This Act may be cited as the Rehabilitation Amendment Act, 1947, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Rehabilitation Act, 1941 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Subsection five of section two of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding the following words: “For the purposes of this section the term ‘child’ includes a step-child, an adopted child, and an illegitimate child”.

Subsection two of section four of the principal Act, as enacted by section six of the Rehabilitation Amendment Act, 1944, is hereby amended by inserting, after paragraph (f), the following new paragraph:—

For the purposes of subsection two of section ten and subsection one of section eleven of the principal Act the expression “serviceman’s widow” shall be deemed to include the widow of any serviceman or discharged serviceman who has died at any time before or after the passing of this Act, whether or not his death was attributable, directly or indirectly, to his service:

Provided that nothing in this section shall apply at any time after the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and fifty-two.

This section shall apply with respect to every person, not being a discharged serviceman within the meaning of the principal Act, who on or before the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-six, served, whether in New Zealand or elsewhere, as a member of any of His Majesty’s Naval, Military, or Air Forces established elsewhere than in New Zealand, or served in any capacity in any British ship which was not a home-trade ship within the meaning of the Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908, and who, whether before or after the passing of this Act, has lawfully ceased so to serve.

The Board may make available to any person to whom this section applies any training, and any financial assistance in connection therewith, that may be made available by the Board to discharged servicemen under any scheme of trade training at any training centre established and carried on by the Board or any Government Department on behalf of the Board under section twelve of the principal Act.

The provisions of the Legislature Act, 1908, or of the Electoral Act, 1927, or of any other Act, as to the disqualification of members of the General Assembly or of candidates for election as members of Parliament, shall not apply, and shall be deemed not to have applied heretofore, with respect to any payment that has been or may hereafter be received out of public moneys by any such member or candidate by way of subsidy on any salary or wages paid by him, at any time before or after the passing of this Act, pursuant to any contract with the Rehabilitation Board or any agency of the Board for the employment and training of any serviceman or discharged serviceman for the purposes of the principal Act.