Transferred Officers' Allowances Act 1951 (Cth)

TRANSFERRED OFFICERS' ALLOWANCES.

No. 50 of 1951.

An Act to amend the Transferred Officers' Allowances Act 1948.

[Assented to 11th December, 1951.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, for the purpose of appropriating the grant originated in the House of Representatives, as follows:—

Short title and citation. 1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Transferred Officers' Allowances Act 1951.

(2.) The Transferred Officers' Allowances Act 1948 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act. (3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Transferred Officers' Allowances Act 1948–1951.

Commencement. 2.—(1.) This Act, except section three, shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of October, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-one. (2.) Section three of this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of February, One thousand nine hundred and forty-eight.

Additional allowances. 3. Section four of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (2.) the words ",at the date of commencement of this section, a person was in receipt of, or was" and inserting in their stead the words "a person is in receipt of, or is".

4. After section four of the Principal Act the following section is added:—

Further allowances. "5.—(1.) An allowance at the rate ascertained in accordance' with sub-section (3.), (4.) or (5.), as the case requires, of this section is payable to a transferred officer or a person who receives a pension or retiring allowance of a periodical nature by virtue of section eighty-four of the Constitution, not being a pension or allowance at a rate exceeding Seven hundred and two pounds per annum. "(2.) The allowance is payable under this section in addition to the allowance (if any) payable under the last preceding section. "(3.) Where the sum of the amount of the pension or retiring allowance and the amount of the allowance payable under the last preceding section is at a rate which does not exceed Two hundred and sixty pounds per annum, the allowance is at the rate of one-fifth of that sum. "(4.) Where the sum of the amount of the pension or retiring allowance and the amount of the allowance (if any) payable under the last preceding section is at a rate which exceeds Two hundred and sixty pounds per annum but does not exceed Six hundred and fifty pounds per annum, the allowance is at the rate of Fifty-two pounds per annum. "(5.) Where the amount of the pension or retiring allowance is at a rate which exceeds Six hundred and fifty pounds per annum but is less than Seven hundred and two pounds per annum, the allowance is at such rate as will increase the amount of the pension or retiring allowance to a rate of Seven hundred and two pounds per annum. "(6.) Allowances under this section are payable by the Commonwealth out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, which is appropriated accordingly.".