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