Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (Annual Rates of Pay) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1978 No. 80

REGULATION 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 Regulation under the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973.

Dated this first day of June 1978.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

D. J. KILLEN

Minister of State for Defence

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AMENDMENT OF THE DEFENCE FORCE RETIREMENT AND DEATH BENEFITS (ANNUAL RATES OF PAY) REGULATIONS 

Annual rate of pay on or after 8th or 9th February, 1973

Regulation 4 of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (Annual Rates of Pay) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (11) and substituting the following sub-regulations:

“ (11) Notwithstanding sub-regulation (5), the annual pay applicable on a day during the period that commenced on 15 May 1975 and ended on 8 September 1975 to a member of the Defence Force to whom one of the first 2 descriptions in column 1, column 2 or column 3 of Schedule 2 is applicable is—

(a) in the case of a member of the Defence Force to whom the first description in column 1, 2 or 3 of Schedule 2 is applicable—$33,670; and

(b) in the case of a member of the Defence Force to whom the second description in column 1, 2 or 3 of Schedule 2 is applicable—$31,080.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 8 June 1978.

  Statutory Rules 1973, No. 188 asamended by Statutory Rules 1973, No. 261; 1974, Nos. 14, 161 and 234; 1975, Nos. 141 and 195; 1976, Nos. 42, 99, 160, 170, 196, 207 and 265: 1977, Nos. 82, 98, 158 and 161; and 1978, Nos. 6 and 52.

 

“ (12) Notwithstanding sub-regulation (5), the annual pay applicable on 1 September 1977 to—

(a) a member of the Navy who holds the rank of Admiral and is Chief of Defence Force Staff; or

(b) a member of the Army who holds the rank of General and is Chief of Defence Force Staff,

is $43,860.

“ (13) Notwithstanding sub-regulation (5), the annual pay applicable on 1 September 1977 to—

(a) a member of the Navy who holds the rank of Vice-Admiral and is Chief of Naval Staff; or

(b) a member of the Army who holds the rank of Lieutenant-General and is Chief of the General Staff,

is $38,250.”.