{"id":"C1930A00052","name":"Invalid and Old-age Pensions Appropriation Act 1930","slug":"invalid-and-old-age-pensions-appropriation-act-1930","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"52 of 1930","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":3607,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1930A00052-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-03-30","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Invalid and Old-age Pensions Appropriation Act 1930","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\nmeta-generator: Aspose.Words for .NET 20.2\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\nINVALID AND OLD-AGE PENSIONS APPROPRIATION.\n\n \n\nNo. 52 of 1930.\n\nAn Act to grant and apply out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund a Sum for Invalid and Old-age Pensions.\n\n[Assented to 18th August, 1930.]\n\nPreamble.\n\nBE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, for the purpose of appropriating the grant originated in the House of Representatives, as follows:—\n\nShort title.\n\n1. This Act may be cited as the Invalid and Old-age Pensions Appropriation Act 1930.\n\nAppropriation of £10,000,000 for Invalid and Old-age pensions.\n\n2. There shall be payable out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, which is hereby appropriated accordingly, for the purposes of the Trust Account established under the Audit Act 1901-1926, and known as the Invalid and Old-age Pensions Fund, the sum of Ten million pounds for invalid and old-age pensions.\n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":920},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This is a narrow, single-purpose appropriation act. The scope remains exactly as stated in the title: providing budgetary authority for invalid and old-age pensions. There is no evidence of scope creep or expansion beyond the original intent of funding these specific social security payments."},"complexity_factors":["Only 2 operative sections (short title and appropriation)","No defined terms or interpretation provisions","Simple, unconditional appropriation of a fixed monetary sum","No conditional logic, exceptions, or procedural requirements","Minimal cross-referencing (only mentions the Audit Act 1901-1926 to identify the Trust Account)"],"plain_english_summary":"This law authorises the Australian Government to spend **£10 million** (a substantial sum in 1930) from the national treasury to fund two types of social security payments:\n\n*   **Invalid pensions**: Financial support for people with permanent disabilities who are unable to work\n*   **Old-age pensions**: Retirement income for elderly Australians\n\nThe Act takes money from the **Consolidated Revenue Fund** (the government's main bank account) and places it into a special **Trust Account** called the Invalid and Old-age Pensions Fund. This accounting mechanism ensures these funds can only be used for pension payments and cannot be diverted to other government expenses like infrastructure or defence."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/invalid-and-old-age-pensions-appropriation-act-1930","history":"/api/acts/invalid-and-old-age-pensions-appropriation-act-1930/history","analysis":"/api/acts/invalid-and-old-age-pensions-appropriation-act-1930/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/invalid-and-old-age-pensions-appropriation-act-1930/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/invalid-and-old-age-pensions-appropriation-act-1930/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/invalid-and-old-age-pensions-appropriation-act-1930/documents"}}