Temple Society Trust Fund

No. 112 of 1965

An Act to amend the Temple Society Trust Fund Act 1949.

[Assented to 18 December, 1965]

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 Temple Society Trust Fund Act 1965.

(2.)  The Temple Society Trust Fund Act 1949 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.)  The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Temple Society Trust Fund Act 1949-1965.

Commencement.

2.  This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the twenty-eighth day of October, One thousand nine hundred and forty-nine.

Temple Society Trust Fund.

3.  Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting subsection (2.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-section:—

“(2.)  There shall be paid to the Fund such amounts as have been or are received by the Government of the Commonwealth from the Government of the United Kingdom or otherwise, being—

(a) moneys representing proceeds of the realization of, or compensation in respect of the expropriation of, assets of the Society, of members of the Society or of other persons who owned property in Palestine or Israel; or

(b) interest on moneys referred to in the last preceding paragraph.”.

Application of moneys in Fund.

4.  Section 6 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-section (1.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-section:—

“(1.)  The moneys standing to the credit of the Fund may be applied by the Minister—

(a) in making payments, on such terms and conditions as the Minister thinks fit, to, or for the benefit of, persons referred to in paragraph (a) of sub-section (2.) of section four of this Act, whether those persons are in or outside Australia;

(b) in making, on such terms and conditions as the Minister thinks fit, such other payments to persons in or outside Australia as the Minister considers to be just having regard to—

(i) the considerations set out in the Preamble to this Act;

(ii) the former ownership of assets in relation to which moneys have been received by the Fund; and

(iii) any relevant agreement under which moneys paid to the Fund were or are paid to the Government of the Commonwealth; or

(c) in meeting expenses incurred by the Commonwealth in connexion with, or as incidental to—

(i) the administration of the Fund;

(ii) negotiations for the payment of moneys to the Government of the Commonwealth for payment into the Fund; or

(iii) the immigration to Australia of, or the rehabilitation of, persons to whom, or for whose benefit, a payment has been or may be made out of the Fund.”.