Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1979 No. 69

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903, THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910 AND THE AIR FORCE ACT 19231

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, the Naval Defence Act 1910 and the Air Force Act 1923.

Dated this tenth day of May 1979.

ZELMAN CO WEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

J. E. McLEAY

Minister of State for Administrative Services for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence

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AMENDMENTS OF THE DEFENCE FORCE (SALARIES) REGULATIONS2

Interpretation

1. Regulation 4 of the Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting after the definition of “child” in sub-regulation (1) the following definition:

“ ‘compulsory residency’ means training in a hospital undertaken by a medical officer as a condition of entry into the medical profession whether or not that medical officer lives in accommodation provided by the hospital;”; and

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (1) the definition of “medical officer” and substituting the following definition:

“ ‘ medical officer’ means an officer who is, or is eligible to be, registered as a medical practitioner under the laws of a State or Territory, or who will be so eligible upon completion of a period of compulsory residency and is undergoing that period of compulsory residency, and who is serving in—

 

(a) the Medical Branch of the Navy;

(b) the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps; or

(c) the Medical Branch of the Air Force;”.

Annual rate of salary payable to officers

2. Regulation 7 of the Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting in paragraph (a) of “sub-regulation (1) subject to paragraph (aa),” before “if”;

(b) by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (1) “and”;

(c) by inserting after paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (1) the following paragraph:

“(aa) where that officer is performing a period of compulsory residency as part of, or subsequent to, his participation in an under-graduate scheme—the rate specified in Column 4 of Schedule 5 opposite ‘Officer performing year of compulsory residency (from under-graduate scheme)’; and”; and

(d) by inserting after sub-regulation (1) the following sub-regulation:

“(2) In calculating the number of years of service an officer has completed in a rank for the purposes of paragraph (1) (b), service during a period of compulsory residency performed as part of, or subsequent to, participation in an under-graduate scheme shall not be treated as service in that rank.”.

Rations and quarters charge

3. Regulation 19 of the Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (10) the definition of “period of compulsory residency”.

Application

4. The amendment effected by paragraph 2 (d) applies only in relation to a period of compulsory residency commenced after the commencement of these Regulations.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 17 May 1979.

2. Statutory Rules 1973 No. 100 as amended by Statutory Rules 1973 Nos. 132, 201, 203, 249 and 269; 1974 Nos. 71, 77, 90, 92, 93 and 208; 1975 Nos. 34, 149, 163 and 197; 1976 Nos. 3, 13, 48, 81, 120, 130, 136, 197, 239 and 263; 1977 Nos. 69, 80, 95, 96, 101, 128, 139, 159, 215 and 216; 1978 Nos. 2, 3, 4, 50, 68, 90, 91, 116, 138, 152, 239, 252 and 278; and 1979 Nos. 4 and 23.