STATUTORY RULES
1972 No.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE AIR FORCE ACT 1923-1965.*
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 Air Force Act 1923-1965.
Dated this Sixth day of March, 1972.
Paul Hasluck
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
SGD. TOM DRAKE BROCKMAN
Minister of State for Air.
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Amendments of the Air Force Regulations.†
Active pay-officers.
1.—(1.) Regulation 543 of the Air Force Regulations is amended by omitting the table in sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following table:—
Rank and service | Rate per day |
Group Captain— | $ |
On appointment........................................... | 31.18 |
After 1 year’s service in rank.................................. | 32.96 |
Wing Commander— |
|
On appointment........................................... | 27.89 |
After 1 year’s service in rank.................................. | 29.40 |
Squadron Leader— |
|
On appointment........................................... | 22.69 |
After 1 year’s service in rank.................................. | 23.92 |
After 2 years’ service in rank.................................. | 25.15 |
After 3 years’ service in rank.................................. | 26.38 |
Flight Lieutenant— |
|
On appointment........................................... | 16.66 |
After 1 year’s service in rank.................................. | 17.62 |
After 2 years’ service in rank.................................. | 18.58 |
After 3 years’ service in rank.................................. | 19.54 |
After 4 years’ service in rank.................................. | 20.49 |
After 5 years’ service in rank.................................. | 21.45 |
Flying Officer— |
|
On appointment........................................... | 13.03 |
After 1 year’s service in rank.................................. | 13.92 |
After 2 years’ service in rank.................................. | 14.81 |
After 3 years’ service in rank.................................. | 15.70 |
Pilot Officer | 12.14 |
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1972.
† 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 223; 1942, Nos. 29, 158, 232, 254, 346, 383,416, 440, 441, 476 and 543; 1943, Nos. 119 and 198; 1944, Nos. 34, 50, 61, 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; 1982, 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, No. 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; and 1971, Nos. 29, 50, 78, 121, 153 and 169.
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(2.) Regulation 543 of the Air Force Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (2.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—
“ (2.) Subject to sub-regulation (5.) of this regulation, where an officer of the Permanent Air Force holds a rank specified in the table in this sub-regulation and, immediately before the officer was commissioned as such an officer, the officer—
(a) was serving in the Naval Forces on continuous full time naval service and held the rating of Warrant Officer, Chief Petty Officer or Petty Officer;
(b) was serving in the Military Forces on continuous full time military service and held the rank of Warrant Officer, Class 1, Warrant Officer, Class 2, Staff Sergeant or Sergeant; or
(c) was serving in the Air Force on continuous full time air-force service and held the rank of Warrant Officer, Flight Sergeant or Sergeant,
the daily rate of active pay of the officer is the rate specified in the second column of that table opposite to his length of service in that rank in the first column.
Rank and service | Rate per day |
| $ |
Flight Lieutenant— |
|
On appointment........................................... | 20.01 |
After 1 year’s service in rank.................................. | 20.49 |
After 3 years’ service in rank.................................. | 20.97 |
After 5 years’ service in rank.................................. | 21.45 |
Flying Officer— |
|
On appointment........................................... | 18.10 |
After 1 year’s service in rank.................................. | 18.58 |
After 2 years’ service in rank.................................. | 19.06 |
After 3 years’ service in rank.................................. | 19.54 |
Pilot Officer............................................... | 17.14 |
(3.) Regulation 543 of the Air Force Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (4.) the words “ Fifteen dollars eighty-eight cents ” and inserting in their stead the words “ Sixteen dollars sixty-six cents ”.
(4.) Regulation 543 of the Air Force Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulations (5.) and (6.) and inserting in their stead the following sub-regulations:—
“ (5.) Where—
(a) an officer was commissioned as an officer on or after the sixteenth day of December, 1971;
(b) the officer was serving on continuous full time service in the Defence Force immediately before he was commissioned as an officer; and
(c) the rate (in this sub-regulation referred to as ‘ the relevant rate ’) per day at which active pay was payable to the officer immediately before he was commissioned as an officer is higher than the basic rate for the officer, the daily rate of active pay of the officer is—
(d) if a rate higher than the relevant rate is specified in sub-regulation (1.) or (2.), whichever would but for this sub-regulation apply in the case of the officer, of this regulation in relation to his rank—the rate specified in that sub-regulation in relation to his rank that is next higher than the relevant rate; or
(e) in any other case—the relevant rate.
“ (6.) Where an officer becomes entitled to be paid active pay in accordance with paragraph (d) of the last preceding sub-regulation, the officer shall, for the purposes of pay, be deemed to have completed, immediately before the day as from which he commenced to be entitled to be paid active pay at that rate, the service in his rank that, but for the last preceding sub-regulation, he would have been required to have completed before he would have become entitled to be paid active pay at that rate.
“ (6a.) In sub-regulation (5.) of this regulation, ‘ the basic rate ’, in relation to an officer, means—
(a) in the case of an officer who, immediately before he was commissioned as an officer—
(i) was serving in the Naval Forces on continuous full time naval service and held the rating of Warrant Officer, Chief Petty Officer or Petty Officer;
(ii) was serving in the Military Forces on continuous full time military service and held (he rank of Warrant Officer, Class 1, Warrant Officer, Class 2, Staff Sergeant or Sergeant; or
(iii) was serving in the Air Force on continuous full time air-force service and held the rank of Warrant Officer, Flight Sergeant or Sergeant,
the rate specified in sub-regulation (2.) of this regulation in relation to his rank and his service in his rank; or
(b) in any other case—the rate specified in sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation in relation to his rank and his service in his rank.”.
