Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A03129:schedule:2:p3
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    (c) by omitting from sub-section (7) all the words from and including "mariner" and substituting "mariner is $38.40 per fortnight in respect of each child.".
(2) Section 18 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-section (4a) and substituting the following sub-section:
"(4a) Where—
    (a) an Australian mariner is in receipt of, or is entitled to receive, a pension in respect of war injury; and
    (b) the Commission is satisfied that the provisions of paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 to the Repatriation Act 1920 would apply to the rate at which pension would be payable to the mariner in respect of that incapacity if he or she were entitled to pension under that Act in respect of the incapacity,
the amount specified in column 3 of the table in Schedule 1 to this Act shall be deemed to be $242.00.".

Pension to de facto wife
41. Section 19 of the Principal Act is amended—
    (a) by omitting "or total incapacity";
    (b) by omitting "or wife" (wherever occurring); and
    (c) by omitting ", wife, separated widow or separated wife" and substituting "or separated widow".

Pension of separated widow
42. Section 20 of the Principal Act is amended—
    (a) by omitting from sub-section (1) "or total incapacity";
    (b) by omitting from sub-section (1) "or separated wife";
    (c) by omitting from sub-section (1) ", in the case of a separated wife is, or, in the case of a separated widow,"; and
    (d) by omitting paragraph (2) (a) and substituting the following paragraph:
        "(a) where the separated widow is eligible for a pension by reason of having satisfied the Commission that the Australian mariner was contributing or liable to contribute to her support—the amount that the Australian mariner was contributing, or was liable to contribute, to her support immediately prior to his death; or".

Limit of payments in certain cases
43. Section 24 of the Principal Act is amended—
    (a) by omitting from paragraph (a) "and"; and
    (b) by omitting paragraph (b).

Pensions for limited periods in certain cases
44. Section 27 of the Principal Act is amended—
    (a) by omitting sub-section (1); and
    (b) by omitting sub-section (2).

Pensions to spouses to cease upon dissolution of marriage
45. Section 27a of the Principal Act is repealed.

Pensions to female dependants to cease on marriage or re-marriage
46. Section 28 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the proviso to the section.