Statutory Rules
1974 No. 79
REGULATIONS UNDER THE AIR FORCE ACT 1923-1973.*
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Air Force Act 1923-1973.
Dated this fifteenth day of May, 1974.
Paul Hasluck
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister of State for Defence.
Amendments of the Air Force Regulations†
Commencement.
1. These Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1 January 1973.
Recreation leave—basis for granting leave and time of eligibility for grant.
2. Regulation 122 of the Air Force Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting sub-regulation (2) and substituting the following sub-regulations:—
“(2) A member, other than a flying member, who was a member on 1 January 1973 may be granted—
(a) in respect of his service in the year that ended on 30 June 1971 or an earlier year—recreation leave for a period not exceeding fifteen days (not including a Saturday, Sunday or holiday);
(b) in respect of his service in the year that ended on 30 June 1972—recreation leave for a period not exceeding—
(i) seven and one half days (not including a Saturday, Sunday or holiday) in respect of the period 1 July 1971 to 31 December 1971; and
* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 21 May 1974.
† 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. 6; 1952, Nos. 14 34, 49 and 86; 1954, Nos. 30 and 132; 1955, Nos. 36, 41 and 92; 1956, Nos. 19 and 4; 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; 164, Nos. 9, 13, 47, 94 and 9; 1965, Nos. 9, 10, 25, 57, 58, 7, 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. 50, 78 and 121; 1972, Nos. 16. 23, 54, 87, 89 91 and 144; and 1973, Nos. 96, 97, 98, 100, 172, 199, 200, 246 and 258. See also the Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations (Statutory Rules 1973, No. 100, as amended by Statutory by Statutory Rules 1973, No. 132, 201, 203, 249 and 269.
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(ii) ten days (not including a Saturday, Sunday or holiday) in respect of the period 1 January 1972 to 30 June 1972; and
(c) in respect of his service in a subsequent year—recreation leave for a period not exceeding twenty days (not including a Saturday, Sunday or holiday).
“(2a) A member, other than a flying member, who became a member after 1 January 1973 may be granted in respect of each year of his service recreation leave for a period not exceeding twenty days (not including a Saturday, Sunday or holiday).”;
(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (5) the words “Where the period” and substituting the words “Subject to sub-regulation (5a), where the period”;
(c) by omitting from sub-regulation (5) the figures and word “(1), (2) and (3)” and by substituting the figures and word “(1), (2), (2a) and (3)”; and
(d) by omitting sub-regulation (5a) and substituting the following sub-regulations:—
“(5a) Where the period for which a member, other than a flying member, who was a member on 1 January 1973, served in the year that, ended on 30 June 1972 is less than twelve months, the period of recreation leave that may be granted to the member in respect of his service in that year is a period equal to the sum of—
(a) the period (if any) that bears to seven and one half days the same proportion as the number of months during the period 1 July 1971 to 31 December 1971 for which the member served in that period, bears to six; and
(b) the period (if any) that bears to ten days the same proportion as the number of months during the period 1 January 1972 to 30 June 1972 for which the member served in that period bears to six.
“(5b) For the purposes of sub-regulations (5) and (5a), where a member has—
(a) served in a year; or
(b) served in a remote locality in a year,
for a number of months and a number of additional days, the member shall, if the number of additional days amount to not less than thirty, be deemed to have served for one additional month in that year or in that remote locality in that year, as the case may be, for each thirty days in the number of additional days.”.
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