EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Statutory Rules No 334
Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Act 1940
Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Regulations (Amendment)
Issued by the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs
Section 59 of the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Act 1940 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing all matters which are required or permitted by the Act to be prescribed, or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed, for giving effect to the Act.
The Statutory Rules give effect to the Government’s 1988 Budget decision to increase the rates of Clothing Allowance payable under the regulations.
Details of the regulations are set out below.
Regulation 1 - Clothing Allowance
Regulation 38A provides for the payment of an allowance, called Clothing Allowance, to an Australian Mariner whose specified disabilities cause excessive wear and tear on clothing.
Subregulation 1(a) amends the table in regulation 38A(1) to provide for the following increases in the rates of Clothing Allowance -
Item 1 | the allowance increases from $5.80 to $6.20 per fortnight; |
Items 2 and 3 | the allowance would be increased from $3.80 to $4.00 per fortnight; and |
Items 4 and 5 | the allowance would be increased from $2.70 to $2.90 per fortnight. |
Subregulation 1(b) amends subregulation 38A(2) to increase, from $5.80 to $6.20 per fortnight, the rate of Clothing Allowance payable where the use of a crutch or crutches is necessitated by disabilities specified in items 2, 3 and 4 of the table in subregulation 38A(1).
Subregulation 1(c) amends subregulation 38A(4) to increase the maximum amount of Clothing Allowance payable in any period of 12 months from $70.20 to $75.40.
Regulation 2 - Application
Regulation 2 specifies the circumstances to which the amendments made by the Principal Regulations will apply.
Subregulation 2(1) provides that the increased rates of Clothing Allowance under paragraphs 1(a) and (b) are payable on and from payday 15 December 1988.
Subregulation 2(2) provides that the increase made by paragraph 1(c) in the maximum amount of Clothing Allowance payable under subregulation 38A(4) applies to payments made on or after 15 December 1988.