FINANCIAL RELIEF.

No. 66 of 1938.

An Act to amend sections twenty-seven and twenty-eight of the Financial Relief Acts 1936.

[Assented to 10th December, 1938.]

[Date of Commencement 7th January, 1939.]

BE it enacted by the King’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 Financial Relief Act 1938.

(2.) The Financial Relief Act 1936, as amended by the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Act 1936 and by the Financial Relief Act (No. 2) 1936, is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Financial Relief Act 1936–1938.

Conditions of payment.

2. Section twenty-seven of the Principal Act is amended by adding in paragraph (a), after the word “date”, the words “or such later date as the Minister, in any exceptional case, determines”.

Payments to primary producers in Territories.

3. Section twenty-eight of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end of paragraph (b) of the proviso thereto the words “or such later date as the Minister, in any exceptional case, determines”.