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

Statutory Rules 1982 No. 551

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Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES 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 23 February 1982.

KEVIN NEWMAN

Minister of State for Administrative Services 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-paragraph (1) (b) (iii) “or is deemed to have completed under sub-regulation (1a)” after “completed”;

(b) by omitting sub-regulation (1a)and substituting the following sub-regulation:

“(1a) A member of the Army who—

(a) holds the rank of Private;

(b) has completed training for his category of employment or prospective employment;

(c) has, after the date of the completion of that training, completed not less than 1 year of service; and

(d) is proficient in his military trade or skill,

shall, for the purposes of this regulation, be deemed to be a member who holds the rank of Lance Corporal and any service rendered by that member while he continues to fulfil the conditions specified in paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d) shall, for the purposes of this regulation, be deemed to be service in the rank of Lance Corporal.”; and

(c) by omitting sub-regulation (2) and substituting the following sub-regulation:

“(2) In this regulation, a reference to service that a member has completed in a rank is, in relation to a member other than a member referred to in sub-regulation (1a) or (3), a reference to the service actually completed by the member in that rank and, in the case of a member who has been downgraded, reduced or reverted to a rank specified in Part I of Schedule 7, shall include any period or periods of service in that rank prior to promotion from that rank to a higher rank.”.

Application

2. This Interim Determination shall be deemed to have come into operation on 5 November 1981.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 4 March 1982.

2. Statutory Rules 1973 No. 100 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1982 No. 53 and see also