Statutory Rules

1973 No. 84

REGULATIONS UNDER THE SEAMEN’S WAR PENSIONS AND ALLOWANCES ACT 1940-1973.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over 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 1940-1973.

Dated this fourth day of May, 1973.

PAUL HASLUCK

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

C. K. JONES

Minister of State for Transport.

Amendments of the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Regulations†

Commencement.

1. These Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on the day on which the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Act 1973 received the Royal Assent.

Medical treatment for widows, &c.

2. Regulation 34 of the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (2) the definition of “child” and substituting the following definition:—

“‘child’, in relation to an Australian mariner, includes a person who is in receipt of a pension under sub-section (2) of section 27 of the Act.”.

Allowance to certain widows.

3. Regulation 37 of the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Regulations is amended by inserting in paragraph (c), after the word “child” (first occurring), the words “who is the child of the Australian mariner”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 10 May 1973.

† Statutory Rules 1961, No. 105, as amended by Statutory Rules 1961, No. 145; 1963, No. 120; 1964, No. 107; 1965, No. 89; 1966, No. 110; 1967, No. 44; 1968, Nos. 106 and 120; 1969, Nos. 109 and 179; 1970, Nos. 84 and 155; 1972, Nos. 119 and 194; and 1973, Nos. 27 and 35.