Australian Military Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1982 No. 1901

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Australian Military Regulations2(Amendment)

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 Defence Act 1903.

 Dated 3 August 1982.

 N. M. STEPHEN

 Governor-General

 By His Excellency’s Command,

IAN SINCLAIR

Minister of State for Defence

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Appointment of Chaplains

 1. Regulation 75 of the Australian Military Regulations is amended—

• (a)

  by omitting from sub-regulation (1) all the words after “appointment” and substituting “by the Principal Chaplain appointed under paragraph 595 (1) (a), (b) or (c), as the case may be, for Chaplains who are ministers of his church or faith”; and

• (b)

  by omitting from sub-regulation (3) all the words after “person” and substituting “to be a Principal Chaplain”.

Ages for retirement of officers

2. Regulation 124 of the Australian Military Regulations is amended—

• (a)

  by omitting from sub-regulation (4) “deputy chaplain-general or chaplain” and substituting “Principal Chaplain or Chaplain”;

• (b)

  by omitting from sub-regulation (4) “the provisions of A.M.R. 595A or A.M.R. 594” and substituting “regulation 594 or 595”; and

• (c)

  by omitting sub-regulation (5).

Military title after retirement

 3. Regulation 125 of the Australian Military Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (3) “Chaplain-General” (wherever occurring) and substituting “Principal Chaplain”.

Chaplains—status and command

 4. Regulation 592 of the Australian Military Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (2).

Classification and precedence of Chaplains

 5. Regulation 594 of the Australian Military Regulations is amended—

• (a)

  by omitting from sub-regulation (1) “chaplains-general” and substituting 'Principal Chaplains”; and

• (b)

  by omitting sub-regulation (2) and substituting the following sub-regulation:

• “(2)

  A Chaplain whose classification is specified in Column 2 of the following table in an item in that table shall take precedence in accordance with the rank specified in Column 3 of the table in that item:

Column 1 Item	Column 2 Classification	Column 3 Rank
1	1st class	Colonel
2	2nd class	Lieutenant-Colonel
3	3rd class	Major
4	4th class	Captain”

 6. Regulation 595 of the Australian Military Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:

Principal Chaplains

“595.

(1) The Governor-General may appoint 3 Principal Chaplains, namely—

• (a)

  one for Chaplains who are ministers of the Anglican Church of Australia or a church in communion with that church;

• (b)

  one for Chaplains who are ministers of the Roman Catholic Church; and

• (c)

  one for Chaplains who are ministers of a church or faith other than Chaplains referred to in paragraph (a) or (b).

“(2)

A Principal Chaplain shall take precedence as a Brigadier.”.

Deputy chaplains-general

 7. Regulation 595A of the Australian Military Regulations is repealed.

Senior Jewish Chaplain

 8. Regulation 595B of the Australian Military Regulations is repealed.

Senior chaplains and deputy senior chaplains

 9. Regulation 596 of the Australian Military Regulations is repealed.

Advancement of classification

 10. Regulation 597 of the Australian Military Regulations is amended by omitting “chaplain-general, or, in the case of a Jewish chaplain, on the recommendation of the Senior Jewish Chaplain” and substituting “Principal Chaplain”.

Reduction of classification

 11. Regulation 598 of the Australian Military Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (2) all the words after “recommendation” (first occurring) and substituting “of his Principal Chaplain”.

Termination of appointment

 12. Regulation 599 of the Australian Military Regulations is repealed.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 11 August 1982.

2. Statutory Rules 1927 No. 149 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1982 No. 36 and see also