Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1964. No. 114.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE FORCES RETIREMENT BENEFITS ACT 1948-1963.

WHEREAS it is provided by sub-section (4.) of section four a of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1963 that, in that section, “the prescribed amount” means the amount of Two thousand six hundred pounds or such other amount, being a multiple of Sixty-five pounds, 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:

And whereas it is provided by section sixteen a of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901-1964 that where, in an Act, the Governor-General is referred to, the reference shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be deemed to include the person for the time being administering the Government of the Commonwealth and shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be read as referring to a person so deemed to be included in the reference acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council:

Now therefore I, the Administrator of the Government of 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 1948-1963.

Dated this twenty seventh day of August, 1964.

E.W. WOODWARD

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Treasurer.

 

Amendment of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Regulations.

Commencement

1. These Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on the twenty-sixth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-four.

2. After regulation 7 of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Amount specified for purposes of section 4a.

“7a. The amount of Two thousand six hundred and sixty-five pounds is specified for the purposes of section 4a of the Act.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 28th August, 1964.

  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; and 1959, No. 104; and 1964, No. 84.

 

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

9/1.7.1964.