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

Statutory Rules 1984 No. 621

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Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR AVIATION acting for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence, hereby make the following Interim Determination under section 12 of the Defence Amendment Act 1979.

Dated 10 April 1984.

K. C. BEAZLEY

Minister of State for Aviation for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence

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General rates of salary payable to members

1. Regulation 8 of the Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting in sub-regulation (1) “and regulations 8b and 8c” after “(1a) and (2)”;

(b) by inserting in sub-regulation (1d) “or regulation 8c” after “sub-regulation 8 (1)” first occurring;

(c) by inserting in sub-regulation (1d) “or regulation 8c, as the case may be,” after “sub-regulation 8 (1)” second occurring;

(d) by inserting in sub-regulation (2) “or regulation 8b” after “or (5)”; and

(e) by inserting in sub-regulation (5) “, other than a member to whom regulation 8b applies,” after “Schedule 7”.

2. The Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations are amended by inserting after regulation 8 the following regulations:

Salary payable to members on redeployment of Fleet Air Arm personnel

8a. This regulation applies to a member who—

(a) is included in the class of members the description of which is specified in the heading to Schedule 7 or is a member undergoing training in a capacity specified in item 2 to Schedule 9;

(b) was a member of the Navy to whom the Minister for Defence, in a letter dated 9 August 1983, gave certain undertakings as a consequence of the joint recommendation by the Secretary, Department of Defence and the Chief of Defence Force Staff to phase out Naval fixed wing flying which was presented to the Minister for Defence on 21 April 1983; and

(c) ceased, during the period from and including 25 July 1983 to and including 1 January 1986, to be a member of the Fleet Air Arm of the Navy as a result of the phase out of Naval fixed wing flying.

“8b. (1) A member to whom regulation 8a applies who—

(a) is a member of the Air Force;

(b) holds the rank of Flight Sergeant; and

(c) was, immediately before he ceased to be a member of the Fleet Air Arm of the Navy, a member holding the rank of Chief Petty Officer,

shall, for the purposes of sub-regulation 8 (1), be deemed to be a member who holds the rank of Chief Petty Officer and a reference to the number of years of service that the member has completed or is deemed to have completed is a reference to a period of service equal to the sum of—

(d) the period of service that the member had completed or was deemed to have completed as a Chief Petty Officer in the Navy; and

(e) the period of service rendered by the member while he continues to fulfil the conditions specified in paragraphs (a) and (b).

(2) A member of the Army or the Air Force to whom regulation 8a applies, other than a member to whom sub-regulation (1) also applies, shall, on enlistment with a rank in the Army or the Air Force be deemed, for the purposes of sub-regulation 8 (1), to have completed the period of service in that rank that is equal to the period of service which he had completed, or was deemed to have completed, in the rank in the Navy which corresponds to that first-mentioned rank.

(3) For the purposes of sub-regulation (2), a rank specified in column 2 of the following table opposite to an item in column 1 of that table is a rank which corresponds to a rank specified in column 3 or 4 of that table opposite to that item:

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Item	Navy	Army	Air Force
1	Warrant Officer	Warrant Officer, Class 1	Warrant Officer
2	Chief Petty Officer	Warrant Officer, Class 2
3	Petty Officer	Sergeant	Sergeant

 

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Item	Navy	Army	Air Force
4	Leading Seaman	Corporal	Corporal
5	Able Seaman	Lance Corporal	Leading Aircraftman
6	Seaman	Private	Aircraftman

“8c. (1) Where the rate of salary that would, but for this sub-regulation, be payable under sub-regulation 8 (1) to a member to whom regulation 8a applies is less than the rate of his notional salary, the rate of salary payable to him shall be that higher rate.

(2) For the purposes of sub-regulation (1), “notional salary”, in relation to a member, means the rate of salary specified in regulation 8d or in Schedule 8, as the case may be, in relation to—

(a) the rank held by the member immediately before he ceased to be a member serving in the Fleet Air Arm of the Navy;

(b) the pay level that was appropriate under the Service Financial Regulations to the member immediately before he ceased to be a member serving in the Fleet Air Arm of the Navy; and

(c) the number of years that is equal to the number of years that the member had completed, or was deemed to have completed, in that rank immediately before he ceased to be a member serving in the Fleet Air Arm of the Navy.

