Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1966 No. 134

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE FORCES RETIREMENT BENEFITS ACT 1948-1965.*

WHEREAS it is provided by sub-section (4.) of section 4a of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1965 that in that section “the prescribed amount” means the amount of Five thousand four hundred and sixty dollars or such other amount, being a multiple of One hundred and thirty dollars, as is specified in the regulations for the purposes of that section;

AND WHEREAS by sub-section (5.) of that section it is provided 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 rate 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 1948-1965.

Dated this twenty-second day of September, 1966.

Casey

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Harold Holt

Prime Minister for and on behalf of the Treasurer.

 

Amendment of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Regulations

Amount specified for the purposes of Section 4a.

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 Regulation 7a of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

“7a. The amount specified for the purposes of section 4a of the Act is Six thousand three hundred and seventy 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 twenty-second day of July, 1966.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1966.

Statutory Rules 1949, No. 60, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Regulations, see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1966. No. 39, and see also Statutory Rules 1966, Nos. 39 and 97.

 

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

11979/66.—Price 5c (6d.) 10/14.9.1966