STATUTORY RULES
1969 No.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIVE MEMBERS OF THE FORCES
BENEFITS ACT 1957-1968.*
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 Native Members of the Forces Benefits Act 1957-1968.
Dated this twenty-eighth of November, 1969.
Paul Hasluck
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister of State for Repatriation.
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Amendments of the Native Members of the Forces (Torres Strait Islands) Benefits Regulations†
Rates of pension.
1. Regulation 14 of the Native Members of the Forces (Torres Strait Islands) Benefits Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (3.) the figures “48.50” and inserting in their stead the figures “53.00”.
Allowance to compensate for serious incapacity.
2. Regulation 15a of the Native Members of the Forces (Torres Strait Islands) Benefits Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (1.) the words “Forty-eight dollars fifty cents” and inserting in their stead the words “Fifty-three dollars”; and
(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) the words “Six dollars” (wherever occurring) and inserting in their stead the words “Ten dollars”.
Attendant’s allowance for blind and other members.
3. Regulation 16 of the Native Members of the Forces (Torres Strait Islands) Benefits Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the words “Fifteen dollars” and inserting in their stead the words “Seventeen dollars”;
(b) by omitting from sub-regulations (2.) and (3.) the words “Twenty-four dollars” and inserting in their stead the words “Twenty-eight dollars”; and
(c) by omitting from sub-regulations (4.) and (5.) the words “Fifteen dollars” and inserting in their stead the words “Seventeen dollars”.
Benefits and allowances.
4. Regulation 28 of the Native Members of the Forces (Torres Strait Islands) Benefits Regulations is amended—
(a) by inserting in paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (2.), after the word “wife”, the words “or widow”; and
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* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1969.
† Statutory Rules 1965, No. 123, as amended by Statutory Rules 1966, Nos. 83 and 171; 1967, No. 140; and 1968, No. 123.
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(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—
“ (3.) In this regulation, ‘dependant’, in relation to a member and in relation to medical treatment or education and training benefits, includes a person over the age of fifteen years, who would, but for the fact that he is over that age, be a child of the member as defined by regulation 4 of these Regulations.”.
First Schedule,
5. The First Schedule to the Native Members of the Forces (Torres Strait Islands) Benefits Regulations is amended by omitting from Table A the following words:—
“Widow of member.......................................... | 23.00” |
and inserting in their stead the words— | |
“Widow of member.......................................... | 30.00”. |
Second Schedule.
6. The Second Schedule to the Native Members of the Forces (Torres Strait Islands) Benefits Regulations is amended by omitting the words “Sixty-seven dollars” (wherever occurring) and inserting in their stead the words “Seventy-two dollars”.
Fourth Schedule...
7. The Fourth Schedule to the Native Members of the Forces (Torres Strait Islands) Benefits Regulations is amended by omitting from Column 2 the figures “43.00” (wherever occurring) and inserting in their stead the figures “48.00”.
Application.
8. In so far as an amendment made by these Regulations affects instalments of pensions or allowances, the amendment applies in relation to an instalment of a pension or of an allowance, as the case may be, that fell due on the first pension pay day or allowance pay day, as the case may be, after the date of commencement of the Repatriation Act 1969 and to all subsequent instalments.
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