Repatriation Regulations (Amendment)

STATUTORY RULES 1968 No.122 _________ REGULATIONS UNDER THE REPATRIATION ACT 1920-1968.* I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Repatriation Act 1920-1968. Dated this third day of October , 1968. CASEY Governor-General. By His Excellency’s Command, Minister of State for Repatriation. _______ Amendments of the Repatriation Regulations† Clothing allowance. 1. —(1.) Regulation 180 a of the Repatriation Regulations is amended by omitting the table from sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following table:— Column 1 Column 2 Description of Disability Rate per fortnight $ One leg and one arm amputated ....................................... 1.70 One leg or one arm amputated ........................................ 0.85 Both legs or both arms amputated ...................................... 1.10 One leg amputated (where a tilting table artificial limb must be worn) .............. 1.10 (2.) Regulation 180 a of the Repatriation Regulation is amended— ( a ) by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) the words “One dollar fifty cents” (wherever occurring) and inserting in their stead the words “One dollar seventy cents”; and ( b ) by omitting from sub-regulation (4.) the words “Nineteen dollars fifty cents” and inserting in their stead the words “Twenty-two dollars ten cents”. Commencement. 2. —(1.) The amendments made by these Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on the third day of October, 1968. (2.) In so far as an amendment made by these Regulations affects instalments of clothing allowance, the amendment applies or shall be deemed to have applied, as the case may be, in relation to any instalment of clothing allowance that fell due on the date specified in the last preceding sub-regulation and to all subsequent instalments. ____________________________________________________________________________________ * Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 17 October , 1968. † Statutory Rules 1943, No. 233, as amended by Statutory Rules 1945, No. 48; 1946, No. 182; 1947, Nos. 72, 106, 149 and 169; 1948, Nos. 38, 43, 80, 135 and 137; 1950, No. 96; 1951, Nos. 7 and 58; 1952, Nos. 7, 88 and 101; 1953, No. 6; 1956, Nos. 32, 73 and 101; 1958, No. 22; 1960, Nos. 56 and 60; 1961, Nos. 74 and 139; 1962, No. 93; 1963, Nos. 57 and 104; 1965, No. 124; 1966, Nos. 65 and 168; 1967, No. 150. ________________ By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra 21192/68— Price 5c 9/10.9.68