{"id":"C1947A00027","name":"Social Services Legislation Declaratory Act 1947","slug":"social-services-legislation-declaratory-act-1947","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"27 of 1947","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":4216,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1947A00027-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-03-30","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Social Services Legislation Declaratory Act 1947","content":"SOCIAL SERVICES LEGISLATION DECLARATORY.\n\nNo. 27 of 1947.\n\nAn Act to declare that certain Enactments relating to Social Services have full force and effect, and for other purposes.\n\n\\[Assented to 11th June, 1947.\\]\n\nBE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—\n\nShort title.\n\n1. This Act may be cited as the Social Services Legislation Declaratory Act 1947.\n\nCommencement.\n\n2. This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the nineteenth day of December, One thousand nine hundred and forty-six.\n\n  \n\nCertain Acts and Regulations declared to be in force.\n\n3.—(1.) The provisions contained, at the commencement of this Act, in the enactments specified in the Schedule to this Act, and in any regulations made under any of those enactments, are declared to have full force and effect.\n\n(2.) All things done before the commencement of this Act (including anything done for the purpose of bringing any provision into operation) in accordance with the provisions of any enactment (including any regulations) to which the last preceding sub-section applies (or under any such enactment in any previous form) shall, for the purposes of the operation of that enactment after the commencement of this Act, be deemed to have been effectively done.\n\nTHE SCHEDULE.\n\n—\n\nSec. 3.\n\nMaternity Allowance Act 1912–1944.\n\nWidows’ Pensions Act 1942–1946.\n\nChild Endowment Act 1941–1945.\n\nUnemployment and Sickness Benefits Act 1944.\n\nHospital Benefits Act 1945.\n\nEducation Act 1945.\n\nInvalid and Old-age Pensions Act 1908–1946, Part IVa.\n\nRe-establishment and Employment Act 1945, Division 5 of Part II and Parts III,\n\nIV and XI.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":2149},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Act remains strictly limited to its original purpose of validating specified social services enactments and deeming past administrative actions lawful."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short - only 3 operative sections plus a Schedule","Simple declaratory language without conditional logic or exceptions","No interpretation section or defined terms","Retrospective operation requires understanding of 'deemed commencement'"],"plain_english_summary":"This Act confirms the validity of Australia’s early social security laws after the 1946 referendum, declaring them legally effective and backdating their operation to 19 December 1946. It preserves the legality of past decisions, payments and administrative actions under those welfare laws. \n\nIt matters because it removed legal doubt and ensured uninterrupted support for families, the unemployed, the elderly, returned servicemen and other beneficiaries."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/social-services-legislation-declaratory-act-1947","history":"/api/acts/social-services-legislation-declaratory-act-1947/history","analysis":"/api/acts/social-services-legislation-declaratory-act-1947/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/social-services-legislation-declaratory-act-1947/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/social-services-legislation-declaratory-act-1947/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/social-services-legislation-declaratory-act-1947/documents"}}