REPATRIATION (FAR EAST STRATEGIC RESERVE) ACT 1956
- Reprinted as at 19 December 1973 (HISTACT2 CHAP 316 #DATE 19:12:1973)
REPATRIATION (FAR EAST STRATEGIC RESERVE) ACT 1956-1973 - TABLE OF
PROVISIONS
TABLE
REPATRIATION (FAR EAST STRATEGIC RESERVE) ACT 1956-1973
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section
1. Short title
2. Commencement
3. Interpretation
4. Extension of Act to Territories
5. Divisions 8 and 9 of Part III of Repatriation Act not to apply to
Malayan service of members of the Forces
6. Liability of the Commonwealth to pay pensions to members of the
Forces
7. Extension of certain provisions of Repatriation Act
8. Pensions payable to certain dependent females
9. Pension to divorcee of member
10. Limitations on pensions to dependants of female members
11. Maximum rates of pensions where death, &c., attributable partly
to
other service
12. Delegation
13. Regulations
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REPATRIATION (FAR EAST STRATEGIC RESERVE) ACT 1956-1973 - SECT. 1.
Short title.
SECT
served in Malaya with, or in connexion with, the British Commonwealth Far East
Strategic Reserve, and for purposes connected therewith.
Short title amended; No. 32, 1918, s. 2.
1. This Act may be cited as the Repatriation (Far East Strategic Reserve)
Act 1956-1973.*
REPATRIATION (FAR EAST STRATEGIC RESERVE) ACT 1956-1973 - SECT. 2.
Commencement.
SECT
2. This Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by
Proclamation.*
REPATRIATION (FAR EAST STRATEGIC RESERVE) ACT 1956-1973 - SECT. 3.
Interpretation.
SECT
Sub-section (1) amended by No. 107, 1964, s. 3; No. 81, 1972, s. 3; No. 4,
1973, s. 3; and No. 216, 1973, s. 3.
3. (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears-
''adopted'', in relation to a child, means adopted in accordance with the
law of a State, a Territory or another country;
''Board'' means a Repatriation Board constituted under the Repatriation
Act;
''dependant'' means, in relation to a male member of the Forces, a dependant
specified in paragraph (b) of sub-section (2) of section seven of this Act
and, in relation to a female member of the Forces, a dependant specified in
paragraph (c) of that sub-section;
''Malaya'' means the Federation of Malaya and the Colony of Singapore;
''Malayan service'' means, in relation to a member of the Forces, the
service of the member, after the commencement of this Act, while-
(a) a member of, or attached to, a body, unit or detachment of the
Naval, Military or Air Forces at a time when it was allotted for duty in
Malaya as part of, or in association with, the Australian Contingent, British
Commonwealth Far East Strategic Reserve; or
(b) allotted for duty in Malaya, in connexion with the Far East
Strategic Reserve, with any Naval, Military or Air Forces of a part of the
Queen's dominions other than the Commonwealth,
but does not include service as a member of the Naval Forces in the
complement of a sea-going vessel;
''member'' or ''member of the Forces'' means a person who, while a member of
the Defence Force, has served on Malayan service;
''pension'' means a pension under this Act, and includes the amounts and
allowances specified in the Schedules to the Repatriation Act as applied by
section seven of this Act;
''port'' includes airport;
''the Commission'' means the Repatriation Commission established by the
Repatriation Act;
''the Far East Strategic Reserve'' means the British Commonwealth Far East
Strategic Reserve;
''the Repatriation Act'' means the Repatriation Act 1920-1956.
(2) For the purposes of this Act, the Malayan service of a member of the
Forces shall be deemed to have commenced-
(a) if he was in Australia at the time when he was allotted for duty of the
kind referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of the definition of ''Malayan
service'' in the last preceding sub-section, whichever is applicable-at the
time of his departure from the last port of call in Australia by reason of the
allotment or at the time of the commencement of this Act, whichever was the
later; or
(b) if he was outside Australia at the time when he was so allotted-at the
time of the allotment or at the time of the commencement of this Act,
whichever was the later.
(3) For the purposes of this Act-
(a) where a member of the Forces has returned to Australia, his Malayan
service shall, subject to the next succeeding paragraph, be deemed to have
ended at the time of his arrival at the first port of call in Australia; and
(b) where a member of the Forces has been allotted for duty in an area
outside Australia other than Malaya and has proceeded to that area, before or
after the allotment, without first returning to Australia, his Malayan service
shall be deemed to have ended at the time of his arrival in that area or, if
he was in that area at the time of the allotment, at that time.
