{"id":"C1940A00001","name":"War Pensions Appropriation Act 1940","slug":"war-pensions-appropriation-act-1940","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"1 of 1940","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":4156,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1940A00001-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-03-30","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"War Pensions Appropriation Act 1940","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\nWAR PENSIONS APPROPRIATION.\n\n \n\nNo. 1 of 1940.\n\nAn Act to grant and apply out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund a sum for War Pensions.\n\n[Assented to 17th May, 1940.]\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 1940.\n\nCommencement.\n\n2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.\n\nAppropriation of £10,000,000 for war pensions.\n\n3. 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 1901–1934 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":1139},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The legislation remains exactly what it purports to be: a straightforward money bill appropriating a specific sum for war pensions. There is no evidence of scope creep or expansion into unrelated policy areas."},"complexity_factors":["Only 3 operative sections","Single, straightforward purpose: appropriation of a specific monetary sum","Minimal cross-referencing (only references the Audit Act 1901-1934 once)","No conditional provisions, exceptions, or defined terms"],"plain_english_summary":"Authorises the government to allocate £10 million from the Consolidated Revenue Fund into a War Pensions Fund to ensure payment of war pensions to veterans and their dependents.  \n\nAs a supply Act, it provides the legal authority to disburse those payments (using a special trust account mechanism under the Audit Act); without it, entitlements could not lawfully be paid."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/war-pensions-appropriation-act-1940","history":"/api/acts/war-pensions-appropriation-act-1940/history","analysis":"/api/acts/war-pensions-appropriation-act-1940/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/war-pensions-appropriation-act-1940/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/war-pensions-appropriation-act-1940/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/war-pensions-appropriation-act-1940/documents"}}