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"the rate per annum specified in sub-section (1b) of section 28 of the Social Services Act 1947-1974".

Restrictions as to dual pensions.
13. Section 86 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (2) the words "service pensions may be granted to the wife and children" and substituting the words "service pension may be granted to the wife".

Persons resident in Papua New Guinea after independence.
14. After section 96 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:—
"96a. (1) This section applies in relation to a service pensioner who is residing in Papua New Guinea after it becomes an independent sovereign state and who is, by virtue of sub-section (2) of section 6 or subsection (5) of section 83, to be deemed to be resident in Australia.
"(2) Where a service pensioner to whom this section applies leaves the country where he is residing, except to go to Australia, without first giving notice to the Commission of his intention so to leave that country, the Commission may cancel his pension.

Supplementary assistance.
15. (1) Section 98a of the Principal Act is amended—
    (a) by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-section (1) the words "Two hundred and sixty dollars" and substituting the words "the amount specified in paragraph (b) of sub-section (1) of section 30a of the Social Services Act 1947-1974";
    (b) by omitting paragraphs (d) and (e) of sub-section (3) and substituting the following paragraphs:—
       "(d) where the amount of his means as assessed is not greater than the maximum amount of means as assessed specified in paragraph (d) of sub-section (3) of section 30a of the Social Services Act 1947-1974—the rate specified in that paragraph; or
       (e) in any other case—an amount per annum equal to the amount by which the amount specified in paragraph (e) of sub-section (3) of section 30a of the Social Services Act 1947-1974 exceeds the amount of his means as assessed.";
    (c) by inserting after sub-section (3a) the following sub-sections:—
    "(3b) Notwithstanding anything contained in this section, allowance by way of supplementary assistance by reason of the payment of rent is not payable to a person at a rate exceeding the rate at which that person pays rent.
    "(3c) Where a person and the wife or husband of that person are persons the rates of whose supplementary allowances are fixed by sub-section (3a), the rent paid by that person shall, for the purposes of sub-section (3b), be deemed to be one-half of the rent paid by that person, by the wife or husband of that person or by both that person and the wife or husband of that person, as the case may be, in respect of their matrimonial home.";