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day, and to all subsequent instalments.

Questions decided by majority vote before Royal Assent.
47.Where, before the day on which this Act received the Royal Assent, a question arising at a meeting of a Seamen's Pensions and Allowances Committee 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 4 of the Principal Act as amended by this Act had been in force when the question was so decided.

PART VII—AMENDMENTS OF THE NATIVE MEMBERS OF THE FORCES BENEFITS ACT 1957-1972
Citation.
48. (1) The Native Members of the Forces Benefits Act 1957-1972 is in this Part referred to as the Principal Act.
(2) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Papua New Guinea (Members of the Forces Benefits) Act 1957-1974.

Title.
49. The title of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the word "Natives" and substituting the words "Indigenous Inhabitants of Papua New Guinea".

Definitions.
50. Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the definition of "native member of the Forces" and substituting the following definition:—
    "'member of the Forces' means a male indigenous inhabitant of Papua New Guinea or of an island in the Pacific Ocean (other than an island forming part of the territory of a State) who served during the war in the Defence Force at a rate of pay less than the minimum rate of pay that was prescribed as payable to a male member of the Australian Military Forces and whose service has been terminated by discharge or death;".

Omission of word "native" from certain provisions.
51. Sections 4, 5, 6 and 7 of the Principal Act are amended by omitting the word "native" (wherever occurring).

Appropriation for pensions, &c.
52. (1) After section 8 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:—
     "8a. There are payable out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, which is appropriated accordingly, pensions, allowances and other pecuniary benefits under the regulations the rate or amount of which, or the maximum rate or amount of which, is fixed—
(a) by the regulations;
(b) by reference to a rate or amount fixed by the regulations; or
(c) by reference to a rate or amount fixed by regulations under the Repatriation Act 1920-1974.".
(2) The appropriation made by section 8a of the Principal Act as amended by this Act shall be deemed to have taken effect on 1 July 1974.

Regulations.
53. Section 9 of the Principal Act is amended—
(a) by adding at the end of paragraph (a) of sub-section (1) the word "and";
(b) by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-section (1) the