Air Force Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1972 No. 16

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE AIR FORCE ACT 1923-1965.*

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 1923-1965.

Dated this 1st day of February, 1972.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(Sgd.) TOM DRAKE-BROCKMAN

Minister of State for Air.

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Amendments of the Air Force Regulations 

War service leave.

1. Regulation 129A of the Air Force Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (6.) the words “instead of being granted a period of war service leave that might have been granted to him”.

Payment in lieu of war service leave.

2. Regulation 534 of the Air Force Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

“534.—(1.) Where a member to whom war service leave may be granted under regulation 129a of these Regulations applies to an officer authorized to grant that leave for payment in lien of a specified period of war service leave, being a period equal to or less than his war service leave credit, and the exigencies of the service do not permit the member to be absent from duty for the specified period, the officer shall authorize payment to the member of an amount equal to the amount of the pay that would be payable to him in respect of the specified period if the member were to be granted war service leave for the specified period.

“(2.) For the purposes of the last preceding sub-regulation ‘pay’ means—

(a) active pay;

(b) flying pay;

(c) flight pay;

(d) marriage allowance;

(e) provision allowance;

(f) living out allowance;

(g) uniform allowance; and

(h) the allowance payable under regulation 554 of these Regulations.

“(3.) Where—

(a) a member dies; or

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1972.

Statutory Rules 1927, No. 161, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Air Force Regulations see footnote in Statutory Rules 1971, No. 50; and see also Statutory Rules 1971, Nos. 50, 78 and 121.

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(b) the Air Board has directed, after consideration of all the circumstances, that a member should be presumed to have died on a particular date.

and the member was, on the day on which he died or is to be presumed to have died, a member to whom war service leave might have boon granted under regulation 129A of these Regulations, the Air Board may authorize payment to the member’s dependants of an amount equal to the amount that would have been payable to him if, on that day. Payment to him had been authorized under sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation in respect of a period of war service leave equal to his war service leave credit.

“(4.) An amount authorized to be paid to a member or the dependants of a member under this regulation is in addition to and not in substitution for any amount of pay or allowances that is payable under these Regulation in respect of the member’s service”.

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