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War Pensions and Allowances (Mercantile Marine) Amendment Act 1949

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Short Title and commencement.

Maximum rates of pensions and allowances.

Amending provisions as to adopted children.

Schedule

War Pensions and Allowances (Mercantile Marine) Amendment Act 1949

Public Act		1949 No 26
Date of assent		20 October 1949

	Title
1	Short Title and commencement.
2	Maximum rates of pensions and allowances.
3	Amending provisions as to adopted children.
	Schedule

An Act to Amend the War Pensions and Allowances (Mercantile Marine) Act, 1940.

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.

1940, No. 24

(1)

This Act may be cited as the War Pensions and Allowances (Mercantile Marine) Amendment Act, 1949, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the War Pensions and Allowances (Mercantile Marine) Act, 1940 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

(2)

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

2 Maximum rates of pensions and allowances.

1946, No. 18 1947, No. 27

(1)

The principal Act (as amended by the War Pensions and Allowances (Mercantile Marine) Amendment Act, 1946, and by section two of the War Pensions and Allowances (Mercantile Marine) Amendment Act, 1947) is hereby further amended by repealing the First, Second, and Third Schedules, and substituting therefor respectively the First, Second, and Third Schedules set out in the Schedule to this Act.

Repeals. 1946, No. 18 1947, No. 27

(2)

Subsection one of section two of the War Pensions and Allowances (Mercantile Marine) Amendment Act, 1946, and the Second and Third Schedules to that Act, and the War Pensions and Allowances (Mercantile Marine) Amendment Act, 1947, are hereby repealed.

3 Amending provisions as to adopted children.

Section two of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection two the words “any child who has been legally adopted by a member at any time before the date of his death or disablement or the commencement of his detention, and”, and also the words “adopted child or”.

Schedule

“FIRST SCHEDULE “Weekly Rates of Pensions in Case of Death

	Ship Not Over 500 Tons Gross.			Ship Over 500 Tons Gross and Not Over 1,000 Tons Gross.			Ship Over 1,000 Tons Gross and Not Over 5,000 Tons Gross.			Ship Over 5,000 Tons Gross.
	To the Widow in Every Case.	To the Widow With a Dependent Child or Children: (Additional Mother’s Allowance).	To Each Child.	To the Widow in Every Case.	To the Widow With a Dependent Child or Children: (Additional Mother’s Allowance).	To Each Child.	To the Widow in Every Case.	To the Widow With a Dependent Child or Children: (Additional Mother’s Allowance).	To Each Child.	To the Widow in Every Case.	To the Widow With a Dependent Child or Children: (Additional Mother’s Allowance).	To Each Child.
All officers and other ratings	50/-	35/-	10/-
Master				55/-	35/-	10/-
All officers and other ratings				50/-	35/-	10/-
Master							60/-	35/-	10/-
All other certificated officers and certificated engineers, radio officers, ship’s surgeon, and chief purser; chief steward in passenger ships							55/-	35/-	10/-
All other ratings							50/-	35/-	10/-
Master										67/-	35/-	10/-
Chief officer, chief engineer										60/-	35/-	10/-
All other certificated officers and certificated engineers, radio officers, ship’s surgeon, and chief purser; chief steward in passenger ships										55/-	35/-	10/-
All other ratings										50/-	35/-	10/-”

“SECOND SCHEDULE “Weekly Rates of Pensions FOR Total Disability: Ship of Any Tonnage

	Member.	Wife Without a Dependent Child.	Wife With a Dependent Child or Children: (Mother’s Allowance).	Each Child.
All officers and other ratings	70/-	25/-	35/-	10/-”

“THIRD SCHEDULE “Weekly Rates of Allowances for Detention: Ship of Any Tonnage

	Member.			Wife Without a Dependent Child.	Wife With a Dependent Child or Children: (Mother’s Allowance).	Each Child.
	Total Allowance.	Reserved Portion.	Available Portion.	Wife Without a Dependent Child.		Each Child.
All officers and other ratings	70/-	10/-	60/-	25/-	35/-	10/-”

War Pensions and Allowances (Mercantile Marine) Amendment Act 1949