“8d. The rate of notional salary, in relation to a member, in respect of service on a day during the period from and including 25 July 1983 to and including 5 October 1983 is the rate specified in the following table in accordance with the provisions of paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of sub-regulation 8c (2):

Column 1	Column 2
Rates of Salary
Pay	Pay	Pay	Pay	Pay		Pay		Pay
Rank	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4	Level 5		Level 6		Level 7
$	$	$	$	$		$		$
Seaman........................	12,000	12,800	13,500	14,300	14,800		15,900		15,900
Able Seaman—
Under 1 year............	12,300	13,100	13,800	14,600	15,100		16,200		16,600
1 year........................	12,600	13,400	13,800	14,600	15,100		16,200		16,600
Leading Seaman—
Under 1 year............	13,200	14,000	14,400	15,200	15,700		16,700		17,200
1 year........................	13,600	14,400	14,900	15,700	16,200		17,200		17,700
Petty Officer—
Under 1 year............	14,400	15,200	15,700	16,700	17,200		18,200		18,700
1 year........................	14,800	15,600	16,200	17,200	17,700		18,700		19,200
2 years.......................	15,200	16,000	16,700	17,700	17,700		18,700		19,200
3 years.......................	15,600	16,400	17,200	17,700	17,700		18,700		19,200
4 years.......................	16,000	16,800	17,200	17,700	17,700		18,700		19,200
5 years.......................	16,400	17,200	17,200	17,700	17,700		18,700		19,200
6 years.......................	16,800	17,200	17,200	17,700	17,700		18,700		19,200
7 years.......................	17,200	17,200	17,200	17,700	17,700		18,700		19,200

 

Column 1	Column 2 Rates of Salary
Rank	Pay Level 1	Pay Level 2	Pay Level 3	Pay Level 4	Pay Level 5	Pay Level 6	Pay Level 7
$	$	$	$	$	$	$
Chief Petty Officer–
Under 1 year.......	20,800	20,800	20,800	20,800	20,800	21,800	21,800
1 year..................	21,300	21,300	21,300	21,300	21,300	22,300	22,300
2 years................	21,800	21,800	21,800	21,800	21,800	22,300	22,300
Warrant Officer–
Under 1 year.......	23,100	23,100	23,100	23,100	23,100	23,600	23,600
1 year..................	23,600	23,600	23,600	23,600	23,600	24,100	24,100
2 years................	24,100	24,100	24,100	24,100	24,100	24,100	24,100

Schedule 8

3. The Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations are amended by inserting after Schedule 7 the following Schedule:

SCHEDULE 8 Regulation 8c

MEMBERS TRANSFERRED FROM THE FLEET AIR ARM OF THE NAVY

Column 1	Column 2 Rates of Salary
Rank	Pay Level 1	Pay Level 2	Pay Level 3	Pay Level 4	Pay Level 5	Pay Level 6	Pay Level 7
$	$	$	$	$	$	$
Seaman	12,516	13,350	14,081	14,915	15,436	16,584	16,584
Able Seaman–
Under 1 year.......	12,829	13,663	14,393	15,228	15,749	16,897	17,314
1 year..................	13,142	13,976	14,393	15,228	15,749	16,897	17,314
Leading Seaman–
Under 1 year.......	13,768	14,602	15,019	15,854	16,375	17,418	17,940
1 year..................	14,185	15,019	15,541	16,375	16,897	17,940	18,461
Petty Officer–
Under 1 year.......	15,019	15,854	16,375	17,418	17,940	18,983	19,504
1 year..................	15,436	16,271	16,897	17,940	18,461	19,504	20,026
2 years................	15,854	16,688	17,418	18,461	18,461	19,504	20,026
3 years................	16,271	17,105	17,940	18,461	18,461	19,504	20,026
4 years................	16,688	17,522	17,940	18,461	18,461	19,504	20,026
5 years................	17,105	17,940	17,940	18,461	18,461	19,504	20,026
6 years................	17,522	17,940	17,940	18,461	18,461	19,504	20,026
7 years................	17,940	17,940	17,940	18,461	18,461	19,504	20,026
Chief Petty Officer–
Under 1 year.......	21,694	21,694	21,694	21,694	21,694	22,737	22,737
1 year..................	22,216	22,216	22,216	22,216	22,216	23,259	23,259
2 years................	22,737	22,737	22,737	22,737	22,737	23,259	23,259
Warrant Officer–
Under 1 year.......	24,093	24,093	24,093	24,093	24,093	24,615	24,615
1 year..................	24,615	24,615	24,615	24,615	24,615	25,136	25,136
2 years................	25,136	25,136	25,136	25,136	25,136	25,136	25,136

Application

4. The amendment of the Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations as effected by clauses 1 and 2 of this Interim Determination in relation to service by a member shall be deemed to have taken effect on 25 July 1983.

5. The amendment of the Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations as effected by clause 3 of this Interim Determination in relation to service by a member shall be deemed to have taken effect on 6 October 1983.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 19 April 1984.

2. Statutory Rules 1973 No. 100 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1984 No. 1 and see also