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Aged, Destitute and Infirm Persons Relief Amendment Act 1971-72

COOK ISLANDS

AGED, DESTITUTE AND INFIRM PERSONS RELIEF AMENDMENT ACT 1971-72

ANALYSIS

Title
1. Short Title
2. Administration
3. Rate of pension
4. Section repealed
5. Interpretation
6. Destitute and Infirm Persons Relief Committee

1971-72, No.1

An Act to amend the Aged, Destitute and Infirm Persons Relief Act 1966

(28 February 1972

BE IT ENACTED by the Legislative Assembly of the Cook Islands in Session assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:

1. Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Aged, Destitute and Infirm Persons Relief Amendment Act 1971-72 and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Aged, Destitute and Infirm Persons Relief Act 1966 (hereinafter referred to as "the principal Act").

2. Administration

Section 2 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the words "of Social Development", and substituting the words "responsible for Internal Affairs'."

3. Rate of pension

Section 5 of the principal Act is hereby repealed and the following section substituted: -

"5. Pensions shall be paid as from the first day of November 1971 at the rate of seventy-seven dollars and fifty cents per year."

4. Section repealed

Section 6 of the principal Act is hereby repealed.

5. Interpretation

Section 9 of the principal Act is hereby amended by -

(a) Omitting the term "Chief Medical Officer" and its definition, and inserting the following new term and definition:-

• "Director of Health" means the permanent head of the Department of Health and includes such other person as the Director of Health may from time to time delegate the duties imposed upon him by this Act."

(b) Omitting from the definition of the term "Department" the words "Social Development Department", and substituting the words "Department of Internal Affairs."

6. Destitute and Infirm Persons Relief Committee

Section 10 of the principal Act is hereby amended by -

(a) Omitting from subsection (2) the word "Director", and substituting the words "permanent head":
(b) Omitting from subsection (2) the words "Chief Medical Officer", and substituting the words "Director of Health":
(c) Repealing subsection (3) and substituting the following subsection:-

• "(3) The permanent head of the Department shall be Chairman of the Committee and the Director of Health shall be Deputy Chairman."

This Act is administered in the Department of Internal Affairs.

RAROTONGA, COOK ISLANDS - Printed under the authority of the Cook Islands Government, by T. KAPI, Government Printer - 1972