Discharged Soldiers (Adjustment Grant) Law (1988)

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(No. 38)

DISCHARGED SOLDIERS (ADJUSTMENT GRANT) LAW 5748-1988*

Entitlement.

1. Every soldier discharged from regular service under the Defense Service Law [Consolidated Version] 5746-1986⁽¹⁾, for a period of more than six consecutive months, shall be entitled to a grant under this Law from the State: for this purpose regular service shall be considered as any service under terms of payment which are not those of permanent service, and the completion of service as stated shall be considered as discharge; for the purpose of this Law, a period which under section 18 of the said Law is not deemed as one in which the soldier has carried out his duties of regular service shall not be taken into account in calculation of his service, however, it shall not be seen as interrupting the consecutivity of his service.

Amount

2. The grant shall be paid in three equal sums of 900 New Shekels each -

(1) On 1st October following the discharge;
(2) On 1st October of the next year:
(3) On 1st October of the next year:

provided that a soldier who served less than three years shall be entitled to one third of each of the installments of the grant for each period of a year which he served, and for this purpose a single period of six months or more shall be rounded off upwards.

Linkage

3. 3. Each sum of the grant payable in accordance with section 2 shall be changed in accordance with the change of the Consumer Price Index from the index published by the Central Bureau for Statistics for the month of February 1988 to the index last published prior to the payment of that sum.

Saving of
Laws

4. The grant under this Law shall be in addition to any other grant payable to a discharged soldier under the Law or under military orders.

Implementation
and
Regulations

5. The Minister of Finance is charged with the implementation of this Law and may make regulations in respect of any matter relating to its implementation.

Application

6. This Law shall apply to any person discharged after 13th Nissan 5748 (31st March 1988).

Publication

7. This Law shall be published in Reshumot within thirty days of the day it is passed.

	YITZCHAK SHAMIR Prime Minister	GIDEON PATT Minister of Science and Development Acting Minister of Finance
CHAIM HERZOG President of State

* Passed by the Knesset on 4th Nissan 5748 (22rd March 1988) and published in Sefer Ha-Chukkim No. 1249 of 3rd lyar 5748 (20th April 1988) p. 80; the Bill and an Explanatory Note were published in Hatza'ot Chok 5747, p. 320; section 6 was replaced by section 9 of the Budget Law for fiscal Year 1988, 5748-1988.

⁽¹⁾ Sefer Ha-Chukkim 5746, p. 107; L.S.I. vol. 40, p. 112.

SOURCE: "Laws of the State of Israel: Authorized Translation from the Hebrew, Volume 42". Government Printer, Jerusalem, Israel (1948-1989), p. 78.