Air Force Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1980 No. 361

REGULATION UNDER THE AIR FORCE ACT 19231

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

 Dated this fourth day of December 1980.

 ZELMAN COWEN

 Governor-General

 By His Excellency’s Command,

D. J. KILLEN

Minister of State for Defence

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AMENDMENT OF THE AIR FORCE REGULATIONS2

 After regulation 88A of the Air Force Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Air force title after retirement

“88B. (1) Subject to sub-regulation (2), the Governor-General shall, if he places an officer on a Retired List, grant to that officer an air force title of the same designation as the substantive rank held by him immediately before his retirement.

• “(2)

  The Governor-General shall, if he places an officer on a Retired List, grant to that officer an air force title of the same designation as the next higher rank to the substantive rank held by him immediately before his retirement if that officer had held that higher rank on a temporary or acting basis—

  • (a)

    for the final year of his service; or

  • (b)

    for 2 of the last 3 years of his service.

• “(3)

  The Governor-General shall, if he places a Principal Air Chaplain or Chaplain on a Retired List, grant to that Principal Air Chaplain or Chaplain the air force title of Chaplain.”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 12 December 1980.

2. Statutory Rules 1927 No. 161 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1980 No. 2 and see also