New Zealand Legislation: Acts

5I Functions of Advisory Board

• The Advisory Board shall have the following powers and functions:

  • (a) on its own initiative or at the request of the Minister to advise the Minister on policies to be applied in respect of war pensions and allowances:

  • (b) to approve guidelines for the determination and assessment of war pensions to be used by medical examiners and claims panels:

  • (c) generally to consider and advise on any other matter which assists the administration of war pensions or that the Minister refers to it:

  • (d) to administer the War Pensions Medical Research Trust Fund established under section 18I:

  • (e) to consider applications for payments from the War Pensions Medical Research Trust Fund, and to determine the persons to whom grants, awards, or fellowships are to be made under section 18L:

  • (f) such other powers and functions as may be conferred or imposed on it by this Act or any other enactment:

  • (g) to make rules for the conduct of its own business.

  Section 5I: inserted, on 1 April 1989, by section 4 of the War Pensions Amendment Act 1988 (1988 No 148).