Naval Forces (Women's Services) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1983 No. 11

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Naval Forces (Women's Services) 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 11 January 1983.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency's Command,

IAN SINCLAIR

Minister of State for Defence

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1. Regulation 17 of the Naval Forces (Women's Services) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:

Ranks of enlisted servicewomen and corresponding ranks

''17. The ranks of servicewomen enlisted in the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service shall be those set out in Columns 2 and 3 of the Schedule and, for the purpose of determining relative ranks, each rank in an item in the Schedule shall correspond to each other rank in that item.".

Schedule

2. The Naval Forces (Women's Services) Regulations are amended by adding at the end thereof the following Schedule:

 

SCHEDULE Regulation 17

RANKS IN THE WOMEN'S ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVAL

SERVICE AND CORRESPONDING RANKS OF SAILORS IN THE NAVY

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3 Ranks of other enlisted	Column 4
Item	Ranks of enlisted servicewomen in Naval Police	servicewomen in Women's Royal Australian Naval Service	Corresponding ranks of sailors in the Navy
1	Warrant Officer	Warrant Officer	Warrant Officer
2	Sergeant	Chief Petty Officer	Chief Petty Officer
3	Senior Constable	Petty Officer	Petty Officer
4	Constable	Leading Wran	Leading Seaman
5	Recruit Constable	Senior Wran	Able Seaman
6	—	Wran	Seaman
7	—	Recruit	Recruit

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 18 January 1983.

2. Statutory Rules 1943 No. 67 as amended by 1943 No. 201; 1944 Nos. 101 and 155; 1959 No. 103; 1961 No. 34; 1964 No. 138; 1967 No. 105; 1968 No. 72; 1970 No. 63; 1971 No. 157; 1972 No. 67; 1973 No. 271; 1976 No. 38; 1979 No. 253; 1981 No. 228.