Inserted by No. 90, 1962, s. 3.
(3A) Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this section, the Malayan
service of a member of the Forces does not include service after the
commencement of the Repatriation (Special Overseas Service) Act 1962.
Substituted by No. 4, 1973, s. 3.
(4) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears, ''child'', ''member
of the family'', ''parents'', ''step-daughter'', ''step-son'', ''widow'' and
''wife'' have the same respective meanings as in Part III of the Repatriation
Act except that, for the purposes of this sub-section, a reference in that
Part to a member of the Forces shall be read as a reference to a member of the
Forces for the purposes of this Act.
REPATRIATION (FAR EAST STRATEGIC RESERVE) ACT 1956-1973 - SECT. 4.
Extension of Act to Territories.
SECT
Amended by No. 216, 1973, s. 3.
4. This Act extends to all the Territories.
REPATRIATION (FAR EAST STRATEGIC RESERVE) ACT 1956-1973 - SECT. 5.
Divisions 8 and 9 of Part III of Repatriation Act not to apply to Malayan
service of members of the Forces.
SECT
5. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Repatriation Act, Divisions 8
and 9 of Part III of that Act do not apply to or in relation to members of the
Forces in respect of service which constitutes Malayan service for the
purposes of this Act.
REPATRIATION (FAR EAST STRATEGIC RESERVE) ACT 1956-1973 - SECT. 6.
Liability of the Commonwealth to pay pensions to members of the Forces.
SECT
6. (1) Upon the incapacity or death of a member of the Forces whose
incapacity or death has resulted from an occurrence that happened during the
member's Malayan service (including the contracting of a disease during that
service), the Commonwealth is, subject to this Act, liable to pay to the
member, or the dependants of the member, or both, as the case may be, pensions
in accordance with Division 1 of Part III of the Repatriation Act as applied
by the next succeeding section.
(2) Subject to the next succeeding sub-section, the Commonwealth is not
liable under the last preceding sub-section if the incapacity or death of a
member-
(a) was due to the member's serious default or wilful act;
(b) arose from intentionally self-inflicted injuries; or
(c) arose from, or from an occurrence that happened during the commission
of, a serious breach of discipline by the member.
(3) Where the death of a member is, in the opinion of the Commission, due to
venereal disease contracted during Malayan service, the last preceding
sub-section does not affect the liability of the Commonwealth to pay pensions
to the widow and children, or widower and children, as the case may be, of the
member.
(4) Where the origin of the cause of an incapacity or the death of a member
of the Forces existed before the commencement of the member's Malayan service
and, in the opinion of the Commission or a Board-
(a) the incapacity from which the member is suffering was contributed to in
any material degree, or has been aggravated, by the conditions of the member's
Malayan service or the member's death has been contributed to in any material
degree by those conditions; and
(b) neither the incapacity or death, nor the origin of the cause of the
incapacity or death, was due to the member's serious default or wilful act,
the incapacity or death shall be deemed to have resulted from an occurrence
that happened during the member's Malayan service.
(5) A pension is not payable to or in relation to a member for any period
before the termination of the service in respect of which the liability of the
Commonwealth to pay pension arises.
(6) Where a pension is granted, the Commission or a Board may, subject to
this Act, approve of the payment of the pension as from a date not more than
three months before the date of lodgment of the claim for pension.
(7) The right conferred by this Act on a member of the Forces to payment by
way of pension in respect of an incapacity, or on a person other than the
member to payment by way of pension in respect of the death or incapacity of a
member, is in substitution for the right (if any) of that member or that other
person to a payment in respect of the incapacity, or the incapacity or death
of the member, as the case may be, to which, but for this sub-section, he
would have been entitled under the Naval Defence Act 1910-1952, the Defence
Act 1903-1956 or the Air Force Act 1923-1956, and any such right of the member
or other person under any of those Acts is, by force of this sub-section,
determined.
Amended by No. 107, 1964, s. 4.
(8) If the member or a dependant of the member is entitled under-
(a) the law of a country other than the Commonwealth that is or has been a
part of the dominions of the Crown; or
(b) the law of a State,
to receive any payment in respect of incapacity or death resulting from
employment in connexion with warlike operations in which the Sovereign is or
has been engaged, the rate or the amount of that payment shall be taken into
account in assessing the rate of pension payable under this Act, so that the
total payments to the member, or the dependants of the member, or both, as the
case may be, shall not exceed the total payments to which they respectively or
collectively would be entitled if eligible solely under this Act.
