AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS’ REPATRIATION (No. 2).

No. 96 of 1940.

An Act to amend sections forty-five ad, forty-five ae, forty-five ag and forty-five ao of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Act 1920-1940.

[Assented to 17th December, 1940.]

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 Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Act (No. 2) 1940.

(2.) Section one of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Act 1940 is amended by omitting sub-section (3.).

(3.) The Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Act 1920-1938, as amended by the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Act 1940, is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(4.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Act 1920-1940.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the second day of January, One thousand nine hundred and forty-one..

Grant of service pensions.

3.  Section forty-five ad of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the word “Forty” and inserting in its stead the word “Forty-two”.

Service pension in respect of a member permanently unemployable or suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis.

4. Section forty-five ae of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-section (1.) the word “Forty” and inserting in its stead the word “Forty-two; and

(b) by omitting from that sub-section the word “Thirty-four” (wherever occurring) and inserting in its stead the word “Thirty-six”.

Limit of service pension and income.

5. Section forty-five ag of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (1.) the words “exceed Eighty-four pounds ten shillings per annum” and inserting in their stead the words “exceed per annum the total amount per annum which may be received by a pensioner (not being a permanently blinded person), by way of income and pension, under the Invalid and Old-age Pensions Act 1908-1940”.

Limit of pension where pensioner in a public institution.

6. Section forty-five ao of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (1.) the word “Fourteen” and inserting in its stead the word “Fifteen”.