Statutory Rules
1979 No. 19
REGULATIONS UNDER THE AIR FORCE ACT 19231
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 Air Force Act 1923.
Dated this fourteenth day of February 1979.
ZELMAN COWEN
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
D.J. KILLEN
Minister of State for Defence
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AMENDMENTS OF THE AIR FORCE REGULATIONS2
1 Leave without pay
Regulation 134 of the Air Force Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (2) “Subject to sub-regulation (3), leave” and substituting “Leave”;
(b) by inserting in sub-regulation (2) “or” after “retirement,”;
(c) by omitting from sub-regulation (2) “, or long service leave”; and
(d) by omitting sub-regulation (3).
2 Leave of absence for long service
Part VA of the Air Force Regulations is repealed.
3 Regulation 538A of the Air Force Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:
Payment to dependants
“538A. (1) Where the Minister has authorized the payment of a sum of money under sub-regulation 534 (3) or 534A (4) to the dependants of a member, the sum may be paid—
(a) if there is 1 dependant, to that dependant; or
(b) if there are 2 or more dependants, to those dependants in such proportions as the Minister directs.
“(2) Where the Minister has authorized the payment of a sum of money under sub‑regulation 534 (3) or 534A (4) and a dependant to whom the whole or a part of that sum is payable is under the age of 18 years or, for any other reason, is incapable of acting on his own behalf, the sum so payable to that dependant—
(a) may be paid on behalf of that dependant to a person approved by the Minister; or
(b) may be vested in trustees upon such trusts for the benefit of that dependant as the Minister directs.”.
NOTES
1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 21 February 1979.
2. Statutory Rules 1927 No. 161 as amended by Statutory Rules 1928 Nos. 52 and 109; 1929 Nos. 75 and 114; 1930 Nos. 77, 94 and 135; 1931 Nos. 3, 78 and 115; 1932 Nos. 9, 63 and 133; 1933 Nos. 16, 46, 58, 82, 89 and 117; 1934 Nos. 25, 51, 74, 81, 122 and 125; 1935 Nos. 32 and 98; 1936 No. 17; 1937 No. 21; 1938 Nos. 12, 13, 22, 48, 77, 97 and 120; 1939 Nos. 21, 64 and 142; 1940 Nos. 31, 53, 75, 114, 125, 140, 220, 241 and 279; 1941 Nos. 68, 106, 137, 181 and 228; 1942 Nos. 29, 158, 232, 254, 346, 383, 416, 440, 441, 476 and 543; 1943 Nos. 119 and 198; 1944 Nos. 34, 50, 64, 75, 146 and 153; 1945 Nos. 49, 79, 95, 105, 196 and 201; 1946 Nos. 40, 111, 145 and 162; 1947 No. 22; 1948 Nos. 34, 51, 67, 86 and 152; 1949 Nos. 82, 86 and 115; 1950 No. 66; 1952 Nos. 14, 34, 49 and 86; 1954 Nos. 30 and 132; 1955 Nos. 36, 41 and 92; 1956 Nos. 19 and 43; 1958 No. 62; 1959 No. 100; 1960 No. 52; 1961 Nos. 7, 14, 28, 46, 88, 95, 126, 131 and 138; 1962 No. 24; 1963 Nos. 63, 64, 76, 91, 114, 116 and 117; 1964 Nos. 9, 13, 47, 94 and 99; 1965 Nos. 9, 10, 25, 57, 58, 77, 141, 142, 143, 153 and 166; 1966 Nos. 4, 30, 127 and 150; 1967 Nos. 11, 39, 104 and 171; 1968 Nos. 90, 98, 140 and 155; 1969 Nos. 3, 116, 117, 148 and 180; 1970 Nos. 2, 37, 117, 132 and 156; 1971 Nos. 29, 50, 78, 121, 153 and 169; 1972 Nos. 16, 28, 54, 87, 89, 91 and 144; 1973 Nos. 96, 97, 98, 100, 172, 199, 200, 246 and 256; 1974 Nos. 76, 79, 90, 160, 202 and 257; 1975 Nos. 3, 38 and 56; 1976 Nos. 6, 10, 60, 128, 191, 241 and 257; 1977 Nos. 5, 38, 129, 142, 203, 240, 276, 277 and 279; and 1978 Nos. 23, 61, 71, 78, 89, 162, 181, 198, 225, 237 and 238.