REPATRIATION (SPECIAL OVERSEAS SERVICE).
No. 108 of 1964.
An Act to amend the Repatriation (Special Overseas Service) Act 1962.
[Assented to 20th November, 1964.]
BE it enacted by the Queen’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 Repatriation (Special Overseas Service) Act 1964.
(2.) The Repatriation (Special Overseas Service) Act 1962 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Repatriation (Special Overseas Service) Act 1962-1964.
Commencement.
2.—(1.) Subject to this section, this Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
(2.) Section five of this Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by Proclamation.
Interpretation.
3. Section three of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in sub-section (1.), after the definition of “special service”, the following definition:—
“‘step-child’, in relation to a member of the Forces, means a step-child of the member, being—
(a) where the member is or was a male person—a child whose father is dead;
(b) where the member is or was a female person—a child whose mother is dead; or
(c) a child the marriage of whose parents has been dissolved and in respect of whom the Commission is satisfied that he or she—
(i) is in the custody, care and control of, or is being maintained by, the member;
(ii) if the member is dead, was in the custody, care and control of, or was being maintained by, the member at the time of the member’s death; or
(iii) if the member, being a male person, is dead, is in the custody, care and control of, or is being maintained by, the member’s widow,
and ‘step-son’ and ‘step-daughter’ have corresponding meanings;”.
Liability of the Commonwealth to pay pensions to members of the Forces.
4. Section six of the Principal Act is amended by omitting paragraph (a) of sub-section (9.) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—
“(a) the law of a country other than the Commonwealth that is or has been a part of the dominions of the Crown; or”.
Regulations.
5. Section fourteen of the Principal Act is amended—
(a) by inserting after sub-section (1.) the following sub-sections:—
“(1a.) Subject to sub-section (1c.) of this section, where medical treatment is provided to a person under the regulations—
(a) in circumstances in which the regulations provide for payment in accordance with this sub-section; or
(b) in any case in which, before the treatment is provided, the Commission, for special reasons, determines that payment should be made in accordance with this subsection and notifies the person accordingly,