REPATRIATION (FAR EAST STRATEGIC RESERVE) ACT 1956-1973 - SECT. 7.
Extension of certain provisions of Repatriation Act.
SECT
7. (1) Subject to this Act, the provisions of Divisions 1 to 4 (inclusive)
of Part III (other than section twenty-four, sub-sections (3) and (4) of
section thirty-seven and sections forty-two, forty-four and fifty-four) and
sections one hundred and fourteen, one hundred and fourteen A, one hundred and
nineteen, one hundred and twenty A and one hundred and twenty B of, and the
Schedules to, the Repatriation Act extend to and in relation to-
(a) members of the Forces within the meaning of this Act; and
(b) the dependants of those members.
Amended by No. 81, 1972, s. 4; and No. 4, 1973, s. 4.
(2) In the application, by virtue of the last preceding sub-section, of the
provisions of the Repatriation Act specified in that sub-section-
(a) a reference to a member of the Forces or to a member shall be read as a
reference to a member of the Forces within the meaning of this Act;
(b) a reference to dependants shall be read, in relation to male members of
the Forces, as a reference to-
(i) the wife or widow of a member;
(ii) the widowed mother of an unmarried member;
(iii) a child of a member of the Forces;
(iv) a parent of a deceased member who is at any time after the death of
the member without adequate means of support;
(v) any other member of the family of a member who was wholly or partly
dependent upon his earnings at any time during his Malayan service;
(vi) an ex-nuptial child of a son or daughter of a member, being an
ex-nuptial child wholly or partly dependent upon the earnings of the member at
any time during the member's Malayan service; and
(vii) a parent or grandparent of a member who is an ex-nuptial child,
being a parent or grandparent wholly or partly dependent upon the earnings of
the member at any time during his Malayan service;
(c) a reference to dependants shall be read, in relation to female members
of the Forces, as a reference to-
(i) the husband or widower of a member who was married to the member
before or during her Malayan service;
(ii) a child of a member of the Forces; and
(iii) such other members of the family of a member, or, in the case of a
member who is an ex-nuptial child, such of the parents or grandparents of the
member, as were wholly or partly dependent upon her earnings at the time of
the commencement of, or at any time during, her Malayan service;
(d) a reference to war service shall be read as a reference to Malayan
service; and
(e) a pension under this Act shall be deemed to be a pension under Division
1 of Part III of the Repatriation Act.
Added by No. 4, 1973, s. 4.
(3) Section 120C of the Repatriation Act applies in relation to a pension,
allowance or other benefit under this Act or the regulations as if it were a
pension, allowance or other benefit under that Act.
REPATRIATION (FAR EAST STRATEGIC RESERVE) ACT 1956-1973 - SECT. 8.
Pensions payable to certain dependent females.
SECT
8. (1) Where-
(a) a person was, both at the time of the commencement of the Malayan
service of a member of the Forces and at the time of the happening, during
that service, of an occurrence (including the contracting of a disease) that
resulted in his death or incapacity, recognized as the wife of the member,
though not legally married to him; and
(b) the Commission is satisfied that that person was wholly or partly
dependent upon the earnings of the member at those times,
a pension under this Act may be paid to that person at a rate not exceeding
the rate of pension that would have been payable to her under this Act if she
had been legally married to the member.
(2) A pension may be paid under this section in addition to any pension
payable to the wife or widow, as the case may be, of the member.
REPATRIATION (FAR EAST STRATEGIC RESERVE) ACT 1956-1973 - SECT. 9.
Pension to divorcee of member.
SECT
9. Where, at the time of the happening during a member's Malayan service of
an occurrence (including the contracting of a disease) that resulted in his
incapacity or death, a person who had been the wife of the member but had been
divorced was dependent upon alimony payable by the member, a pension under
this Act may, on discontinuance of the payment of the alimony, be paid to that
person at a rate equal to-
(a) the amount of the alimony; or
(b) the rate of pension which would have been payable to her if she had not
been divorced,
whichever is the less.
REPATRIATION (FAR EAST STRATEGIC RESERVE) ACT 1956-1973 - SECT. 10.
Limitations on pensions to dependants of female members.
