Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

 

STATUTORY RULES.

1959. No. 104

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE FORCES RETIREMENT

BENEFITS ACT 1948-1959.*

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 1948-1959.

Dated this 14th day of December, 1959.

W.J. SLIM

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(SGD.) HAROLD HOLT

Treasurer.

AMENDMENTS OF THE DEFENCE FORCES RETIREMENT BENEFITS REGULATIONS. 

1. Regulation 21 of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Retiring ages and pensions for certain classes of members.

“21.—(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 compulsory retirement of a member who—

(a) is a member of a branch or service specified in column 1 of the Third Schedule to these Regulations; and

(b) holds a rank specified opposite to that branch or service in column 2 of that Schedule,

is the age specified opposite to that rank in column 3 of that Schedule.

“(2.) The pension or benefit payable to or in respect of a member of the Permanent Naval Forces who holds, on the date of commencement of this regulation, the rank of Chief Inspector in the Naval Ordinance Design and Inspection Branch and who continues to hold that rank in that branch until he ceases to be a member is the pension or benefit to which the member would have been entitled under the Act if he had held the rank of Captain (Special Rate) on ceasing to be a member.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 14th December, 1959.

  Statutory Rules 1949, No. 60, as amended by Statutory Rules 1950. No. 14; 1951, No. 111; 1954, Nos. 4 and 33; and 1955, Nos. 14 and 45.

10239/59.—PRICE 3D. 9/7.12.1959.

 

Third Schedule.

2. After the Second Schedule to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Regulations the following Schedule is added:—

THIRD SCHEDULE.

Regulation 21.

            

Column 1.	Column 2.	Column 3.
Branch or Service.	Rank.	Retiring Age.
Permanent Naval Forces—
General List (Seaman Specialization).............	Vice-Admiral	60 years
	Rear-Admiral	57 years
Naval Ordnance Design and Inspection Branch	Chief Inspector	57 years
Naval Dockyard Police Branch......................	Superintendent	55 years
	Sub-Inspector	55 years
Any Branch, other than the Naval Dockyard Police Branch	A rank other than a rank of an officer	50 years
Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service......	Chief Officer	55 years
	First Officer	50 years
	Second Officer	50 years
	Third Officer	50 years
	Other Ranks	50 years
Permanent Military Forces—
Colonel	57 years
Printing and Stationery Service......................	Lieutenant-Colonel	55 years
	Major	55 years
Captain	55 years
Major-General	60 years
Brigadier	57 years
Colonel	57 years
Army Canteens Service.................................	Lieutenant-Colonel	55 years
	Major	55 years
Captain	55 years
Lieutenant	55 years
Second Lieutenant	55 years
Colonel	55 years
Lieutenant-Colonel	55 years
Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps	Major	55 years
Captain	55 years
Lieutenant	55 years
Colonel	55 years
Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps	Lieutenant-Colonel	55 years
	Major	55 years
	Captain	50 years
Lieutenant	50 years
Other ranks	50 years
Permanent Air Force—
Air Marshal	60 years
Air Vice-Marshal	57 years
Air Commodore	55 years
General Duties Branch..................................	Group Captain	55 years
Wing Commander	50 years
Squadron Leader	47 years
Flight Lieutenant	45 years
Air Vice-Marshal	60 years
Group Captain	57 years
Wing Commander	55 years
Any Branch, other than the General Duties Branch................................................................	Squadron Leader	55 years
	Flight Lieutenant	55 years
	Principal Air Chaplain	58 years
Chaplain First Class	57 years
Chaplain Second Class	55 years
Chaplain Third Class	55 years
Chaplain Fourth Class	55 years

THIRD SCHEDULE—continued.

 

Column 1.	Column 2.	Column 3.
Branch or Service.	Rank.	Retiring Age.
Permanent Air Force—continued.
Group Officer	55 years
Wing Officer	55 years
Women’s Royal Australian Air Force.............	Squadron Officer	50 years
	Flight Officer	50 years
Section Officer	50 years
Other ranks	50 years

(SGD.) HAROLD HOLT

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