Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SERVICES ACT (No. 3) 1975 No. 110, 1975 - SECT 11

11. Section 105A of the Principal Act is amended-

   (a)  by adding at the end of sub-section (1) the following definitions:-

'' 'parent' includes an adoptive parent;

'person' includes an institution.''; and

   (b)  by omitting sub-section (2) and substituting the following
        sub-section:-

''(2) For the purposes of a claim for a double orphan's pension, where one of
the parents of a child (other than an adopted child), or one of two adoptive
parents of an adopted child, is dead and-

   (a)  the whereabouts of the other parent are not known to the claimant;

   (b)  the other parent has been convicted of an offence and sentenced to
        imprisonment for life or for a term of years, being a term not less
        than 10 years, and is serving that sentence at the time of the claim;
        or

   (c)  the other parent is, at the time of the claim, a mental hospital
        patient and the Director-General is satisfied that he will require
        care or treatment, whether in that hospital or in a similar hospital,
        for an indefinite period,

that other parent shall be deemed to be dead.''.