Australian Military Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1964. No. 149.

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REGULATION UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1964.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Defence Act 1903-1964.

Dated this fourth day of December, 1964.

DE L’ISLE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

 

A. J. FORBES

Minister of State for the Army.

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Amendment of the Australian Military Regulations. 

Regulation 135 of the Australian Military Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Period of engagement.

“135.—(1.) Subject to the succeeding sub-regulations of this regulation, the prescribed period for the purposes of section 36 of the Act is—

(a) in the case of a person enlisted as a soldier in the Australian Regular Army, not being a person enlisted as a soldier in a native force—six years;

(b) in the case of a person enlisted as a soldier in a native force—four years;

(c) in the case of a person enlisted as a soldier in the Regular Army Supplement—three years;

(d) in the case of a person enlisted as a soldier in the Regular Army Emergency Reserve—four years;

(e) in the case of a person enlisted as a soldier in the Regular Army Reserve—five years or three years; and

(f) in the case of a person enlisted as a soldier in the Active Citizen Military Forces—two years.

“(2.) Where a person selected for training as an apprentice tradesman is enlisted as a soldier in the Australian Regular Army, the prescribed period, for the purposes of section 36 of the Act, is nine years.

“(3.) Where a person selected for training as an apprentice musician is enlisted as a soldier in the Australian Regular Army, the prescribed period, for the purposes of section 36 of the Act, is eight years.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 10th December, 1964.

  Statutory Rules 1927, No. 149, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Australian Military Regulations see footnote   to the Statutory Rules 1964, No. 62, and see also Statutory Rules 1964, Nos. 62, 83 and 93.

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By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

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