STATUTORY RULES
1967 No. 105
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REGULATIONS
UNDER THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910-1966.*
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 1910-1966.
Dated
this twenty-seventh day of July, 1967.
CASEY
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
(Sgd.) Peter
Howson
Minister of State for
Air for and on behalf of the Minister of State for the Navy.
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Amendment of the Naval Forces (Women’s Services) REGULATIONS
1. Regulation 15 of the
Naval Forces (Women’s Services) Regulations is repealed and the following
regulation inserted in its stead:—
Period
of enlistment.
“15.—(1.) For the purposes of
sub-section (1.) of section 25 of the Naval
Defence Act 1910-1966, the prescribed period in relation to service in the
Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service is a period of four or six years.
“(2.) For the purposes of
sub-section (2.) of section 25 of the Naval
Defence Act 1910-1966 the prescribed period in relation to service in the
Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service is a period of one, two, three, four,
five or six years.
“(3.) A rating serving under an
engagement for a period of four years may, before the expiration of six months
after the date of her enlistment, volunteer to re-engage for a period of six
years’ service commencing on the date on which she is re-engaged so to serve
and may be re-engaged for service accordingly.
“(4.) For the purposes of the Naval Defence Act 1910-1966 and these
Regulations, where a rating is re-engaged for service under sub-regulation (3.)
of this regulation, she shall be deemed to be serving for the period for which
she re-engaged to serve and not for the period for which she enlisted to serve.
“(5.) The Naval Defence Act 1910-1966, in its application to and in relation
to female members of the Naval Forces, is modified to the extent that
sub-section (3.) of section 25 of that Act shall not apply to ratings who are
re-engaged for service in accordance with sub-regulation (3.) of this
regulation.”.
*
Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette
on 1967.
Statutory Rules 1943, No. 67, as amended by Statutory Rules 1943, No. 201;
1944, Nos. 101 and 155; 1959, No. 103; 1961, No. 34; and 1964, No. 138.
6901/67—Price 5c 10/5.7.1967
Transitional
provision.
2. A
rating serving in the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service at the date of
commencement of these Regulations under an engagement for a period of four
years, being a rating who enlisted for service on or after the first day of
May, 1966, may, notwithstanding that a period of six months has elapsed after
the date of her enlistment, by force of this regulation, volunteer under
sub-regulation (3.) of regulation 15 of the Naval Forces (Women’s Services)
Regulations as amended by these Regulations to re-engage for service for a
period of six years, and may be re-engaged accordingly.
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By
Authority: A. J. Arthur,
Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra