STATUTORY RULES
1969 No. 148
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 twelfth day of September, 1969.
Paul Hasluck
Governor-General.
By His Excellency's Command,
Minister of State for Air.
Amendments of the Air Force Regulations†
Promotion to flight lieutenant.
1.—(1.) Regulation 65 of the Air Force Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulations (2.) and (4.).
(2.) The amendments of the Air Force Regulations effected by the last preceding sub-regulation do not affect the seniority in his rank of a flight lieutenant who was promoted to that rank before the commencement of these Regulations.
When provision, living out, living out away from home, ration and lodging allowances are not payable.
2. Regulation 571 of the Air Force Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) all words from and including the word " continued " to the end of the sub-regulation and inserting in their stead the words " continued for a continuous period exceeding six months without the approval of the Air Board.".
Rates of travelling allowance.
3.—(1.) Regulation 578 of the Air Force Regulations is amended by omitting the table in sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following table:—
Rank | Rate per day for residence in a Capital City | Rate per day for residence in a place other than a Capital City |
| $ | $ |
Air Vice-Marshal, Air Commodore........................ | 21.00 | 13.00 |
Group Captain, Group Officer........................... | 15.40 | 9.50 |
Wing Commander, Wing Officer or lower rank................ | 12.15 | 9.50 |
(2.) The rates of travelling allowance specified in the table in sub-regulation (1.) of regulation 578 of the Air Force Regulations as amended by these Regulations apply to and in relation to travelling allowance payable to a member (other than a member of the rank of Air Marshal) in respect of the fourteenth day of February, 1969, or any subsequent day.
Rate for Journey.
4. Regulation 579 of the Air Force Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (3.).
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 18 September 1969
† Statutory Rules 1927, No. 161 as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Air Force Regulations, see footnote † to Statutory Rules 1969, No. 3, and see also Statutory Rules 1969, Nos. 3 and
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Fare warrants and expenses— persons other than members.
5. Regulation 599 of the Air Force Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (4.) the words " appropriate rate in column 3 of the table in sub-regulation (1.) of ”and inserting in their stead the words " rate that would be appropriate if the allowance was payable under "; and
(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (7.) the word " sixteen " and inserting in its stead the word " eighteen ".
Mileage allowance.
6. Regulation 606 of the Air Force Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—
" 606. Where a member who, or the family of a member that, has been authorized under the last preceding regulation so to do travels on a journey in Australia in the member's private conveyance, an allowance, called ' mileage allowance ', is payable to the member subject to such conditions as the Air Board determines and at such rate, or in accordance with such scale of rates, as the Air Board determines.".
Education allowance.
7.—(1.) Regulation 634 of the Air Force Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (3.) the words " One thousand and fifty-five dollars " and inserting in their stead the words " One thousand one hundred and fifteen dollars ".
(2.) Where a member was in receipt of educational allowance in respect of the attendance of a child at a school as a boarder during the period from and including the first day of January, 1968 to and including the thirty-first day of December, 1968, or during a part of that period—
(a) the Air Board shall determine the amount that it would have considered reasonable for the purposes of paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (3.) of regulation 634 of the Air Force Regulations if the amount specified in that paragraph had been, One thousand one hundred and fifteen dollars; and
(b) the member is, by virtue of this regulation, entitled to be paid a sum equal to the amount by which the amount so determined is greater than the amount of education allowance paid in respect of the attendance of the child at a school as a boarder during that period or that part of that period.
(3.) Education allowance is payable in accordance with regulation 634 of the Air Force Regulations in respect of the attendance of a child at a school on or after the first day of January, 1969, as if the amendments of that regulation effected by sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation had come into operation on the first day of January, 1969.
Transitional provision-reimbursement of cost of travel.
8. Subject to such conditions as the Air Board determines, where, during the period from and including the second day of January, 1969, to and including the day immediately before the commencement of these Regulations, a member's child over the age of fifteen years travelled on a journey for which a fare warrant might have been issued under regulation 599 of the Air Force Regulations if the amendment of sub-regulation (7.) of that regulation effected by these Regulations had come into force on that date, the member may be reimbursed an amount not exceeding the cost which would have been incurred by the issue of that fare warrant.
Transitional provision— mileage allowance.
9.—(1.) In this regulation, " the relevant period " means the period from and including the eighteenth day of April, 1968, to and including the day immediately before the commencement of these Regulations.
(2.) Where the amount of mileage allowance paid or payable to a member or other person under regulation 599 or 606 of the Air Force Regulations in respect of a journey during the relevant period is less than the amount of mileage allowance that would have been, or would be, payable to him in respect of the journey if—
(a) the amendments of sub-regulation (4.) of regulation 599 and regulation 606 of those Regulations effected by these Regulations had come into force on the eighteenth day of April, 1968; and
(b) the first determination of rates, or scale of rates, of mileage allowance that is made by the Air Board for the purposes of regulation 606 of the Air Force Regulations, as amended by these Regulations, had been made on that date,
he is, by virtue of this sub-regulation, entitled to be paid an amount equal to the difference.
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