STATUTORY RULES.
1959. No. 100
REGULATIONS UNDER THE AIR FORCE ACT 1923-1956.*
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 1923-1956.
Dated this 4th day of December, 1959.
W. J. SLIM
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister of State for Air.
AMENDMENTS OF THE AIR FORCE REGULATIONS.†
Commencement.
1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the fourteenth day of December, 1959.
Power to appoint and promote officers.
2. Regulation 45 of the Air Force Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (2.) the words “four years” and inserting in their stead the words “eight years, six years or four years”.
3. After regulation 45 of the Air Force Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—
Termination and re-appointment of certain officers.
“45A.—(1.) The Governor-General may terminate the appointment of an officer of the Women’s Royal Australian Air Force who—
(a) is, at the date of commencement of this regulation, serving under a short service commission or under an extension of such a commission; and
(b) makes, within four months after that date or before the termination of her appointment or the end of the period for which her commission has been extended, whichever first occurs, application for the termination of her appointment and for re-appointment under this regulation.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 4th December, 1959,
† 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; 1948, 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; and 1958, No. 62.
8929/59.—PRICE 3D. 14/23.11.1959.
“(2.) The Governor-General shall immediately re-appoint an officer whose appointment has been terminated under the last preceding sub-regulation with the rank held by her immediately before the termination and shall issue to the officer a short service commission in the Permanent Air Force for a period of six years in the Active Force, followed by a period of at least five years in the Reserve.
“(3.) An officer re-appointed under this regulation shall have the same seniority as that held by her under the appointment that is terminated under this regulation.”.
Retiring age.
4.—(1.) Regulation 88 of the Air Force Regulations is amended by omitting the table in sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following table:—
Substantive Rank or Class. | General Duties Branch. | Other Branches. |
Air Marshal................................... | 60 | .. |
Air Vice-Marshal................................ | 57 | 60 |
Air Commodore................................ | 55 | 58 |
Principal Air Chaplain............................ | .. | 58 |
Group Captain.................................. | 55 | 57 |
Chaplain First Class.............................. | .. | 57 |
Group Officer.................................. | .. | 55 |
Wing Commander............................... | 50 | 55 |
Chaplain Second Class............................ | .. | 55 |
Wing Officer.................................. | .. | 55 |
Squadron Leader................................ | 47 | 55 |
Chaplain Third Class............................. | .. | 55 |
Squadron Officer................................ | .. | 50 |
Flight Lieutenant................................ | 45 | 55 |
Chaplain Fourth Class............................. | .. | 55 |
Flight Officer.................................. | .. | 50 |
Section Officer................................. | .. | 50
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(2.) The amendment made by the last preceding sub-regulation does not apply to, and shall be deemed not to have applied to, an officer—
(a) who has, at the commencement of this regulation, attained an age that is three years less than the age for the compulsory retirement of the officer specified in relation to his rank and branch in sub-regulation (1.) of regulation 88 of the Air Force Regulations as in force immediately before the commencement of this regulation; or
(b) whose age for retirement has, under sub-regulation (2.) of regulation 88 of the Air Force Regulations as so in force, been extended for a period that has not, at the date of commencement of this regulation, expired,
and who elects, by writing under his hand delivered to the Air Board before the prescribed day, that his age for compulsory retirement shall not be affected by that amendment.
(3.) For the purposes of the last preceding sub-regulation, the prescribed day is—
(a) the day that is four months after the date of commencement of this regulation; or
(b) the day on which—
(i) in the case of an officer referred to in paragraph (a) of the last preceding sub-regulation—the officer attains the age for his compulsory retirement specified in sub-regulation (1.) of regulation 88 of the Air Force Regulations as in force immediately before the commencement of this regulation; or
(ii) in the case of an officer referred to in paragraph (b) of the last preceding sub-regulation—the period for which his age for compulsory retirement has been extended under sub-regulation (2.) of regulation 88 of the Air Force Regulations as so in force ends,
whichever first occurs.
Re-engagement of airmen.
5. Regulation 106 of the Air Force Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (2.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulations:—
“(2.) The engagement or re-engagement of an airwoman who—
(a) is, at the date of commencement of this sub-regulation, serving under an engagement for a period of four years or under a re-engagement for a period of four years or two years;
(b) is medically fit; and
(c) applies, within four months after the date of commencement of this sub-regulation or before the end of the period of her engagement or re-engagement, whichever first occurs, for the cancellation of her engagement or re-engagement and for re-engagement under this regulation,
shall be cancelled, and the airwoman shall be re-engaged for a period of six years.
“(3.) The next succeeding regulation applies to and in relation to an airwoman to whom this regulation applies in the same manner as it applies to an airman accepted for re-engagement under sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation.”.
Retiring age for airmen and airwomen.
6. Regulation 118 of the Air Force Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the words “an airman” and inserting in their stead the words “a member other than an officer or an airwoman”; and
(b) by inserting after sub-regulation (1.) the following sub-regulation:—
“(1A.) The age for compulsory retirement of an airwoman shall be fifty years.”.
By Authority: A. J. ARTHUR, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.