SECT
10. (1) A pension under this Act shall not be granted or continued to a
dependant of a female member of the Forces, being a dependant who is not a
child of the member, unless-
(a) where the pension is in respect of the incapacity of the member-the
member is being paid, or, in the case of a deceased member, was immediately
before her death being paid, a pension at a rate not less than fifty per
centum of the rate for total incapacity and the dependant is wholly or
substantially dependent upon the member or would, but for the death or
incapacity of the member, be so dependent; or
(b) where the pension is in respect of the death of the member-the
dependant would, but for the death of the member, be so dependent,
and, where the dependant is the husband of the member, unless the husband is,
by reason of physical or mental incapacity, unable to earn a livelihood, is
without adequate means of support and is not separated from the member.
(2) A pension under this Act shall not be granted or continued to a
dependant of a female member of the Forces, being a dependant who is a child
of the member, unless the member is dead and the child is without adequate
means of support or, if the member is not dead, unless-
(a) the father or step-father of the child-
(i) is, by reason of physical or mental incapacity, unable to earn a
livelihood and is without adequate means of support; or
(ii) is dead or is separated or divorced from, or has deserted, the
member; and
(b) the child is wholly or substantially dependent upon the member and is
without adequate means of support.
REPATRIATION (FAR EAST STRATEGIC RESERVE) ACT 1956-1973 - SECT. 11.
Maximum rates of pensions where death, &c., attributable partly to other
SECT
service.
11. Where the incapacity or death of a member was, or the incapacity and
death of a member were both, attributable partly to the Malayan service of the
member and partly to the service of the member in or in connexion with-
(a) the present war within the meaning of section twenty-three of the
Repatriation Act;
(b) the war within the meaning of section one hundred of that Act; or
(c) the warlike operations in Korea or Malaya before the commencement of
this Act,
the Commonwealth is not liable to pay to a person, in respect of the
incapacity or death, pensions at rates which, in the aggregate, exceed the
rate at which pension would be payable to that person if the incapacity or
death, or both the incapacity and death, as the case may be, were attributable
wholly to the Malayan service of the member.
REPATRIATION (FAR EAST STRATEGIC RESERVE) ACT 1956-1973 - SECT. 12.
Delegation.
SECT
Sub-section (1) amended by No. 216, 1973, s. 3.
12. (1) The Commission may, with the approval of the Minister, by writing
under its seal delegate any of its powers and functions under this Act (except
this power of delegation), or under the provisions of the Repatriation Act as
applied by section seven of this Act, in relation to a matter or class of
matters, or to a State or Territory, so that the delegated powers and
functions may be exercised by the delegate with respect to the matter or class
of matters, or with respect to the State or Territory, specified in the
instrument of delegation.
(2) A delegation under the last preceding sub-section is revocable in
writing at will and does not prevent the exercise of a power or function by
the Commission.
REPATRIATION (FAR EAST STRATEGIC RESERVE) ACT 1956-1973 - SECT. 13.
Regulations.
SECT
Sub-section (1) amended by No. 90, 1962, s. 4; No. 93, 1966, s. 3; and No. 81,
1972, s. 5.
13.* (1) The Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with
this Act, prescribing all matters which by this Act are required or permitted
to be prescribed, or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for
carrying out or giving effect to this Act and, in particular, prescribing
matters for or in relation to-
(a) the granting of assistance and benefits to-
(i) members of the Forces;
(ii) children (including step-children, adopted children and ex-nuptial
children) of members of the Forces, whether children as defined by section
three of this Act or not;
(iii) dependants (as defined by the regulations), other than children,
of members of the Forces; and
(iv) persons to whom section eight of this Act applies;
(aa) the granting of assistance by way of payment of funeral expenses in
respect of any of the persons referred to in the last preceding paragraph;
and
(b) prescribing penalties not exceeding a fine of Fifty dollars or
imprisonment for three months for offences against the regulations.
Inserted by No. 107, 1964, s. 5.
(1A) Subject to sub-section (1C) of this section, where medical treatment
is provided to a person under the regulations-
(a) in circumstances in which the regulations provide for payment in
accordance with this sub-section; or
(b) in any case in which, before the treatment is provided, the Commission,
for special reasons, determines that payment should be made in accordance with
this sub-section and notifies the person accordingly,
the person is liable to pay to the Commonwealth, as a debt due to the
Commonwealth, such reasonable charges in respect of the treatment as the
Commission notifies to him in writing.
