WIDOWS’ PENSIONS.

No. 56 of 1945.

An Act to amend the Widows’ Pensions Act 1942–1944, as amended by the National Welfare Fund Act 1945.

[Assented to 11th October, 1945.]

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 Widows’ Pensions Act 1945.

(2.) Section nine of the National Welfare Fund Act 1945* is amended by omitting sub-section (3.).

(3.) The Widows’ Pensions Act 1942–1944†, as amended by the National Welfare Fund Act 1945, is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(4.) The Principal Act, as amended by. this Act, may be cited as the Widows’ Pensions Act 1942–1945.

Commencement.

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

Rate of pension.

3. Section fifteen of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-section (1.) the words “Eighty-three pounds four shillings” and insetting in their stead the words “Ninety-seven pounds ten shillings”.

Allowances to certain widows.

4. Section twenty-six of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (1.) the words “Twenty-seven shillings” and inserting in their stead the words “One pound twelve shillings and six pence”.

Application of amendments.

5. The amendments effected by this Act shall apply in relation to the instalment of pension falling due on the sixteenth day of October, One thousand nine hundred and forty-five, and to all subsequent instalments.