This Act may be cited as the Social Security Amendment Act, 1947, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Social Security Act, 1938 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Except as otherwise hereinafter provided, this Act shall be deemed to have come into force on the first day of October, nineteen hundred and forty-seven.

With the written consent of the Minister of Social Security, the Commission may from time to time, either generally or particularly, delegate to any Registrar or other officer of the Department such of its powers under Part II of the principal Act as it thinks fit.

Subject to the provisions of this section and to any general or special directions given or conditions attached by the Commission, the officer to whom any powers are delegated under this section may exercise those powers in the same manner and with the same effect as if they had been conferred on him directly by this section and not by delegation.

Every person purporting to act pursuant to any delegation under this section shall be presumed to be acting in accordance with the terms of the delegation in the absence of proof to the contrary.

Any delegation under this section may be made to a specified officer or to officers of a specified class, or may be made to the holder or holders for the time being of a specified office or class of offices.

Any delegation under this section may be at any time revoked by the Commission, in whole or in part, and no such delegation shall prevent the exercise of any power by the Commission.

Any applicant or beneficiary affected by any decision made by any officer in the exercise of any powers conferred on him by delegation under this section may, within three months after the communication of the decision to him, appeal therefrom to the Commission.

The Commission shall review every decision appealed from as aforesaid, and may at any time, of its own motion, review any other decision made by any officer in the exercise of any powers conferred on him by delegation under this section, and in any such case the Commission may, in accordance with the provisions of the principal Act, confirm, vary, or revoke the decision.

Section thirteen of the principal Act, as amended by section four of the Social Security Amendment Act, 1945, is hereby further amended by omitting from subsection two the words “one hundred and four pounds”, and substituting the words “one hundred and seventeen pounds”.

Section four of the Social Security Amendment Act, 1945, is hereby repealed.

Section sixteen of the principal Act, as amended by section five of the Social Security Amendment Act, 1945, is hereby further amended by omitting from subsection one the words “one hundred and four pounds”, and substituting the words “one hundred and seventeen pounds”.

Section five of the Social Security Amendment Act, 1945, is hereby repealed.

Section seventeen of the principal Act, as amended by section six of the Social Security Amendment Act, 1945, is hereby further amended as follows:—

Paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of subsection one of section six of the Social Security Amendment Act, 1945, are hereby repealed.

Section nineteen of the principal Act, as amended by section eight of the Social Security Amendment Act, 1945, is hereby further amended by omitting from the proviso the words “one hundred and fifty-six pounds”, and substituting the words “one hundred and sixty-nine pounds”.

Section eight of the Social Security Amendment Act, 1945, is hereby amended by repealing paragraph (b) of subsection one and subsection two.

Section twenty-two of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from paragraph (b) of subsection two the words “or whose husband is for the time being detained as a voluntary boarder under Part V of that Act”, and substituting the words “or whose husband is for the time being detained in an institution under that Act, whether as a voluntary boarder or otherwise”.

Section twenty-three of the principal Act (as set out in section two of the Social Security Amendment Act, 1946) is hereby amended by omitting from paragraph (a) the words “one hundred and four pounds”, and substituting the words “one hundred and seventeen pounds”.

Section twenty-seven of the principal Act, as amended by section fifteen of the Social Security Amendment Act, 1943, is hereby further amended by omitting the words “forty pounds nineteen shillings”, and substituting the words “fifty-two pounds”.

Section fifteen of the Social Security Amendment Act, 1943, is hereby repealed.

Section thirty-four of the principal Act (as set out in section eighteen of the Social Security Amendment Act, 1945) is hereby amended as follows:—

Section thirty-five of the principal Act, as amended by section nineteen of the Social Security Amendment Act, 1945, is hereby further amended by omitting from the proviso the words “two hundred and sixty pounds”, and substituting the words “two hundred and seventy-three pounds”.

Section nineteen of the Social Security Amendment Act, 1945, is hereby repealed.

Section forty-one of the principal Act (as set out in section twenty-one of the Social Security Amendment Act, 1945) is hereby amended by omitting the words “one hundred and four pounds” wherever they occur, and substituting in each case the words “one hundred and seventeen pounds”.

Section forty-four of the principal Act, as amended by section twenty-two of the Social Security Amendment Act, 1945, is hereby further amended by omitting the words “seventy-eight pounds”, and substituting the words “ninety-one pounds”.

Section twenty-two of the Social Security Amendment Act, 1945, is hereby repealed.

Subsection two of section forty-six of the principal Act (as set out in section twenty-three of the Social Security Amendment Act, 1945) is hereby amended as follows:—

Section fifty-two of the principal Act, as amended by section twenty-five of the Social Security Amendment Act, 1945, is hereby further amended as follows:—

Section fifty-seven of the principal Act, as amended by section twenty-eight of the Social Security Amendment Act, 1945, is hereby further amended by omitting the words “one hundred and four pounds”, and substituting the words “one hundred and seventeen pounds”.

Section twenty-eight of the Social Security Amendment Act, 1945, is hereby repealed.

Nothing in paragraph (a) of section sixty-two of the principal Act shall prevent the Commission from paying, in its discretion, a family benefit in respect of any child of a member of any of His Majesty’s Naval, Military, or Air Forces.

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

Section sixty-seven of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing subsection two, and substituting the following subsection:—

Where any person, while in the service in any capacity of the Government of New Zealand, is liable for the payment of social security charge in respect of any period during which he is not in New Zealand (whether by reason of his being deemed to be ordinarily resident in New Zealand or otherwise), then, for the purposes of Part II of the principal Act,—

Nothing in subsection one of this section shall be construed to modify in any way the provisions of subsections one, two, and three of section seventy of the principal Act (which relate to the effect of absence on the right to receive benefits).

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

Section eighty-two of the principal Act is hereby amended as follows:—

Section eighty-nine of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting in subsection one, before the word “medicines”, and also before the word “drugs”, the word “prescribed”.