Statutory Rules
1976 No. 170
REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE FORCE RETIREMENT AND
DEATH BENEFITS ACT 1973.*
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 Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973.
Dated this nineteeth day of
August, 1976.
JOHN R. KERR
Governor-General.
By His
Excellency’s Command,
D. J.
KILLEN
Minister
of State for Defence.
Amendments
of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (Annual Rates of Pay)
Regulations
Annual rate of pay in respect of period 1
October 1972 to 8 or 9 February 1973.
1. Regulation 3 of the Defence Force Retirement and
Death Benefits (Annual Rates of Pay) Regulations is amended by omitting from
sub-regulation (4) the figures “ -1971 ”.
Schedule 2.
2. Schedule 2 to the Defence Force Retirement and Death
Benefits (Annual Rates of Pay) Regulations is amended by omitting the words and
figures—
“ Rear
Admiral .............. | Major-General
.................... | Air
Vice-Marshal ........ | 29,310
|
Commodore
.................. | Brigadier
............................ | Air
Commodore .......... | 24,906 ”, |
and substituting the
words and figures— |
“ Rear
Admiral .............. | Major-General
.................... | Air
Vice-Marshal ........ | 29,508
|
Commodore
.................. | Brigadier
............................ | Air
Commodore .......... | 25,104 ”. |
* Notified in the Australian
Government Gazette on 25 August 1976.
Statutory Rules 1973, No. 188, as
amended by Statutory Rules 1973, No. 261; 1974, Nos. 14, 161 and 234; 1975, Nos. 141 and 195; and 1976, Nos. 42, 99 and
160.
Repeal of Schedules 3 and 4.
3. Schedules 3 and 4 to the Defence Force Retirement
and Death Benefits (Annual Rates of Pay) Regulations are repealed and the
following Schedules substituted:—
SCHEDULE 3 Sub-regulation 4 (7)
Chaplains
Column
1 | Column
2 | Column
3 | Column
4 |
Navy | Army | Air
Force | Annual
pay |
$ |
Chaplain-General
............. | Principal
Air Chaplain ...... | 19,678 |
Chaplain with not less than 20 years’ service as a
Chaplain
| Chaplain, Third Class, with not less than 16 years’
service in that classification
| Chaplain with not less than 20 years’ service as a
Chaplain
| 19,172 |
Chaplain with less than 20 but not less than 12
years’ service as a Chaplain
| Chaplain, Third Class, with less than 16 but not
less than 8 years’ service in that classification
| Chaplain with less than 20 but not less than 12
years’ service as a Chaplain
| 18,163 |
Chaplain with less than 12 but not less than 4
years’ service as a Chaplain
| Chaplain, Third Class, with less than 8 years’
service in that classification
| Chaplain with less than 12 but not less than 4
years’ service as a Chaplain
| 16,145 |
Chaplain with less than 4 years’ service as a
Chaplain
| Chaplain, Fourth Class ...... | Chaplain with less than 4 years’ service as a
Chaplain
| 14,008 |
SCHEDULE 4 Sub-regulation
4 (8)
Members
undergoing Training
Item
no. | Training
capacities | Annual
pay |
$ |
1 | Normal entry recruits during basic
recruit training .................................... | 6,442 |
2 | Trainees, including sailors in the Navy
who hold the rank of Seaman, who have attained the age of 17 years and who
have not completed their category training—
|
1st year .........................................................................................
| 6,715 |
2nd and subsequent years ...............................................................
| 7,714 |
3 | Junior
trainees, being junior musicians, apprentice musicians and other apprentices—
|
1st year .........................................................................................
| 4,227 |
2nd year .......................................................................................
| 4,227 |
3rd year ........................................................................................
| 5,765 |
4th year ........................................................................................
| 6,764 |
4 | Sailors in the Navy who hold the rank
of Seaman and who have not attained the age of 17 years and junior recruits
in the Navy
| 3,208 |
5 | Royal
Military College cadets, air cadets at the Air Force Academy and subordinate
officers (that is to say, officers of the Navy who hold the rank of Acting
Sub-Lieutenant or a lower rank) who entered the Royal Australian Naval
College by way of senior entry—
|
1st year .........................................................................................
| 5,229 |
2nd year .......................................................................................
| 5,229 |
3rd year ........................................................................................
| 5,826 |
4th year ........................................................................................
| 6,422 |
5th year ........................................................................................
| 7,019 |
6th year ........................................................................................
| 7,617 |
Schedule 4—continued
Item
no. | Training
capacities | Annual
pay |
6 | Subordinate
officers (that is to say, officers of the Navy who hold the rank of Acting
Sub-Lieutenant or a lower rank) who entered the Royal Australian Naval
College by way of junior entry—
| $ |
1st year ..........................................................................................
| 3,565 |
2nd year ........................................................................................
| 4,098 |
3rd year .........................................................................................
| 5,229 |
4th year .........................................................................................
| 5,229 |
5th year .........................................................................................
| 5,826 |
6th year .........................................................................................
| 6,422 |
7 | Members,
not being members referred to in items 5 and 6, undertaking degree courses—
|
with 3 years to graduation ...............................................................
| 5,229 |
with 2 years to graduation ...............................................................
| 5,826 |
in final year ...................................................................................
| 6,422 |
3 | Members
of the Navy and air cadets not at the Air Force Academy, undertaking diploma
courses—
|
1st year ..........................................................................................
| 4,098 |
2nd year (or matriculation or
equivalent entry) .................................
| 5,229 |
3rd year .........................................................................................
| 5,229 |
4th year .........................................................................................
| 5,826 |
9 | Male
officer trainees, being officer cadets (Army) and aircrew cadets (Air Force)—
|
If not completed degree course ........................................................
| 5,826 |
If completed degree course .............................................................
| 6,422 |
10 | Female officer trainees— |
If not completed degree course ........................................................
| 4,661 |
If completed degree course .............................................................
| 5,138 |
11 | Members
of the Navy, other than members referred to in another item of this Schedule,
who hold the rank of Midshipman of the Supplementary List—
|
1st year ..........................................................................................
| 5,826 |
2nd year ........................................................................................
| 6,422 |
Amendments of Statutory Rules 1976, No.
42.
4. Regulation 2 of Statutory Rules 1976, No. 42 is
amended by omitting from the table the items relating to sub-regulations 4 (4)
and 4 (9).
Application.
5. The Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits
(Annual Rates of Pay) Regulations as amended by regulations 2 and 3 apply in
relation to service by—
(a) members of the Navy
and of the Army—on or after 28 May 1976; and
(b) members of the Air
Force—on or after 27 May 1976.