{"id":"C1941A00014","name":"War Pensions Appropriation Act 1941","slug":"war-pensions-appropriation-act-1941","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"14 of 1941","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":4038,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1941A00014-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-03-30","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"War Pensions Appropriation Act 1941","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. 14 of 1941.\n\nAn Act to grant and apply out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund a sum for War Pensions.\n\n[Assented to 7th April, 1941.]\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 1941.\n\n\n\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":1443},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The legislation remains tightly focused on its original purpose of appropriating £10 million for war pensions without expanding into other policy areas, administrative procedures, or eligibility criteria."},"complexity_factors":["Only 3 operative sections with no subsections","No definitions or interpretation clauses","Single unconditional appropriation of a fixed sum","Only one cross-reference (to the Audit Act for the trust account mechanism)","No exceptions, conditions, or regulatory machinery"],"plain_english_summary":"This Act authorises the withdrawal of £10 million from the Consolidated Revenue Fund into the War Pensions Fund so veterans, widows, orphans and dependents continue to receive disability and service pensions. It replenishes the dedicated trust account used by government departments to ensure uninterrupted pension payments during wartime."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/war-pensions-appropriation-act-1941","history":"/api/acts/war-pensions-appropriation-act-1941/history","analysis":"/api/acts/war-pensions-appropriation-act-1941/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/war-pensions-appropriation-act-1941/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/war-pensions-appropriation-act-1941/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/war-pensions-appropriation-act-1941/documents"}}