Statutory Rules
1979 No. 174
REGULATIONS UNDER THE REPATRIATION (FAR EAST STRATEGIC RESERVE) ACT 19561
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Repatriation (Far East Strategic Reserve) Act 1956.
Dated this twenty-third day of August 1979.
ZELMAN COWEN
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
EVAN ADERMANN
Minister of State for Veterans’ Affairs
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AMENDMENTS OF THE REPATRIATION (FAR EAST STRATEGIC RESERVE) REGULATIONS2
Treatment for incapacity not due to Malayan service
1. Regulation 32 of the Repatriation (Far East Strategic Reserve) Regulations is amended by inserting after paragraph (aa) in sub-regulation (1) the following paragraphs:
“(ab) was, immediately before 2 November 1978, receiving a rate of pension in respect of pulmonary tuberculosis under the Repatriation Act as so applied;
(ac) by virtue of a claim referred to in section 38 of the Repatriation Acts Amendment Act 1978, has become, or becomes, entitled to a rate of pension in respect of pulmonary tuberculosis under the Repatriation Act as so applied;”.
Application
2. (1) The Repatriation (Far East Strategic Reserve) Regulations, as amended by these Regulations, apply to and in relation to the provision of medical treatment by a Deputy Commissioner on or after 22 August 1979.
(2) In sub-regulation (1)—
“Deputy Commissioner” has the same meaning as in the Repatriation (Far East Strategic Reserve) Regulations;
“medical treatment” has the same meaning as in Division 2 of Part III of the Repatriation (Far East Strategic Reserve) Regulations.
NOTES
1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 31 August 1979.
2. Statutory Rules 1963 No. 40 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1979 No. 114 and see also Statutory Rules 1979 No. 114.