Air Force Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1946. No. 145.

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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 ninth day of October, 1946.

HENRY

Governor-General.

By His Royal Highness’s Command,

ARTHUR S. DRAKEFORD

Minister of State for Air.

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Amendments of the Air Force Regulations. 

Change of Commission.

1. Regulation 47 of the Air Force Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the words “upon such terms as to rank and seniority and subject to such conditions as the Governor-General, upon the recommendation of the Air Board, directs or determines”.

Ranks.

2. Regulation 50 of the Air Force Regulations, is amended by inserting in sub-regulation (3.), after the words “subject to regulations”, the figures “47,”.

Deferred pay—conditions of issue.

3. Regulation 549 of the Air Force Regulations is amended by inserting, after sub-regulation (3.), the following sub-regulation:—

“(3a.) Notwithstanding anything contained in the last preceding sub-regulation, where a commissioned warrant officer of the Permanent Air Force became liable on and after the second day of November, 1942, to contribute for units of pension under Part IVa. of the Superannuation Act 1922-1945 and the rate of the contributions in respect of those units is such that, in the opinion of the Minister, the officer suffers hardship by reason of that liability, the Minister may

* Notified In the Commonwealth Gazette on 10th October, 1946.

  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, 40, 58, 82, 89 and 117; 1934, Nos. 20, 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. 31, 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 : and 1946, Nos. 40 and 111.—Eighty-first amendment.

5286.—Price 3d.

approve of payment, prior to the termination of the officer’s appointment in the Air Force, to the officer, or, with the consent of the officer, to the Superannuation Board on his behalf, of the whole of the deferred pay which accrued under these Regulations to the credit of the officer’s account in respect of his service as a commissioned warrant officer of the Permanent Air Force prior to the second day of November, 1942, orof such portion of that deferred pay as the Minister considers necessary to alleviate the hardship in the circumstances of any particular case.”.

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