Commonwealth act

Old-age Pensions Appropriation Act 1908

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This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.

Jurisdiction

Commonwealth

Act Number

18 of 1908

Collection

act

Plain English Summary

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This Act authorises the government to withdraw £750,000 from the Consolidated Revenue Fund into an Invalid and Old-age Pensions Fund to pay pensions to eligible elderly people and people with disabilities.

It enabled the Commonwealth to actually disburse the new national age and invalid pensions, making parliamentary approval for the first major federal social‑security outlay.

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Old-age Pensions Appropriation Act 1908

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OLD-AGE PENSIONS APPROPRIATION.

No. 18 of 1908.

An Act to grant and apply out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund the sum of Seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds for Invalid and Old-age Pensions.

[Assented to 10th June, 1908.]

Preamble.

BE 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:—

Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the Old-age Pensions Appropriation Act 1908.

Appropriation of £750,000 for Invalid and Old-age Pensions.

2. 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 Acts 1901–1906, and known as the Invalid and Old-age Pensions Fund, the sum of Seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds for Invalid and Old-age Pensions.

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