Air Force Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1946. No. 40.

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REGULATION 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 Regulation under the Air Force Act 1923-1941.

Dated this twenty-seventh day of February, 1946.

HENRY

Governor-General.

By His Royal Highness’s Command,

ARTHUR S. DRAKEFORD

Minister of State for Air.

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Amendment ofthe Air Force Regulations. 

After regulation 48 of the Air Force Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Staff Chaplains.

“48a.—(1.) The Governor-General may, on the recommendation of the Air Board, appoint five staff chaplains, being—

(a) one staff chaplain for chaplains who are ministers of the Church of England or of a Church in communion with the Church of England;

(b) one staff chaplain for chaplains who are ministers of the Roman Catholic Church;

(c) one staff chaplain for chaplains who are ministers of the Presbyterian Church;

(d) one staff chaplain for chaplains who are ministers of the Methodist Church; and

(e)one staff chaplain for chaplains who are ministers of other Christian Churches.

(2.) The appointment of staff chaplain of a Church specified in paragraph (a),(b),(c) or (d)of the last preceding regulation shall not be conferred except on the head in the Commonwealth of the Church concerned or a minister of religion recommended by that head or by the governing body of that Church in the Commonwealth.

(3.) Staff chaplains shall be appointed to the first class.

(4.) The provisions of these Regulations relating to chaplains shall be applicable to staff chaplains.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 28th February, 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, 46, 58, 82, 80 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. 31, 53, 75, 114, 125, 140, 220, 241 and 279; 1941, Nos. 68, 106, 137, 181 and 228; 1942, Nos. 20, 158, 232, 254, 340, 383, 410, 440, 441, 476 and 543; 1943, Nos. 119 and 198; 1944, Nos. 34, 50, 64, 75, 146 and 153; and 1945, Nos. 49, 79, 95, 105, 196 and 201.

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

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