(5.) Regulation 543 of the Air Force Regulations is amended by omitting the table in sub-regulation (8.) and inserting in its stead the following table:—
Length of service | Rate per day |
| $ |
Less than 1 year............................................ | 16.66 |
Not less than 1 but less than 2 years............................... | 17.62 |
Not less than 2 but less than 3 years............................... | 18.58 |
Not less than 3 but less than 4 years............................... | 19.54 |
Not less than 4 but less than 6 years............................... | 20.49 |
Not less than 6 but less than 8 years............................... | 21.45 |
Not less than 8 but less than 10 years............................... | 22.33 |
Not less than 10 but less than 12 years.............................. | 23.21 |
Not less than 12 but less than 14 years.............................. | 24.08 |
Not less than 14 but less than 16 years.............................. | 24.96 |
Not less than 16 but less than 18 years.............................. | 25.84 |
Not less than 18 but less than 20 years.............................. | 26.71 |
Not less than 20 but less than 22 years.............................. | 27.59 |
Not less than 22 years......................................... | 28.47 |
(6.) Regulation 543 of the Air Force Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (8a.) the words “ Twenty-seven dollars eighty-six cents ” and inserting in their stead the words “ Twenty-nine dollars forty cents ”.
(7.) Regulation 543 of the Air Force Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (9.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—
“ (9.) Subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, the daily rate of active pay of an officer of the Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service or the Women’s Royal Australian Air Force, other than an officer who is a qualified medical or dental practitioner, is the rate specified, in relation to her rank and service, in the following table:—
Rank and service | Rate per day |
| $ |
Group Officer— |
|
On appointment............................................ | 24.81 |
After 1 year’s service in rank................................... | 26.23 |
Wing Officer— |
|
On appointment............................................ | 22.18 |
After 1 year’s service in rank................................... | 23.38 |
Squadron Officer— |
|
On appointment........................................... | 18.01 |
After 1 year’s service in rank................................... | 19.00 |
After 2 years’ service in rank................................... | 19.99 |
After 3 years’ service in rank................................... | 20.97 |
Flight Officer— |
|
On appointment............................................ | 13.19 |
After 1 year’s service in rank................................... | 13.96 |
After 2 years’ service in rank................................... | 14.73 |
After 3 years’ service in rank................................... | 15.49 |
After 4 years’ service in rank................................... | 16.26 |
After 5 years’ service in rank................................... | 17.03 |
Section Officer— |
|
On appointment........................................... | 10.29 |
After 1 year’s service in rank................................... | 11.00 |
After 2 years’ service in rank................................... | 11.71 |
After 3 years’ service in rank................................... | 12.43 |
(8.) Regulation 543 of the Air Force Regulations is amended by inserting after sub-regulation (9.) the following sub-regulation:—
Pay of members holding the rank of Corporal or a lower rank.
“ (9a.) Where the rate at which active pay was payable to an officer to whom the last preceding sub-regulation applies, being an officer who was commissioned from warrant or non-commissioned rank on or after the sixteenth day of December, 1971, immediately before she was so commissioned is higher than the rate at which active pay would, but for this sub-regulation, be payable to her under the last preceding sub-regulation, the daily rate of active pay of the officer is that higher rate.”.
2. Regulation 549 of the Air Force Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (4.) the words “ Five dollars forty-six cents ” and inserting in their stead the words “ Six dollars forty-six cents ”.
Pay of Warrant Officers, flight Sergeants and Sergeants.
3. Regulation 549a of the Air Force Regulations is amended by omitting the table in sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following table:—
Rank | Male airman—scale of rates per day in dollars | Airwoman—scale of rates per day in dollars |
1. Warrant Officer........................ | (a) 18.04 | (a) 16.82 |
| (b) 19.00 | (b) 17.59 |
2. Flight Sergeant......................... | (a) 13.52 | (a) 13.20 |
| (b) 14.41 | (b) 13.92 |
| (c) 15.30 | (c) 14.63 |
| (d) 16.19 |
|
| (e) 17.08 |
|
3. Sergeant............................. | (a) 8.28 | (a) 7.96 |
| (b) 9.11 | (b) 8.79 |
| (c) 9.99 | (c) 9.67 |
| (d) 10.87 | (d) 10.56 |
| (e) 11.75 | (e) 11.44 |
| (f) 12.63 | (f) 12.32 |
| (g) 13.52 | (g) 13.20 |
Sixth Schedule.
4. The Sixth Schedule to the Air Force Regulations is repealed and the following Schedule inserted in its stead:—
THE SIXTH SCHEDULE Regulation 549.
Rates of Active Pay of Airwomen Holding Certain Ranks
Rank | Daily rates of active pay in dollars | |||||
Pay level 1 | Pay level 2 | Pay level 3 | Pay level 4 | Pay level 5 | Pay level 6 | |
Corporal ..... | 7.41 | 8.24 | 9.12 | 10.01 | 10.89 | 11.77 |
Leading Aircraftwoman | 6.96 | 7.79 | 8.67 | 9.56 | 10.44 | 11.37 |
Aircraftwoman. | 6.70 | 7.53 | 8.41 | 9.30 | 10.18 | 11.06 |
Application.
5.—(1.) The rates of active pay provided for in the Air Force Regulations as amended by regulation 1 of these Regulations apply to and in relation to the service of an officer in the Air Force on and after the sixteenth day of December, 1971.
(2.) The rates of active pay provided for in the Air Force Regulations as amended by regulations 2, 3 and 4 of these Regulations apply to and in relation to service of an airwoman in the Air Force on and after the first day of January, 1972.
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