SEAMEN’S WAR PENSIONS AND ALLOWANCES.
No. 70 of 1953.
An Act to amend the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Act 1940-1952.
[Assented to 28th October, 1953.]
BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows :—
Short title and citation.
1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Act 1953.
(2.) The Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Act 1940-1952, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Act 1940-1953.
Commencement.
2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
First Schedule.
3. The First Schedule to the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Act 1940-1952 is repealed and the following Schedule inserted in its stead :—
FIRST SCHEDULE.
Section 18.
General Pension Rates—Death or Total Incapacity.
| Column 1. | Column 2. | Column 3. | Column 4. |
| Rate of Pay per Day of the Australian Mariner. | Pension payable per Fortnight to Widow on Death of Australian Mariner. | Total of Pensions payable per Fortnight to Dependants other than Widow and Children on Death of Australian Mariner. | Pension payable per Fortnight to Australian Mariner upon Total Incapacity. |
| | £ | s. | d. | | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. |
| | | | | Not exceeding | 0 | 19 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 0 |
| Exceeding | 0 | 19 | 0 | but not exceeding | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 0 |
| Exceeding | 1 | 0 | 0 | but not exceeding | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 0 |
| Exceeding | 1 | 2 | 6 | but not exceeding | 1 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 9 | 6 |
| Exceeding | 1 | 7 | 6 | but not exceeding | 1 | 15 | 0 | 7 | 14 | 0 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 8 | 19 | 6 |
| Exceeding | 1 | 15 | 0 | but not exceeding | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 9 | 6 |
| Exceeding | 2 | 2 | 6 | but not exceeding | 2 | 10 | 0 | 8 | 18 | 0 | 8 | 13 | 0 | 9 | 18 | 6 |
| Exceeding | 2 | 10 | 0 | .................................... | 9 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 16 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 0 |
Application of amendment.
4. The amendment effected by the last preceding section applies in relation to payments of pensions falling due on the first pension pay day occurring after the date of commencement of this Act and to all subsequent payments.