Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1968 No.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE FORCES RETIREMENT BENEFITS ACT 1948-1968.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1968.

Dated this nineteenth day of July, 1968.

CASEY

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Treasurer.

 

Amendments of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Regulations

Commencement.

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the day on which section 6 of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1968 comes into operation.

2. After regulation 2 of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Short service commission.

“2a. For the purpose of the definition of ‘short service commission’ in subsection (1.) of section 4 of the Act, ‘short service commission’ means—

(a) an appointment as an officer of the Permanent Naval Forces, being an appointment that is expressed, in accordance with cither paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of sub-section (1.) of section 9 of the Naval Defence Act 1910-1968, to be for a specified period of service in that part of the Naval Forces;

(b) an appointment as an officer of the part of the Permanent Military Forces known as the Australian Regular Army, being an appointment that is expressed, in accordance with either paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of sub-section (1.) of section 10a of the Defence Act 1903-1966, to be for a specified period of service in that part of the Military Forces; and

(c) an appointment as an officer of the Permanent Air Force, being an appointment that is expressed to be for a specified period of service in a part of the Permanent Air Force to be followed by a specified period of service in the Air Force Reserve.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  1968.

  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; and 1967, No. 26

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Retiring ages and pensions for certain classes of members.

3. Regulation 21 of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(1.) For the purposes of the definition of ‘retiring age for the rank held’ in sub-section (1.) of section 4 of the Act, the age for the compulsory retirement of a member is—

(a) in the case of a member who is a member of a branch or service, or a member of the Permanent Military Forces whose name is included on a list, specified in column 1 of the Third Schedule to these Regulations and who holds a rank specified or referred to opposite to that branch, service or list in column 2 of that Schedule—the age specified opposite to that rank in column 3 of that Schedule; and

(b) in the case of a member, not being a member referred to in the last preceding paragraph—the age for compulsory retirement of a member of the rank, branch and group of the member as prescribed, at the date of his retirement—

(i) in the case of the Naval Forces—under section 17 of the Naval Defence Act 1910-1968;

(ii) in the case of the Military Forces—under section 27 of the Defence Act 1903-1966; and

(iii) in the case of the Air Force—under section 9 of the Air Force Act 1923-1965.”.

 

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.