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Aged, Destitute and Infirm Persons Relief Amendment Act 1987

COOK ISLANDS

AGED, DESTITUTE AND INFIRM PERSON'S RELIEF AMENDMENT ACT 1987

ANALYSIS

Title

1. Short Title and commencement
2. Rate of pension
3. Provision for relief
4. Repeal

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1987, No. 18

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

(4 December 1987

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

1. Short Title and commencement - (1) This Act may be cited as the Aged, Destitute and Infirm Persons Relief Amendment Act 1987 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) This Act shall come into force on the 1st day of December 1987.

2. Rate of pension - Section 5 of the principal Act (as substituted by section 2 of the Aged, Destitute and Infirm Persons Relief Amendment Act 1986), is hereby repealed and the following section substituted, -

"5. Rate of pension - Pensions shall be paid rate of $66.00 every month."

3. Provision for relief – Section 15 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection (5) (as amended by section 3 of the Aged, Destitute and Infirm Persons Relief Amendment Act 1986), the words “$30.00 every month”, and substituting the words “$33.00 every month.”

4. Repeal - The Aged, Destitute and Infirm Persons Amendment Act 1986 is hereby repealed.

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This Act is administered by the Department of Internal Affairs