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

 

Statutory Rules

1977 No. 161

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 fourteenth day of September 1977.

JOHN R. KERR

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 

Schedules 2, 3 and 4

1. Schedules 2, 3 and 4 to the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (Annual Rates of Pay) Regulations are repealed and the following Schedules substituted:

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 15 September 1977.

  Statutory Rules 1973, No. 188 as amended 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; and 1977, Nos. 82, 98 and 158.

SCHEDULE 2 Sub-regulation 4 (5)

Officers who hold specified Ranks

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Navy	Army	Air Force	Annual pay
$
Admiral (Chief of Defence Force Staff)	General (Chief of Defence Force Staff)	Air Chief Marshal (Chief of Defence Force Staff)	43,860
Vice Admiral (Chief of Naval Staff)	Lieutenant-General (Chief of the General Staff)	Air Marshal (Chief of the Air Staff)	38,250
Rear-Admiral........................	Major-General...................	Air Vice-Marshal................	31,727
Commodore..........................	Brigadier............................	Air Commodore..................	27,068

 

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 ..	21,270
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	20,735
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	19,667
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	17,532
Chaplain with less than 4 years’ service as a Chaplain	Chaplain, Fourth Class ..	Chaplain with less than 4 years’ service as a Chaplain	15,272

 

SCHEDULE 4 Sub-regulation 4 (8)

Members undergoing Training

Item	Training capacities	Annual pay
$
1	Normal entry recruits during basic training..................................................	7,231
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..................................................................................................	7,408
2nd and subsequent years.....................................................................	8,528
3	Junior trainees, being junior musicians, apprentice musicians and other apprentices—
1st year..................................................................................................	4,736
2nd year.................................................................................................	4,736
3rd year..................................................................................................	6,458
4th year..................................................................................................	7,578
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....................	3,592

SCHEDULE 4—continued

Item	Training capacities	Annual pay
$
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...................................................................................................	5,858
2nd year...................................................................................................	5,858
3rd year...................................................................................................	6,527
4th year....................................................................................................	7,195
5th year....................................................................................................	7,863
6th year....................................................................................................	8,533
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...................................................................................................	3,993
2nd year..................................................................................................	4,590
3rd year...................................................................................................	5,858
4th year...................................................................................................	5,858
5th year...................................................................................................	6,527
6th year...................................................................................................	7,195
7	Members, not being members to whom item 5 or 6 applies, undertaking degree courses—
with 3 years to graduation......................................................................	5,858
with 2 years to graduation ......................................................................	6,527
in final year ............................................................................................	7,195
8	Members of the Navy, and air cadets Dot at the Air Force Academy, undertaking diploma courses—
1st year...................................................................................................	4,590
2nd year (or matriculation or equivalent entry) ....................................	5,858
3rd year...................................................................................................	5,858
4th year...................................................................................................	6,527
9	Male officer trainees, being officer cadets (Army) and aircrew cadets (Air Force)—
If not completed degree course...............................................................	6,527
If completed degree course.....................................................................	7,195
10	Female officer trainees—
If not completed degree course.................................................................	5,222
If completed degree course.......................................................................	5,756
11	Members of the Navy, other than members to whom another item of this Schedule applies, who hold the rank of Midshipman of the Supplementary List—
1st year...................................................................................................	6,527
2nd year..................................................................................................	7,195

Application

2. The Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (Annual Application Rates of Pay) Regulations as amended by regulation 1 apply in relation to service by—

(a) members of the Navy and of the Army—on or after 2 September 1977; and

(b) members of the Air Force—on or after 1 September 1977.