{"id":"C1955A00047","name":"War Pensions Appropriation Act 1955","slug":"war-pensions-appropriation-act-1955","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"47 of 1955","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":4640,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1955A00047-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-03-30","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"War Pensions Appropriation Act 1955","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. 47 of 1955.\n\nAn Act to grant and apply out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund a sum for War Pensions.\n\n[Assented to 3rd November, 1955.]\n\nBE it enacted by the Queen’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 1955.\n\nCommencement.\n\n2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.\n\nAppropriation of £48,000,000 for war pensions.\n\n3. There is payable out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, which is appropriated accordingly, for the purposes of the Trust Account established under the Audit Act 1901-1955 and known as the War Pensions Fund, the sum of Forty-eight million pounds for war pensions.\n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1518},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Act is strictly limited to its original purpose of appropriating a specific sum for war pensions, with no expansion into unrelated policy areas or additional legislative mechanisms."},"complexity_factors":["Only 3 operative sections","No defined terms or interpretation section","Single, unconditional appropriation item","No procedural requirements, exceptions, or compliance mechanisms","Minimal cross-referencing (sole reference to the Audit Act)"],"plain_english_summary":"This Act authorises the Australian Government to withdraw **£48 million** (in 1955 currency) from the national budget — known legally as the Consolidated Revenue Fund — to pay for **war pensions**.\n\nWar pensions are regular financial payments made to:\n* Veterans who suffered injuries or illness due to military service\n* Widows and dependants of service personnel who died as a result of their service\n\nThe money is paid into a special government account called the War Pensions Fund, which was established under the Audit Act. This is a routine budgetary law (called an \"appropriation act\") that simply gives the government the legal authority to spend this money on pension payments."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/war-pensions-appropriation-act-1955","history":"/api/acts/war-pensions-appropriation-act-1955/history","analysis":"/api/acts/war-pensions-appropriation-act-1955/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/war-pensions-appropriation-act-1955/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/war-pensions-appropriation-act-1955/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/war-pensions-appropriation-act-1955/documents"}}