EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES NO. 300
ISSUED BY AUTHORITY OF THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR VETERANS’ AFFAIRS
INTERIM FORCES BENEFITS ACT 1947
INTERIM FORCES BENEFITS REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
Under section 9 of the Interim Forces Benefits Act 1947, the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing all matters which by the Act are required or permitted to be prescribed, or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for giving effect to the Act.
The proposed regulations will give effect to the Government’s 1982-83 Budget decision to increase the current rate payable in respect of funeral expenses to $500.
Regulation 28 of the Interim Forces Benefits Regulations provides a monetary grant towards the funeral expenses of a member whose death is due to service, a member who dies in indigent circumstances, in an institution, while proceeding to or from an institution or dies after being discharged while terminally ill from an institution.
The proposed regulations will increase the current monetary grant towards the cost of funeral expenses to $500 in respect of the death of a member that occurs on or after 1 November 1982.