SEAMEN’S WAR PENSIONS AND ALLOWANCES.

No. 45 of 1957.

An Act to amend the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Act 1940–1955.

[Assented to 15th October, 1957.]

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 1957.

(2.) The Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Act 1940–1955 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 1940–1957.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3. Section two of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section inserted in its stead:—

Parts.

“2. This Act is divided into Parts, as follows:—

Part I.—Preliminary (Sections 1–3).

Part II.—Administration (Sections 4–11).

Part III.—Pensions and Gratuities in Respect of Death or Incapacity (Sections 12–33).

Part VI.—Miscellaneous (Sections 49–59).”.

Notification of marriage or divorce.

4. Section twenty-nine of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end of paragraph (a) of sub-section (1.) the word “and”.

Offences.

5. Section fifty-eight of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-section (1.) the word “allowance” and inserting in its stead the words “allowance or gratuity”.

First Schedule.

6. The First Schedule to the Principal Act is repealed and the following Schedule inserted in its stead:—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.

Application of amendment.

7. The amendment effected by the last preceding section applies in relation to instalments of pensions falling due on the first pension pay day after the date of commencement of this Act and to all subsequent instalments.