Air Force Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1949. No..

REGULATIONS UNDER THE AIR FORCE ACT 1923-1941.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Air Force Act 1923-1941.

Dated this day of , 1949.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Air.

 

Amendments of the Air Force Regulations. 

Members of Air Board.

1.—(1.) Regulation 25 of the Air Force Regulations is amended—

(a)by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the words “ The Air Member for Engineering and Maintenance ” and inserting in their stead the words “ The Air Member for Technical Services ”;

(b)by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) the words “ The Chief of the Air Staff, the Air Member for Personnel and the Air Member for Engineering and Maintenance ” and inserting in their stead the words “ The Chief of the Air Staff and the Air Member for Personnel ”; and

(c) by inserting in sub-regulation (2.) after the word “ experience ” the words “ and the Air Member for Technical Services shall, unless the Governor-General otherwise approves, be an officer of the Technical Branch with flying qualifications ”.

(2.) The amendment effected by paragraph (b)of sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation shall be deemed to have come into operation on the 23rd day of September, 1948.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1949.

  Statutory Rules 1927, No. 161, as amended by Statutory Rules 1928, Nos. 52 and 109; 1929, Nos. 75 and 114; 1930, Nos. 77, 94 and 135; 1931, Nos. 3, 78 and 115; 1932, Nos. 9, 63 and 133; 1933, Nos. 16, 46, 58, 82, 89 and 117; 1934, Nos. 25, 51, 74, 81, 122 and 125; 1935, Nos. 32 and 98; 1936, No. 17; 1937, No. 21; 1938, Nos. 12, 13, 22, 48, 77, 97 and 120; 1939, Nos. 21, 64 and 142; 1940, Nos. 81, 53, 75, 114, 125, 140, 220, 241 and 279; 1941, Nos. 68, 106, 137, 181 and 228; 1942, Nos. 29, 158, 232, 254, 346, 383, 416, 440, 441, 476 and 543, 1943, Nos. 119 and 198; 1944, Nos. 34, 50, 64, 75, 146 and 153, 1945, Nos. 49, 79, 95, 105, 196 and 201; 1946, Nos. 40, 111, 145 and 162; 1947, No. 22; and 1948, Nos. 34, 51, 67, 86 and 152.—Eighty-ninth amendment.

6649.—Price 3d. 14/18.8.1949.

 

Distribution of duties.

2. Regulation 30 of the Air Force Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (2.) the words “ The Air Member for Engineering and Maintenance ” and inserting in their stead the words “ The Air Member for Technical Services ”.

3. After regulation 115 of the Air Force Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Review of discharge.

“ 115a. The Air Member for Personnel may review all matters concerning any discharge authorized and confirmed in pursuance of regulation 109 of these Regulations and, if it appears to the Air Member for Personnel that the reason for which the discharge has been effected is inappropriate to the circumstances of the case, the Air Member for Personnel may direct that the record of the discharge be amended by substituting for the reason recorded such other reason, specified in regulation 115 of these Regulations, as the Air Member for Personnel considers appropriate.”.

4. Regulation 152a of the Air Force Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead—

Crediting of Citizen Air Force service for certain purposes.

“ 152a.—(1.) Where, in time of war, any person is enlisted in or appointed to the Citizen Air Force and, immediately prior to that enlistment or appointment, he was a member of the Permanent Air Force, he shall, whilst on continuous war service as a member of the Citizen Air Force pursuant to his being called out under a Proclamation issued pursuant to section 46 of the Defence Act, be deemed to continue to be a member of the Permanent Air Force for the purpose of the application of regulations 149 and 150 of these Regulations and, for the purpose of those regulations, his war service as a member of the Citizen Air Force shall be deemed to be service in the Permanent Air Force and his retirement from the Citizen Air Force, unless immediately thereafter he again becomes a member of the Permanent Air Force, shall be deemed for the purposes of those regulations to be retirement from the Permanent Air Force.

(2.) The provisions of sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation shall not apply to a member of the Citizen Air Force who becomes a member of the Citizen Air Force by virtue of his being transferred thereto from the Permanent Air Force pursuant to regulation 57 of these Regulations.”.

Rates of pay.

5.—(1.) Regulation 646of the Air Force Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting after sub-regulation (1.) the following sub-regulation:—

“ (1a.) The rate of pay of an officer of the Citizen Air Force with the rank of Air Commodore or a higher rank shall be such rate as is determined by the Minister with the concurrence of the Treasurer.”;

(b)by omitting from sub-regulation (3.) the words “ Allowances prescribed ” and inserting in their stead the words “ Except as prescribed in this Division of this Part of these Regulations, allowances proscribed by these Regulations ”; and

(c) by omitting from sub-regulation (4.) the words “ and deferred pay ”.

(2.) This regulation shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of July, 1947.

(3.) If, in respect of the period from and including the first day of July, 1947, to the date of notification in the Gazette of these Regulations, the total amount of daily pay (including deferred pay) and allowances prescribed by the Air Force Regulations as payable to a member was higher than the total amount of daily pay and allowances payable to him under those Regulations, as amended by this regulation, the member shall not be entitled to recover the amount of the difference.

Pay of recruits.

6. Regulation 647 of the Air Force Regulations is repealed.

7. After regulation 652 of the Air Force Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Marriage and separation allowances.

“ 653.—(1.) A member of the Citizen Air Force undergoing continuous full-time training may be paid marriage allowance at the same rate and subject to the same conditions as are prescribed by these Regulations for a member of the Permanent Air Force:

Provided that the member shall not be required to authorize payment of a qualifying allotment as prescribed by regulation 556 of those Regulations as a condition precedent to the payment of marriage allowance.

(2.) A member of the Citizen Air Force undergoing continuous full-time training may be paid separation allowance at the same rate and subject to the same conditions as are prescribed by these Regulations for a member of the Permanent Air Force:

Provided that separation allowance shall not be paid under this regulation in respect of the first twenty-eight days of any period of continuous full-time training.”.

8. Regulation 656 of the Air Force Regulations is repealed and the following regulation is inserted in its stead:—

Meals whilst attending camps, voluntary courses of instruction, and whole day parades.

“ 656.—(1.) Rations in kind will be issued free to a member of the Citizen Air Force undergoing continuous full-time training or attending a voluntary course of instruction or whole day parade.

(2.) The daily scale of rations shall be as approved by the Air Board.

(3.) In the case of a whole day parade, one-third of the prescribed daily ration shall be allowed for each member.”.

Medical officers—Provision of locum tenens.

9. Regulation 657 of the Air Force Regulations is amended by omitting the symbol and figure “ £1 ” and inserting in their stead the symbols and figures “ £2 2s.”.

Training abroad.

10. Regulation 661 of the Air Force Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting paragraph (b); and

(b) by omitting from the proviso the words “ field allowance and ”.

11. After regulation 663 of the Air Force Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Fares to place of parade or assembly.

“ 663a. The fares for journeys between a member’s residence and the place of parade, or between a member’s residence and the place of assembly, where the member is proceeding to or returning from continuous full-time training, may be paid from public funds if the distance from his residence to the place of parade or assembly is not less than one mile.”.

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.