1967.
† Statutory Rules 1947, No. 108, as amended by Statutory Rules 1948, Nos. 82, 136 and 138; 1950, No. 97; 1951, No. 8; 1953, No. 7; 1961, No. 118; and 1965, No. 127.
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SECOND SCHEDULE Regulation 3.
Amendments in Relation to Decimal Currency
Provisions amended | Omit— | Insert— |
Regulation 15 (1.)........... | Seventy-five pounds | One hundred and fifty dollars |
Regulation 16 (1.)........... | Ten pounds | Twenty dollars |
Regulation 16 (2.)........... | Forty pounds | Eighty dollars |
Regulation 27 (2.)........... | Fifteen pounds | Thirty dollars |
Regulation 28.............. | Twenty-five pounds | Fifty dollars |
| Fifteen pounds | Thirty dollars |
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By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra