Statutory Rules
1977 No. 13
REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT
1903.*
I,
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice
of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under
the Defence Act 1903.
Dated this eleventh day of February, 1977.
JOHN
R. KERR
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
D.
J. KILLEN
Minister
of State for Defence
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Amendments
of the Military Financial Regulations
Repeal of regulations 12bband 137.
1. Regulations 12bb and
137 of the Military Financial Regulations are repealed.
Special allowance— officers appointed from rank of Private.
2. (1) Where
a member of the Army, being a member who held the rank of Private and to whom
pay level 6 was the pay level appropriate under the Military Financial Regulations,
was, with effect from the commencement of the prescribed period, appointed to
be an officer of the Army and the amount of salary paid to him in respect of
his service during that period is less than the amount of salary that would
have been payable to him in respect of that service had the rate of salary
payable to him in respect of that service been the rate of salary payable to
him immediately before the commencement of that period, he is entitled to be
paid in respect of that service an additional amount equal to the difference
between those 2 first-mentioned amounts.
(2) In this regulation, “ prescribed period ” means the
period from and including 14 December 1974 to and including 21 February 1975.
* Notified in the Australian
Government Gazette on 16 February 1977.
Statutory Rules 1966, No. 35 as amended
to date. For previous amendments of the Military Financial Regulations see footnote
to Statutory Rules 1977, No. 3 and see also