Transferred Officers' Allowances Act 1954 (Cth)

TRANSFERRED OFFICERS' ALLOWANCES.

No. 8 of 1954.

An Act to amend the Transferred Officers' Allowances Act 1948-1951.

[Assented to 20th April, 1954.]

BE it enacted by the Queen'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 1954. (2.) The Transferred Officers' Allowances Act 1948-1951 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 1948-1954.

Commencement. 2. This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the thirty-first day of October, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-three.

Definitions. 3. Section three of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in the definition of "transferred officer", after the word "entitled", the words ",whether by virtue of section eighty-four of the Constitution or by virtue of a law of the Commonwealth,".

Additional allowances. 4. Section four of the Principal Act is amended by omitting subsections (2.) and (3.).

Further allowances. 5. Section five of the Principal Act is amended— (a) by omitting from sub-section (1.) the words "or a person who receives a pension or retiring allowance of a periodical nature by virtue of section eighty-four of the Constitution" and inserting in their stead the words "who receives a pension or a retiring allowance of a periodical nature"; and (b) by omitting sub-section (6.). 6. After section five of the Principal Act the following sections are added:—

Further allowances from 31st October, 1953. "6.—(1.) There is payable to a transferred officer who receives a pension or a retiring allowance of a periodical nature an allowance at the appropriate rate set out in the second column of the following table:—