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(2) Schedule 1 to the Principal Act is further amended by omitting from paragraph 6 the words "Eighty-two dollars ten cents" and substituting the symbol and figures "$89.10".

Schedule 2.
20. Schedule 2 to the Principal Act is amended—
(a) by omitting the words—
    "RATE FOR SPECIAL PENSIONS—ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY DOLLARS AND TWENTY CENTS PER FORTNIGHT."
   and substituting the words—
    "RATE FOR SPECIAL PENSIONS—$ 128.20 PER FORTNIGHT.";
   (b) by omitting the words "Twenty-six dollars" and substituting the symbol and figures "$29.40"; and
   (c) by omitting the words "Forty-four dollars" and substituting the symbol and figures "$49.80".

Schedule 3.

21. Schedule 3 to the Principal Act is amended—
    (a) by omitting from the words set out in Table A opposite to the words "Widow of the member" the words ", whichever is applicable";
    (b) by omitting from Table A the symbol and figures "$37.00" (wherever occurring) and substituting the symbol and figures "$41.80"; and
    (c) by omitting from Table A the symbol and figures "$18.50" and substituting the symbol and figures "$20.90 ".

Schedule 5.
22. Schedule 5 to the Principal Act is amended by omitting the table in paragraph (1) and substituting the following table: —

Column 1                                                         Column 2   Column 3
Description of Disability                                        Amount     Allowance
                                                                 $ per      $ per
                                                                 fortnight  fortnight
Two arms amputated ....................                          78.20      49.80
Two legs and one arm amputated.............                      78.20      29.40
Two legs amputated above the knee...........                     78.20      29.40
Two legs amputated and loss of eye...........                    78.20      ..
One arm and one leg amputated and one eye destroyed              78.20      ..
One leg and one arm amputated.............                       78.20      ..
One leg amputated above, and one leg amputated below, the knee   33.20      ..
Two legs amputated below the knee...........                     22.40      ..
One arm amputated and one eye destroyed......                    19.30      ..
One leg amputated and one eye destroyed.......                   19.30      ..
One leg amputated above the knee............                     9.60       ..
One leg amputated below the knee............                     5.10       ..
One arm amputated above the elbow..........                      9.60       ..
One arm amputated below the elbow..........                      5.10       ..
Loss of vision in one eye..................                      7.50       ..

Application of certain amendments.
23. In so far as an amendment made by this Part affects instalments of pensions or allowances, the amendment applies in relation to an instalment of a pension or an allowance falling due on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, if that day is a pension pay-day, or, if it is not, on the first 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)