Australian Military Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1979 No. 30

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 19031

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 this twenty-first day of February 1979.

 ZELMAN COWEN

 Governor-General

 By His Excellency’s Command,

J. E. McLEAY

Minister of State for Administrative Services for an on

behalf of the Minister of State for Defence

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AMENDMENTS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MILITARY

REGULATIONS2

1Appointment

 Regulation 97 of the Australian Military Regulations is amended–

• (a)

  by omitting from sub-regulation (1) “Australia” and substituting “the Commonwealth,”; and

• (b)

  by inserting in sub-regulation (1) “and an officer of the Royal Australian Army Dental Corps may be appointed Honorary Dental Surgeon to the Governor-General,” after “Governor-General,”.

2Authority to discharge soldiers

 Regulation 175 of the Australian Military Regulations is amended–

• (a)

  by inserting after paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (2) the following paragraph:

“(aa)

the Deputy Chief of Personnel;”; and

• (b)

  by omitting paragraph (e) of sub-regulation (2).

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 27 February 1979.

2. Statutory Rules 1927 No. 149 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1979 No. 20 and see also