Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1970 No. 55

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE FORCES RETIREMENT BENEFITS ACT 1948-1969.*

WHEREAS it is provided by sub-section (4.) of section 4a of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1969 that, in that section, “the prescribed amount” means such amount, being a multiple of One hundred and thirty dollars, as is specified in the regulations for the purposes of that section:

AND WHEREAS it is provided by sub-section (5.) of that section that, in making a regulation for the purposes of sub-section (4.) of that section, the Governor-General shall have regard to any general variations in the rates of annual pay of members that have occurred:

NOW THEREFORE I, the Governor-General in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and having regard to general variations in the rates of annual pay of members that have occurred, hereby make the following Regulations under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1969.

Dated this sixteenth day of April, 1970.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Immigration acting for and on behalf of the Treasurer.

 

Amendment of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Regulations

1. Regulation 7a of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Amount specified for the purposes of section 4a.

“7a. The amount specified for the purposes of section 4a of the Act is Seven thousand five hundred and forty dollars.”.

Application.

2. The regulation inserted in the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Regulations by the last preceding regulation has effect, and shall be deemed to have taken effect, from and including the nineteenth day of December, 1969.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  1970.

  Statutory Rules 1949, No. 60, as amended by Statutory Rules 1950, No. 14; 1951, No. 111; 1954, Nos. 4 and 33; 1955, Nos. 14 and 45; 1956, No. 25; 1959, No. 104; 1964, Nos. 84, 114 and 162; 1965, Nos. 6, 37 and 161; 1966, Nos. 39, 97 and 134; 1967, No. 26; 1968, No. 80; and 1969, Nos. 8, 48 and 130.

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