STATUTORY RULES.
1946. No. 111.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE AIR FORCE ACT 1923-1941.*
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 1923-1941.
Dated this third day of July, 1946.
HENRY
Governor-General.
By His Royal Highness’s Command,
NORMAN J. O. MAKIN
Acting Minister of State for Air.
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Amendments of the Air Force Regulations.†
1. After regulation 93 of the Air Force Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—
Re-enlistment in Permanent Air Force after service in time of war in Citizen Air Force.
“93a.—(1.)A person who immediately before becoming, in time of war, a member of the Citizen Air Force was an airman in the Permanent Air Force and who has served continuously on full time duty in the Citizen Air Force from the date upon which he ceased to be a member of the Permanent Air Force may, with the approval of the Air Board, be re-enlisted in the Permanent Air Force, notwithstanding that he is over the age of thirty-five years, if he is medically fit for service and satisfactory in conduct and efficiency.
(2.) Where an airman is re-enlisted in the Permanent Air Force in pursuance of the last preceding sub-regulation—
(a) he shall be appointed to the same substantive rank or classification as that held by him and be mustered in the same mustering or a mustering equivalent to that in which he was employed immediately prior to his ceasing to be a member of the Permanent Air Force;
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 4th July, 1946.
† Statutory Rules 1927, No. 161, as amended by Statutory Rules 1928, Nos. 52 and 109: 1929, Nos. 73 and 114; 1930, Nos. 77, 94 and 135; 1931, Nos. 3, 78 and 115; 1932, Nos. 9, 63 and 133; 1933, Nos. 10, 46, 58, 82, 89 and 117; 1934, Nos. 25, 51, 71, 81, 122 and 125; 1935, Nos. 32 and 98; 1936; No. 17; 1937, No. 21; 1938, Nos. 12, 13, 22, 18, 77, 97 and 120; 1939, Nos. 21, 64 and 142; 1940, Nos. 31, 53, 75, 114, 125, 140, 220, 241 and 270; 1941, Nos. 68, 106, 137, 181 and 228; 1942, Nos. 20, 158, 232, 254, 340, 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; and 1946, No. 40.—Eightieth amendment.
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(b) for the purpose of determining his eligibility for increments of pay, his service in the Citizen Air Force shall be deemed to be service in the rank or classification and mustering in the Permanent Air Force to which he is appointed;
(c) he shall be treated as a re-engaged airman for the purposes of regulation 112 of these Regulations; and
(d) he shall elect to serve for a period which will expire on the same date as that on which his period of re-engagement would have expired if he had not ceased to be a member of the Permanent Air Force and had elected to be re-engaged for six years from the date of the expiration of the period of enlistment or re-engagement current immediately prior to the time of his ceasing to be a member of the Permanent Air Force.”.
2. After regulation 106 of the Air Force Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—
Re-engagement of airman whose engagement has expired in time of war.
“106a. An airman of the Permanent Air Force whose engagement-has expired in time of war and who has not been re-engaged, may, notwithstanding that he has failed to elect to be re-engaged pursuant to Regulation 106 of these Regulations, if—
(a) he is medically fit for service;
(b) he is satisfactory in conduct and efficiency; and
(c) the Air Board approves,
be re-engaged after the termination of the war on the same terms and conditions and for a period which will expire on the same date as that on which his latest period of re-engagement would have expired if he had elected to be re-engaged on each occasion during the time of war on which he would have been entitled so to do.”.
Amendment of the Fourth Schedule.
3. The Fourth Schedule to the Air Force Regulations is amended by inserting in the fourth column of Table (i) Modifications, after the words “Omit clause 2.” opposite the figures “XV. | I. | 1993”, the following paragraph:—
“Omit clause 4 and insert in its stead the following clause: —
4. Smoking in Royal Australian Air Force aircraft is forbidden. This applies to aircrew and passengers, whether Service or civilian.’”.
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