Inserted by No. 107, 1964, s. 5.
(1B) Regulations made in pursuance of paragraph (a) of the last preceding
sub-section may provide for payment in accordance with that sub-section in any
case in which-
(a) a person (whether before, during or after the provision of the
treatment) recovers or receives; or
(b) the Commission or a delegate of the Commission (whether before, during
or after the provision of the treatment) notifies a person that the person is,
in the opinion of the Commission or the delegate, as the case may be, entitled
to recover or receive,
the whole or a part of the cost of the treatment, by way of damages or
compensation, from another person.
Inserted by No. 107, 1964, s. 5.
(1C) Sub-section (1A) of this section does not apply in relation to medical
treatment in respect of a condition giving rise to an incapacity in respect of
which the Commonwealth-
(a) is liable to pay pension under this Act to the person;
(b) would be so liable if the incapacity were great enough to warrant a
pension assessment; or
(c) would be so liable but for sub-section (8) of section six of this Act.
(2) The regulations may make provision for or in relation to-
(a) the payment of any pension or allowance to a person on behalf of, or as
trustee of, the person to whom the pension or allowance is payable under this
Act where the Commission or a delegate of the Commission is satisfied that,
having regard to the age, infirmity, ill-health or improvidence of the person
to whom the pension or allowance is payable under this Act, it is expedient
that payment of the pension or allowance should be so made, or where the
person to whom the pension or allowance is payable under this Act consents to
payment of the pension or allowance being so made; and
(b) the disbursement or accumulation of a pension or allowance so paid for
the benefit of the person to whom it is payable under this Act or of members
of the family of that person or of persons dependent on him.
Added by No. 107, 1964, s. 5.
(3) In this section, ''medical treatment'' means any treatment with a view
to restoring a person to, or maintaining a person in, physical or mental
health or alleviating suffering, and includes-
(a) any accommodation, nursing care or transport in relation to such
treatment; and
(b) the supply, renewal and repair of artificial replacements and surgical
and other aids and appliances.
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REPATRIATION (FAR EAST STRATEGIC RESERVE) ACT 1956-1973 - NOTES
NOTES
1. The Repatriation (Far East Strategic Reserve) Act 1956-1973 comprises the
Repatriation (Far East Strategic Reserve) Act 1956 as amended by the other
Acts specified in the following table:
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Number Date of
Act and year Date of
Assent commencement
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Repatriation (Far East
Strategic Reserve) Act
1956 No. 91, 1956 15 Nov 1956 1 Sept 1957 (see
Gazette 1957, p.
2631)
Repatriation (Far East
Strategic Reserve) Act
1962 No. 90, 1962 14 Dec 1962 28 May 1963 (a)
Repatriation (Far East
Strategic Reserve) Act
1964 No. 107, 1964 20 Nov 1964 S. 5: 6 Aug 1965
(see Gazette
1965,
p. 3401)
Remainder:
Royal Assent
Statute Law Revision
(Decimal Currency) Act
1966 No. 93, 1966 29 Oct 1966 1 Dec 1966
Repatriation (Far East
Strategic Reserve) Act
1972 No. 81, 1972 27 Sept 1972 27 Sept 1972
Repatriation (Far East
Strategic Reserve) Act
1973 No. 4, 1973 16 Mar 1973 16 Mar 1973
Statute Law Revision Act
1973 No. 216, 1973 19 Dec 1973 31 Dec 1973
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(a) By section 2 of the Repatriation (Far East Strategic Reserve) Act 1962
that Act commenced on the day on which the Repatriation (Special Overseas
Service) Act 1962 commenced. The last-mentioned Act commenced on a date fixed
by Proclamation. The date fixed was 28 May 1963 (see Gazette 1963, p. 1869).
2. Section 13 was amended by section 5 of the Repatriation (Far East
Strategic Reserve) Act 1964. Section 6 of that Act provides as follows:
''6. Where assistance or a benefit granted to a person on or after the
first day of September, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven, and before
the eleventh day of May, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-three, is of a
kind that could validly have been granted to the person on that last-mentioned
date under regulations under the Repatriation (Far East Strategic Reserve) Act
1956-1962 in force on that last-mentioned date, then, for the purpose of
validating the grant of the assistance or benefit-
(a) those regulations shall be deemed to have been in force on the date on
which the grant was made; and
(b) the grant shall be deemed to have been made in accordance with those
regulations.''