Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1955. No.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE FORCES

RETIREMENT BENEFITS ACT 1948-1954.*

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 1948-1954.

Dated this

day of  , 1955.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Treasurer.

Amendment of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Regulations.

 

1. Regulations 21 and 22 of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Regulations are repealed and the following regulation is inserted in their stead:—

Retiring ages and pensions for certain classes of members.

“21. 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 of the Permanent Naval Forces or the Permanent Military Forces who—

(a) is a member of a branch or service specified in the first column of the table set out at the foot of this regulation; and

(b) holds a rank specified opposite to that branch or service in the second column of that table,

is the age specified opposite to that rank in the third column of that table and, for the purposes of section 49 of the Act, the pension or benefit payable on retirement to or in respect of the member on or after attaining the retiring age for the rank held is—

(c) where a rank and force is specified opposite to the rank held by the member in the fourth column of that table— the pension or benefit to which the member would be entitled under the Act if he were a member holding that rank in that force; and

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette: on , 1955.

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

493—Price 3d. 9/28.1.1955.

 

(d) where a rank and force is not so specified—the pension or benefit to which the member would be entitled if this regulation did not apply in relation to him.

           

First Column.	Second Column.	Third Column.	Fourth Column.
Branch or Service.	Rank.	Retiring Age.	Rank and Force
Executive Branch of the Permanent Naval Forces	Vice-Admiral.........	60 years	..
	Rear-Admiral.........	57 years	Major-General, Permanent Military Forces
Naval Ordnance Inspection Branch of the Permanent Naval Forces	Chief Inspector.......	57 years	Captain, Permanent Naval Forces
Naval Dockyard Police Branch of the Permanent Naval Forces	Superintendent.......	50 years	Commander, Permanent Naval Forces
	Sub-Inspector.........	55 years	Commissioned Officer, Permanent Naval Forces
Printing and Stationery Service of the Permanent Military Forces	Colonel..................	57 years	..
	Lieutenant-Colonel	55 years	..
	Major.....................	55 years	..
	Captain..................	55 years	..
	Major-General........	60 years	..
Brigadier................	57 years	..
Colonel..................	57 years	..
Army Canteens Service of the Permanent Military Forces	Lieutenant-Colonel	55 years	..
	Major.....................	55 years	..
	Captain..................	55 years	..
Lieutenant..............	55 years	..
Second Lieutenant	55 years	..
Matron-in-chief......	55 years	..
Royal Australian Army Nursing Service	Principal Matron.....	55 years	..
	Matron...................	55 years	..
	Senior Sister...........	55 years	..
	Sister......................	55 years	..”

Application.

2. Regulation 21 of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Regulations as amended by the last preceding regulation—

(a) shall, in its application to an officer of the Army Canteens Service, be deemed to have come into operation on the twenty-eighth day of January, 1954; and

(b) shall, in its application to an officer of the Royal Australian. Army Nursing Service, be deemed to have come into operation on the twenty-eighth day of September, 1951.

Printed for the Government of the Commonwealth by A. J. Arthur

at the Government Printing Office, Canberra