SEAMEN’S WAR PENSIONS AND ALLOWANCES.
No. 32 of 1954.
An Act to amend the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Act 1940-1953.
[Assented to 6th October, 1954.]
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 1954.
(2.) The Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Act 1940-1953 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Act 1940-1954.
Commencement.
2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
Deduction from pensions and allowances of certain amounts.
3. Section fifty-five a of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:—
“(2.) Where—
(a) pension, allowance or benefit under the Social Services Consolidation Act 1947, or under that Act as amended, has been paid (whether before or after the commencement of this sub-section) to a person in respect of a period and, on a date subsequent to that payment (not being a date before the commencement of this sub-section), a pension under this Act, or pension under this Act at an increased rate, becomes payable to that person or his spouse in respect of that period; and
(b) the whole or a part of the pension, allowance or benefit paid to that person under the Social Services Consolidation Act 1947, or under that Act as amended, in respect of that period would not have been payable if, during that period, he or his spouse had been in receipt of the pension under this Act, or pension under this Act at the increased rate,
the amount referred to in paragraph (b) of this sub-section shall be deducted from any pension, allowance or gratuity payable to that person under this Act in a lump sum or by instalments, as the Commission determines.”.
First Schedule.
4. The First Schedule to the Principal Act is repealed and the following Schedule inserted in its stead:—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 | .. | 8 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| Exceeding | 0 | 19 | 0 | but | not exceeding | 1 | 0 | 0 | .. | 8 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| Exceeding | 1 | 0 | 0 | but | not exceeding | 1 | 2 | 6 | .. | 8 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| Exceeding | 1 | 2 | 6 | but | not exceeding | 1 | 7 | 6 | .. | 8 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 6 |
| Exceeding | 1 | 7 | 6 | but | not exceeding | 1 | 15 | 0 | .. | 8 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 14 | 6 |
| Exceeding | 1 | 15 | 0 | but | not exceeding | 2 | 2 | 6 | .. | 9 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 6 |
| Exceeding | 2 | 2 | 6 | but | not exceeding | 2 | 10 | 0 | .. | 9 | 13 | 0 | 8 | 13 | 0 | 10 | 13 | 6 |
| Exceeding | 2 | 10 | 0........................................................ | 9 | 16 | 0 | 8 | 16 | 0 | 10 | 16 | 0 |
Application of amendment.
5. 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.