INVALID AND OLD-AGE PENSIONS.
No. 27 of 1925.
An Act to amend sections twenty-four, thirty-one, forty-five and forty-seven of the Invalid and Old-age Pensions Act 1908-1923.
[Assented to 26th September, 1925.]
BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—
Short title and citation.
1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Invalid and Old-age Pensions Act 1925.
(2.) The Invalid and Old-age Pensions Act 1908-1923 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Invalid and Old-age Pensions Act 1908-1925.
Commencement
2. This Act shall commence on the eighth day of October One thousand nine hundred and twenty-five.
Limit of pension.
3. Section twenty-four of the Principal Act is amended—
(a) by omitting from sub-section (1.) thereof the words “Forty-five pounds ten shillings” (wherever occurring) and inserting in their stead the words” Fifty-two pounds”; and
(b) by omitting from sub-section (1.) thereof the words “Seventy-eight pounds” and inserting in their stead the words “Eighty-four pounds ten shillings”.
Recommendation by Magistrate.
4. Section thirty-one of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (2.) thereof the word “three” and inserting in its stead the word “four”.
Pensioners in hospitals.
5. Section forty-five of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from the proviso thereto the word “three” and inserting in its stead the word “four”.
Benevolent asylum inmates.
6. Section forty-seven of the Principal Act is amended by omitting therefrom the word “three” and inserting in its stead the word “four”.