{"id":"C1913L00298","name":"Maternity Allowance Regulations","slug":"maternity-allowance-regulations","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"298 of 1913","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":20558,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1913L00298-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Maternity Allowance Regulations","content":"STATUTORY RULES\n\n1913\\. No. 298.\n\nREGULATION UNDER THE MATERNITY ALLOWANCE ACT 1912.\n\nI, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Maternity Allowance Act 1912 to come into operation forthwith. Such Regulation shall supersede the Provisional Regulation (Statutory Rules 1913, No. 58) under the said Act made the 21st day of February, One thousand nine hundred and thirteen.\n\nDated this 18th day of November, One thousand nine hundred and thirteen.\n\nDENMAN,\n\nGovernor-General.\n\nBy His Excellency’s Command,\n\nJOHN FORREST,\n\nTreasurer.\n\n\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\n\nAll persons now or hereafter authorized to register births in the Northern Territory shall be Commonwealth Registrars for the purpose of registering births in connexion with claims under the Maternity Allowance Act 1912.\n\nPrinted and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer for the State of Victoria.\n\nC. 15807.—Price 3d.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":2047},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The regulation performs exactly the administrative function contemplated by the parent Act—appointing registrars to handle birth registrations for maternity allowance claims in the Northern Territory. It has not expanded beyond the machinery necessary to implement the Act's payment scheme."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative provision consisting of one sentence","No definitions section or interpretation clauses","No internal cross-references, schedules, or parts","No conditional logic, exceptions, or operative triggers","Extremely short length (approximately 30 words of substantive law)"],"plain_english_summary":"This regulation designates everyone authorised to register births in the Northern Territory as **Commonwealth Registrars** for the maternity allowance scheme.\n\n**What this means:**\n- Mothers claiming the maternity allowance (a federal payment for new babies) need their child's birth officially registered to get the money\n- This rule ensures that Northern Territory birth registrars have the federal authority to process these registrations\n- Without this, mothers in the Territory might not have been able to access the 'baby bonus' payment because the Territory had different administrative arrangements from the states\n\n**Background:**\n- This replaced an earlier temporary regulation from February 1913\n- It ensures the Northern Territory was properly covered by the 1912 Maternity Allowance Act (Australia's first baby bonus law)"}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/maternity-allowance-regulations","history":"/api/acts/maternity-allowance-regulations/history","analysis":"/api/acts/maternity-allowance-regulations/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/maternity-allowance-regulations/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/maternity-allowance-regulations/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/maternity-allowance-regulations/documents"}}