Assignment of Functions (Minister of Veterans of the Liberation Struggle Affairs) (Amendment) Notice, 2024 (No. 1)

This notice amends the Schedule to the Assignment of Functions notice for the Minister of Veterans of the Liberation Struggle Affairs (S.I. 210 of 2023), which lists the Acts that Minister administers.

Two Acts are deleted: the War Veterans Act [Chapter 11:15] and the War Victims Compensation Act [Chapter 11:16]. One is added: the National Heroes Act [Chapter 10:16], to be co-administered with the Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage.

For war veterans and war victims this is a change in who signs, not in the entitlements themselves — the benefits under those two Acts are unaffected by this notice. But it does mean applications, appeals and regulations under the War Veterans Act and the War Victims Compensation Act are now the responsibility of a different Minister, and this notice does not name which one. The corresponding assignment notice for the receiving Minister has to be read to find out.

No commencement date is stated; the notice was gazetted on 10 May 2024. The extract carries a stray page header reading "S.I. 82 of 2024", a printing artefact. The instrument is made under the Constitution rather than a specific Act.