SEAMEN’S WAR PENSIONS AND ALLOWANCES ACT
(No. 2) 1974
No. 25 of 1974
An Act to amend the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Act 1940-1973, as amended by the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Act 1974.
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, the Senate and the House of Representatives of Australia, as follows:—
Short title and citation.
1.(1) This Act may be cited as the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Act (No. 2) 1974.
(2) The Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Act 1940-1973, as amended by the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Act 1974, is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
(3) Section 1 of the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Act 1974 is amended by omitting sub-section (3).
(4) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Act 1940-1974.
Commencement.
2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
Schedule 1.
3. Schedule 1 to the Principal Act is amended by omitting from column 1 the figures “52.00” and substituting the figures “62.00”.
Application of amendment.
4. The amendment made by this Act applies in relation to an instalment of a pension falling due on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, if that day is a pension pay-day, or, if it is not, on the first pension pay-day after that day, and to all subsequent instalments