1States Grants (Deserted Wives) Regulations

STATUTORY RULES

1968 No.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE STATES GRANTS (DESERTED WIVES) ACT 1968.*

I THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the States Grants (Deserted Wives) Act 1968.

Dated this twenty-first day of June 1968.

CASEY

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Signature of Attorney-General for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Social Services

Attorney-General for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Social Services.

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States Grants (Deserted Wives) Regulations

Citation.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the States Grants (Deserted Wives) Regulations.

Persons in relation to whom Act applies.

2. For the purposes of paragraph (c) of the definition of “person in relation to whom this Act applies” in section 3 of the States Grants (Deserted Wives) Act 1968, each of the following classes of women is a prescribed class of women:—

(a) unmarried women each of whom is living with the child, or with one or more of the children, of whom she has the custody, care and control and is the mother, but is not living with a man as his wife on a bona fide domestic basis:

(b) married women (other than women who fall within paragraph (a) or (b) of that definition) each of whom is living with the child, or with one or more of the children, of whom she has the custody, care and control and is the mother, but is not living with her husband or with any other man as his wife on a bona fide domestic basis.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1968.

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By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra

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