Commonwealth: 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:— Sum of the annual amounts of the pension or retiring allowance and the allowances (if any) payable under sections four and live of this Act. Allowance per annum. Not exceeding £156....................... £26 Exceeding £156 but not exceeding £312......... One-sixthOne-Sixth of the sum of the annual amounts Exceeding £312 but not exceeding £448......... £52 Exceeding £448 but not exceeding £500......... £26, or such amount as will increase the sum of the annual amounts to £500, whichever is the greater Exceeding £500......................... £26 "(2.) The allowances payable under this section are in addition to the allowances payable under the last two preceding sections. "(3.) This section continues in operation until the thirty-first day of December, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-six, and no longer. Allowances to widows. "7. Where the widow of a transferred officer receives a pension by virtue of being his widow, there is payable to her, in addition to the pension, allowances at one-half of the rates of the allowances that would be payable under sections four, five and six of this Act to her husband if he were alive and in receipt of a pension. Appropriation. "8. Allowances under this Act are payable by the Commonwealth out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, which is appropriated accordingly.".