Air Force Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1979 No. 63

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 Regulations under the Air Force Act  1923.

 Dated this eleventh day of April 1979.

 ZELMAN COWEN

 Governor-General

 By His Excellency’s Command,

J. E. McLEAY

Minister of State for Administrative Services for and

on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence

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AMENDMENT OF THE AIR FORCE REGULATIONS2

Retiring ages for officers

 Regulation 88 of the Air Force Regulations is amended by inserting after sub-regulation (1AA) the following sub-regulations:

• “(1AB)

  Where an officer, being an officer who has attained the age that would, but for sub‑regulation (1AA), have been the age for the compulsory retirement of the officer, ceases to be a prescribed officer, the officer shall, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in sub-regulations (1) and (1AA), be deemed to have attained the age for the compulsory retirement of the officer upon so ceasing to be a prescribed officer.

• “(1AC)

  For the purposes of sub-regulation (1AB), a prescribed officer is an officer who—

  • (a)

    holds a temporary rank; and

  • (b)

    has not attained the age for compulsory retirement applicable to that temporary rank.”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 18 April 1979.

2. Statutory Rules 1927 No. 161 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1979 No. 19 and see also