Naval Forces Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1988 No. 2341

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 Regulation under the Naval Defence Act 1910.

Dated 22 September 1988.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

R. Kelly

Minister of State for Defence Science and Personnel

 

Regulation 33 of the Naval Forces Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:

Provisional promotion

“33. (1) For the purposes of section 8 of the Act, the qualifications and requirements set out in this regulation are prescribed in relation to promotions.

“(2) An officer who is not eligible under subregulation 32 (1) for promotion to a rank may be promoted to that rank provisionally for a period not exceeding 2 years.

“(3) Where an officer, who is not eligible under subregulation 32 (1) for promotion to a rank because of a condition, qualification or requirement, fails, during a period of provisional promotion under subregulation (2) to that rank, to make satisfactory progress towards satisfying that condition, obtaining that qualification or meeting that requirement, the Chief of Naval Staff may revoke that provisional promotion.

“(4) Where an officer does not become eligible under subregulation 32 (1) for promotion to a rank during a period of provisional promotion under subregulation (2) to that rank, that provisional promotion lapses at the end of that period.”.

 

(S.R. 126/88) Cat. No. 16/15.8.1988

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 30 September 1988.

2. Statutory Rules 1935 No. 133 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1988 No. 39 and see also Statutory Rules 1988 Nos. 39 and 128.

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