Maximum rates of Emergency Reserve Corps pensions.

Pensions in respect of children may be continued at former rate in discretion of Board.

Board may terminate pensions in respect of children where family benefit is payable.

Refusal or termination of pensions to women in certain cases.

FIRST SCHEDULE Rates of Pensions in respect of Death of Male Member of Forces

SECOND SCHEDULE Rates of Pensions in respect of Death or Total Disablement of Female Member of Forces

THIRD SCHEDULE Rates of Pensions in respect of Total Disablement of Male Member of Forces

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War Pensions Amendment Act 1946

Public Act		1946 No 17
Date of assent		7 October 1946

An Act to amend the War Pensions Act, 1943.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1 Short Title and commencement.

1943, No. 22

(1)

This Act may be cited as the War Pensions Amendment Act, 1946, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the War Pensions Act, 1943 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

(2)

This Act shall be deemed to have come into force on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-six.

2 Maximum rates of pensions.

(1)

The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing the First, Second, and Third Schedules, and substituting therefor respectively the First, Second, and Third Schedules to this Act.

(2)

Section eighteen of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing subsection one, and substituting the following subsection:—

“(1)

Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, the rates of pensions payable in respect of the death of a male member of the Forces shall not exceed—

“(a)

To the wife, the appropriate rate specified in the second column of the First Schedule hereto, increased, if she has a child or children actually dependent on her, by a mother’s allowance at the rate specified in the third column of the said Schedule:

“(b)

To each child, the rate specified in the fourth column of the said Schedule:

“(c)

To any other dependant, a weekly rate equal to the average weekly value of the benefits in fact received by the dependant from the member within the period of twelve months immediately preceding the date on which he became a member of the Forces.”

(3)

Section nineteen of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing subsection one, and substituting the following subsection:—

“(1)

Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, the rates of pensions payable in respect of the total disablement of a male member of the Forces shall not exceed—

“(a)

To the member, the appropriate rate specified in the second column of the Third Schedule hereto:

“(b)

To the wife, if she has no child actually dependent on her, the appropriate rate specified in the third column of the said Schedule; or, if she has a child or children actually dependent on her, the appropriate rate for a mother’s allowance specified in the fourth column of the said Schedule:

“(c)

To each child, the rate specified in the fifth column of the said Schedule:

“(d)

3 Maximum rates of economic pensions.

Section fifty-one of the principal Act is hereby amended as follows:—

(a)

By omitting from paragraph (b) the words “without any child actually dependent on her”:

(b)

By repealing paragraph (c).

4 Maximum rates of Emergency Reserve Corps pensions.

(1)

Section fifty-six of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from paragraph (a) of subsection two the words “and sixpence”.

(2)

Section fifty-seven of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from paragraph (d) the words “and sixpence”, and also by repealing paragraph (c), and substituting the following paragraph:—

“(c)

To or on account of the wife of a member, if she has no child actually dependent on her, the sum of one pound a week; or, if she has a child or children actually dependent on her, a mother’s allowance at the rate of one pound ten shillings a week:”

5 Pensions in respect of children may be continued at former rate in discretion of Board.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the going provisions of this Act, the Board may, in its discretion, continue any pension payable under the principal Act in respect of any child at the rate at which it was payable on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-six.

6 Board may terminate pensions in respect of children where family benefit is payable.

1938, No. 7

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the principal Act, the Board, in its discretion, may refuse to grant or may terminate any pension in respect of any child where a family benefit in respect of that child is or may become payable under the Social Security Act, 1938.

7 Refusal or termination of pensions to women in certain cases.

Section seventy-five of the principal Act is hereby amended as follows:—

(a)

By adding to subsection one the words “or, being a woman, is living as the wife of a man to whom she is not married”:

1945, No. 12

(b)

By inserting in subsection two, as amended by section four of the War Pensions Amendment Act, 1945, after the words “public estimation”, the words “or, being a woman, is living as the wife of a man to whom she is not married”.

SCHEDULES

FIRST SCHEDULE Rates of Pensions in respect of Death of Male Member of Forces

(First Column.)	(Second Column.)			(Third (Column.)			(Fourth Column.)
Rank or Rating.	To the Wife in every Case, per Week.			To the Wife with a Dependent Child or Children, per Week: (Additional Mother’s Allowance).			To each Child, per Week.
	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	s.	d.
All ranks and ratings below commissioned rank (Army, Navy, and Air Force)	2	0	0	1	10	0	10	0
Commissioned officer not above the rank of Lieutenant (Army); Sub-Lieutenant (Navy); Pilot Officer (Air Force)	2	5	0	1	10	0	10	0
Captain (Army); Lieutenant (Navy); Flying Officer, Flight Lieutenant (Air Force)	2	10	0	1	10	0	10	0
Major (Army); Lieutenant-Commander (Navy); Squadron Leader (Air Force)	2	17	0	1	10	0	10	0
Lieutenant-Colonel (Army); Commander (Navy); Wing Commander (Air Force)	3	6	0	1	10	0	10	0
Colonel (Army); Captain (Navy); Group Captain (Air Force)	3	8	0	1	10	0	10	0
Brigadier, Brigadier-General, Major-General, Lieutenant-General (Army); Commodores, first and second class, Rear-Admiral (Navy); Air Commodore, Air Vice-Marshal, Air Marshal (Air Force)	3	10	0	1	10	0	10	0

SECOND SCHEDULE Rates of Pensions in respect of Death or Total Disablement of Female Member of Forces

(First Column.)	(Second Column.)			(Third Column.)
Rank or Rating.	In the Case of Disablement, to the Member, per Week.			In the Case of Death or Disablement, to each Child, per Week.
	£	s.	d.	s.	d.
Matron (Army Nursing Service), Senior Commander (Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps), First Officer (Women’s Royal New Zealand Naval Service), Squadron Officer (Women’s Auxiliary Air Force), and all ranks and ratings below	3	0	0	10	0
Principal Matron (Army Nursing Service), Chief Commander (Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps), Chief Officer (Women’s Royal New Zealand Naval Service), Wing Officer (Women’s Auxiliary Air Force)	3	1	0	10	0
Matron-in-Chief (Army Nursing Service)	3	3	0	10	0

THIRD SCHEDULE Rates of Pensions in respect of Total Disablement of Male Member of Forces

(First Column.)	(Second Column.)			(Third Column.)			(Fourth Column.)			(Fifth Column.)
Rank or Rating.	To the Member, per Week.			To the Wife without a Dependent Child, per Week.			To the Wife with a Dependent Child or Children, per Week: (Mother’s Allowance).			To each Child, per Week.
	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	s.	d.
Major (Army); Lieutenant-Commander (Navy); Squadron Leader (Air Force); and all ranks and ratings below	3	0	0	1	0	0	1	10	0	10	0
Lieutenant-Colonel (Army); Commander (Navy); Wing Commander (Air Force)	3	1	0	1	10	6	2	0	6	10	0
Colonel (Army); Captain (Navy); Group Captain (Air Force)	3	3	0	1	11	6	2	1	6	10	0
Brigadier, Brigadier-General, Major-General, Lieutenant-General (Army); Commodores, first and second class, Rear-Admiral (Navy); Air Commodore, Air Vice-Marshal, Air Marshal (Air Force)	3	5	0	1	12	6	2	2	6	10	0

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