Statutory Rules

1979 No. 54

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-ninth day of March 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

Commencement

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on 2 April 1979.

2. Part I of the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following regulations:

Application of section 8a of the Act

“4a. Section 8a of the Act applies in relation to—

(a) the Seamen’s Pensions and Allowances Committees;

(b) the Repatriation Commission;

(c) the Appeal Tribunals; and

(d) the Assessment Appeal Tribunals.

Prescribed matters for the purposes of section 8a of the Act

“4b. Each matter referred to in sub-paragraph 5 (a) (i) or (iv) or paragraph 5 (d) of the Act is declared to be a prescribed matter for the purposes of section 8 A of the Act.”.

Repeal of regulations 10a and 10aa

3. Regulations 10a and 10aa of the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Regulations are repealed.

Repeal of regulation 43a

4. Regulation 43a of the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Regulations is repealed.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 30 March 1979.

2. 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; 1973 Nos. 27, 35, 84 and 290; 1975 No. 97; 1977 No. 170; and 1978 No. 188.