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War Pensions and Allowances (Mercantile Marine) Amendment Act 1943

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Increasing rates of pensions and allowances.

Special provisions as to persons in receipt of pensions or allowances from any other Government within British dominions.

FIRST SCHEDULE Weekly Rates of Pensions In Case of Death

SECOND SCHEDULE Weekly Rates of Pensions for Total Disability: Ship of any Tonnage

THIRD SCHEDULE Weekly Rates of Allowances for Detention: Ship of any Tonnage

War Pensions and Allowances (Mercantile Marine) Amendment Act 1943

Public Act		1943 No 21
Date of assent		26 August 1943

	Title
1	Short Title and commencement.
2	Increasing rates of pensions and allowances.
3	Special provisions as to persons in receipt of pensions or allowances from any other Government within British dominions.
	FIRST SCHEDULE Weekly Rates of Pensions In Case of Death
	SECOND SCHEDULE Weekly Rates of Pensions for Total Disability: Ship of any Tonnage
	THIRD SCHEDULE Weekly Rates of Allowances for Detention: Ship of any Tonnage

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, 1943, 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 July, nineteen hundred and forty-three.

2 Increasing rates of pensions and allowances.

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.

3 Special provisions as to persons in receipt of pensions or allowances from any other Government within British dominions.

(1)

Subject to the provisions of this section, the War Pensions Board, with the approval of the Minister, may grant a pension or allowance under the principal Act to any member of a mercantile marine other than the New Zealand mercantile marine who is in receipt of a pension or allowance from any Government within the British dominions (other than the Government of New Zealand) in respect of his disablement or detention during the present war.

(2)

The Board may, in like manner, grant a pension or allowance under the principal Act, in respect of the death, disablement, or detention of any member of a mercantile marine other than the New Zealand mercantile marine, to any person who would be a dependant of that member if he were a member of the New Zealand mercantile marine.

(3)

No pension shall be granted under this section to or in respect of any member of a mercantile marine other than the New Zealand mercantile marine unless the Board is satisfied—

(a)

That the member to or in respect of whom the pension or allowance is granted was, immediately prior to the commencement of the present war, a bona fide resident of New Zealand; and

(b)

That the claimant for a pension or allowance under this section is actually resident in New Zealand.

(4)

No pension or allowance shall be granted under this section to any person of such an amount that the total amount receivable by or on account of that person by way of pension or allowance (including any pension or allowance granted out of New Zealand) shall exceed the amount of the pension or allowance that would have been payable to him if the member in respect of whose death, disablement, or detention the pension or allowance is granted had been a member of the New Zealand mercantile marine.

SCHEDULES

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		To each Child.	To the Widow		To each Child.	To the Widow		To each Child.	To the Widow		To each Child.
	Without a Child.	With a Child or Children.	To each Child.	Without a Child.	With a Child or Children.	To each Child.	Without a Child.	With a Child or Children.	To each Child.	Without a Child.	With a Child or Children.	To each Child.
All officers and other ratings	40/-	50/-	10/6
Master				45/-	55/-	10/6
All officers and other ratings				40/-	50/-	10/6
Master							50/-	60/-	10/6
All other certificated officers and certificated engineers, radio officers, ship’s surgeon, and chief purser; chief steward in passenger ships							45/-	55/-	10/6
All other ratings							40/-	50/-	10/6
Master										57/-	67/-	10/6
Chief officer, chief engineer										50/-	60/-	10/6
All other certificated officers and certificated engineers, radio officers, ship’s surgeon, and chief purser; chief steward in passenger ships										45/-	55/-	10/6
All other ratings										40/-	50/-	10/6

SECOND SCHEDULE Weekly Rates of Pensions for Total Disability: Ship of any Tonnage

—	Member.	Wife.	Each Child.
All officers and other ratings	60/-	20/-	10/6

THIRD SCHEDULE Weekly Rates of Allowances for Detention: Ship of any Tonnage

—	Member.			Wife.	Each Child.
—	Total Allowance.	Reserved Portion.	Available Portion.	Wife.	Each Child.
All officers and other ratings	60/-	10/-	50/-	20/-	10/6

War Pensions and Allowances (Mercantile Marine) Amendment Act 1943