Statutory Rules
1979 No. 227
REGULATIONS UNDER THE SEAMEN’S WAR PENSIONS AND ALLOWANCES ACT 19401
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 Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Act 1940.
Dated this twenty-fifth day of October 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 SEAMEN’S WAR PENSIONS AND ALLOWANCES REGULATIONS2
Funeral expenses
1. Regulation 38 of the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Regulations is amended by omitting “One hundred dollars” and substituting “$300”.
Clothing allowance
2. Regulation 38a of the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting the table from sub-regulation (1) and substituting the following table:
Column 1 | Column 2 |
Description of disability | Rate per fortnight |
| $ |
One leg and one arm amputated.............. | 3.00 |
One leg or one arm amputated ............... | 1.50 |
Both legs or both arms amputated............. | 2.00 |
One leg amputated (causing essential hip disarticulation) | 2.00 |
(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (2) “Two dollars ten cents” (wherever occurring) and substituting “ $3”; and
(c) by omitting from sub-regulation (4) “Twenty-eight dollars sixty cents” and substituting “$39”.
Commencement and application
3. (1) The amendment made by regulation 1 shall come into operation on 1 November 1979.
(2) The amendment made by regulation 2 applies to any instalment of allowance that falls due on the first allowance pay day occurring after 31 October 1979 and to all subsequent instalments.
NOTES
1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 31 October 1979.
2. Statutory Rules 1961 No. 105 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1979 No. 54 and see also Statutory Rules 1979 Nos. 54 and 117.