{"id":"C1933A00061","name":"War Pensions Appropriation Act 1933","slug":"war-pensions-appropriation-act-1933","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"61 of 1933","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":19778,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1933A00061-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"War Pensions Appropriation Act 1933","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\n \n\nWAR PENSIONS APPROPRIATION.\n\nNo. 61 of 1933.\n\nAn Act to grant and apply out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund a sum for War Pensions.\n\n[Assented to 15th December, 1933.]\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 War Pensions Appropriation Act 1933.\n\nAppropriation of £10,000,000 for War 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 War Pensions Fund, the sum of Ten million pounds for war pensions.\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":2014},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Act remains strictly limited to its original purpose of appropriating £10 million for war pensions. As a single-year supply act, it did not undergo scope expansion or mission creep."},"complexity_factors":["Only 2 operative sections (Short title and Appropriation)","No defined terms or interpretation provisions","Single unconditional appropriation with no exceptions or conditional logic","Minimal cross-referencing (only to Audit Act 1901-1926 for Trust Account establishment)"],"plain_english_summary":"This Act authorises a £10 million withdrawal from the Consolidated Revenue Fund into the War Pensions Fund to finance pensions for veterans and their dependents. Passed in 1933, it primarily funded First World War disability and service pensions during the Depression.\n\nAs an appropriation measure, it’s Parliament’s legal authority for the government to make these pension payments; without it the government could not lawfully disburse the funds."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/war-pensions-appropriation-act-1933","history":"/api/acts/war-pensions-appropriation-act-1933/history","analysis":"/api/acts/war-pensions-appropriation-act-1933/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/war-pensions-appropriation-act-1933/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/war-pensions-appropriation-act-1933/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/war-pensions-appropriation-act-1933/documents"}}