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

STATUTORY RULES

1972 No.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910–1971.*

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 Naval Defence Act 1910–1971.

Dated this eleventh day of May, 1972.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Sgd. M. G. Mackay

Minister of State for the Navy.

Amendments of the Naval Forces (Women’s Services) Regulations

1. Regulation 21e of the Naval Forces (Women’s Services) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Enlistment.

“21e. A person is not eligible to enlist in the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service Reserve unless—

(a) she has served in the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service, the Australian Regular Army or the Permanent Air Force for a period of not less than one year; and

(b)she has not attained the age of forty-five years.”.

2. Regulation 21g of the Naval Forces (Women’s Services) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Rating on enlistment.

“21g.—(1.) Where a person has served in the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service before enlisting in the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service Reserve, the person holds, upon enlistment, the rating that she held in the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service immediately before she was discharged from that Service or, if she held a rating temporarily immediately before being so discharged, the rating last held by her that was not held temporarily.

“(2.) Subject to the last preceding sub-regulation, where a person who has served in a prescribed force before enlisting in the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service Reserve held, immediately before she was discharged from that force, a rank specified in an item in the following table (in the second or third column), the person holds, upon enlistment in the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service Reserve, the rating specified in that item (in the first column).

First column	Second column	Third column
Ruling in Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service Reserve	Rank in Australian Regular Army	Rank in Permanent Air Force
1. Warrant Officer.............................	Warrant Officer, Class 1	Warrant Officer
2. Chief Petty Officer Wran...............	Warrant Officer, Class 2 Staff Sergeant	Flight Sergeant
3. Petty Officer Wran........................	Sergeant	Sergeant
4. Leading Wran...............................	Corporal	Corporal
5. Wran............................................	Lance Corporal	Leading Aircraftwoman
Private	Aircraftwoman

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1972.

  Statutory Rules 1943, No. 67, as amended by Statutory Rules 1943, No. 201; 1941, Nos.191 and 155; 1959, No. 103; 1961, No. 34; 1964, No. 138; 1967, No. 105; 1968. No. 72; 1970, No. 63; and 1971, No. 157.

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“(3.) Where a person held a rank temporarily immediately before she was discharged from a prescribed force, the person shall, for the purpose of the last preceding sub-regulation, be deemed to have held, immediately before she was so discharged, the rank last held by her in that force that was not held temporarily.

“(4.) For the purpose of this regulation, the Australian Regular Army and the Permanent Air Force are each a prescribed force.”.

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