Naval Forces Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1983 No. 2661

Naval Forces Regulations2 (Amendment)

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 Naval Defence Act 1910.

Dated 3 November 1983.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency's Command,

(Sgd) K. C. Beazley

Minister of State for Aviation

for and on behalf of the

Minister of State for Defence

Retiring age of officers

1. Regulation 102 of the Naval Forces Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from the table in sub-regulation (1)

“General List.................... 63 60 57 55 50 45 45 45",

and substituting

“General List.................... 63 60 57 55 50 47 47 45"; and

(b) by omitting from the table in sub-regulation (1)

"Supplementary List....................... ........................................ ........................................ ........................................ 55 50 45 45 45",

and substituting

"Supplementary List....................... ........................................ ........................................ ........................................ 55 50 47 47 45".

Transitional

2. (1) In this regulation—

"commencement date" means the date on which these Regulations come into operation;

"former retirement age" means, in relation to an officer, the age for the compulsory retirement of that officer that was applicable immediately before the commencement date.

(2) An officer who holds the rank of Lieutenant Commander or Lieutenant at the commencement date may, prior to attaining that age, elect in writing delivered to the Chief of Naval Staff to retain his former retirement age.

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(3) Where an officer elects under sub-regulation (2) to retain his former retirement age, that retirement age shall continue to apply in relation to that officer while he holds the rank of Lieutenant Commander or Lieutenant.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 10 November 1983. 

2. Statutory Rules 1935 No. 133 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1983 No. 42 and see also Statutory Rules 1983 No. 42, 62 and 205

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