Children's Allowances (Amendment) Act, 1946

SCHEDULE.

Amendments of the Act of 1944.

Section

How Amended

Section 1

By the deletion of the definitions of “child”, “children's allowance”, “first payment period”, “payment period”, “qualifying date” and “region”.

Section 8, sub-section (1).

By the insertion, after the words “in relation thereto,” of the words “and every question arising in relation to a children's allowance which has been awarded”.

Section 8, sub-section (2).

By the insertion, after the words “children's allowance”, of the words “or claim for a children's allowance”.

Section 9, sub-section (4).

By the insertion in sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (b), after the words “material respect,” of the words, “or by reason of the wilful concealment of a material fact”.

Section 11, sub-section (1).

By the substitution, for the words “during any payment period for a region during which such person was not entitled thereto,” of the words “to which such person was not entitled”;

By the deletion of the words “during such payment period”.

Section 12, sub-section (1).

By the insertion in paragraph (a), after the words “material respect,” of the words “or knowingly conceals any material fact”.

Section 20, sub-section (1).

By the substitution, for sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (e), of the following sub-paragraph:

“(ii) in the case of the death of a person who was qualified for a children's allowance, payment, may be made of any sum which, if a claim for the children's allowance had been allowed immediately before his death, would have become payable on account of the children's allowance up to the date of his death;”.