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pension pay-day after that day, and to all subsequent instalments.

Questions decided by majority vote before Royal Assent.
24. (1) For the purposes of this section, each of the following Authorities is a prescribed Authority:—
(a) the Repatriation Commission;
(b) a Repatriation Board;
(c) a War Pensions Entitlement Appeal Tribunal;
(d) an Assessment Appeal Tribunal.

(2) Where, before the day on which this Act received the Royal Assent, a question arising at a meeting of a prescribed Authority was decided by a majority of votes of members present and voting, that question shall be deemed to have been as validly decided as if section 8, 15 or 77a of the Principal Act as amended by this Act, whichever is the relevant section, had been in force when the question was so decided.

PART III—AMENDMENTS OF THE REPATRIATION (SPECIAL OVERSEAS SERVICE) ACT 1962-1973

Citation.
25. (1) The Repatriation (Special Overseas Service) Act 1962-1973 is in this Part referred to as the Principal Act.
(2) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Repatriation (Special Overseas Service) Act 1962-1974.

Interpretation.
26. Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:—
"(4) For the purposes of this Act, a person residing in Papua New Guinea immediately before it becomes an independent sovereign state shall, until he ceases so to reside, be deemed to be resident in Australia.".

Extension of certain provisions of Repatriation Act.
27. Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended—
(a) by omitting from paragraph (e) of sub-section (3) the word "and"; and
(b) by inserting after paragraph (e) of sub-section (3) the following paragraph:—
          "(ea) the reference in sub-section (5) of section 83 of the Repatriation Act to sub-section (2) of section 6 of that Act shall be read as a reference to sub-section (4) of section 3 of this Act; and".
28. (1) After section 13 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:—

Appropriation for pensions, &c.
   "13a. There are payable out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, which is appropriated accordingly—
      (a) pensions;
      (b) service pensions, allowances and transitional benefits under Division 5 of Part III of the Repatriation Act as applied by section 7; and
      (c) allowances and other pecuniary benefits under the regulations the rate or amount of which, or the maximum rate or amount of which, is fixed—
(i) by the regulations; or
          (ii) by reference to a rate or amount fixed by regulations under the Repatriation Act or by reference to that Act.".
      (2) The appropriation made by section 13a of the Principal Act as amended by this Act shall be deemed to have taken effect on 1 July