Statutory Rules
1976 No. 99
REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE FORCE RETIREMENT AND DEATH BENEFITS ACT 1973-1975.*
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973-1975.
Dated this seventh day of May, 1976.
JOHN R. KERR
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
D. J. KILLEN
Minister of State for Defence.
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Amendments of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (Annual Rates of Pay) Regulations†
Commencement.
1. (1) Regulation 2 shall be deemed to have come into operation on 15 May 1975.
(2) Regulations 3 and 4 shall be deemed to have come into operation—
(a) in relation to members of the Navy or the Army—on 19 September 1975; and
(b) in relation to members of the Air Force—on 18 September 1975.
Annual rate of pay on or after 8 or 9 February 1973.
2. Regulation 4 of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (Annual Rates of Pay) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—
“ (11) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-regulation (5), on a day during the period 15 May 1975 to 8 September 1975 (inclusive) the annual pay applicable to a member of the Defence Force described in item 1 or 2 of Schedule 2 is $33,670 or $31,080 respectively.”.
Schedule 2.
3. Schedule 2 to the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (Annual Rates of Pay) Regulations is amended by omitting items 3 and 4 and substituting the following items:—
3. Rear-Admiral......... | Major-General......... | Air Vice-Marshal....... | 27,547 |
4. Commodore.......... | Brigadier............. | Air Commodore........ | 23,408 |
* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 14 May 1976.
† Statutory Rules 1973, No. 188, as amended by Statutory Rules 1973, No. 261; 1974, Nos. 14, 161 and 234; 1975, Nos. 141 and 195; and 1976, No. 42.
Schedules 3 and 4.
4. Schedules 3 and 4 to the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (Annual Rates of Pay) Regulations are repealed and the following Schedules substituted:—
SCHEDULE 3 Sub-regulation 4 (7)
Chaplains
Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 |
Navy | Army | Air Force | Annual Pay |
|
|
| $ |
1.................... | Chaplain-General.......... | Principal Air Chaplain..... | 18,365 |
2. Chaplain with not less than 20 years’ service as a Chaplain | Chaplain, Third Class, with not less than 16 years’ service in that | Chaplain with not less than 20 years’ service as a Chaplain | 17,890 |
3. Chaplain with less than 20 but not less than 12 years’ service as a Chaplain | classification Chaplain Third Class, with less than 16 but not less than 8 years’ service in that classification | Chaplain with less than 20 but not less than 12 years’ service as a Chaplain | 16,942 |
4. Chaplain with less than 12 but not less than 4 years’ service as a Chaplain | Chaplain. Third Class. with less than 8 years’ service in that classification | Chaplain with less than 12 but not less than 4 years’ service as a Chaplain | 15,045 |
5. Chaplain with less than 4 years’ service as a Chaplain | Chaplain, Fourth Class | Chaplain with less than 4 years’ service as a Chaplain | 13,036 |
SCHEDULE 4 Sub-regulation 4 (8)
Members undergoing training
Item | Training Capacities | Annual Pay |
|
| $ |
1 | Normal Entry Recruits during basic recruit training.......................... | 5,961 |
2 | Trainees, including Seamen in the Navy who have attained the age of 17 years and who have not completed their category training— |
|
| 1st year................................................... | 6,229 |
| 2nd and subsequent years....................................... | 7,143 |
3 | Junior Trainees, being Junior Musicians, Apprentice Musicians and other Apprentices— |
|
| 1st year................................................... | 3,871 |
| 2nd year................................................... | 3,871 |
| 3rd year................................................... | 5,279 |
| 4th year................................................... | 6,193 |
4 | Seamen in the Navy who have not attained the age of 17 years and Junior Recruits in the Navy | 2,937 |
5 | Royal Military College Cadets, Air Cadets at the Air Force Academy and subordinate officers (that is to say, officers of the Navy who hold the rank of Acting Sub-Lieutenant or a lower rank) who entered the Royal Australian Naval College by way of Senior Entry— |
|
| 1st year................................................... | 4,788 |
| 2nd year................................................... | 4,788 |
| 3rd year................................................... | 5,335 |
| 4th year................................................... | 5,880 |
| 5th year................................................... | 6,427 |
| 6th year................................................... | 6,974 |
6 | Subordinate officers (that is to say, officers of the Navy who hold the rank of Acting Sub-Lieutenant or a lower rank) who entered the Royal Australian Naval College by way of Junior Entry— |
|
| 1st year................................................... | 3,264 |
| 2nd year................................................... | 3,752 |
| 3rd year................................................... | 4,788 |
| 4th year................................................... | 4,788 |
| 5th year................................................... | 5,335 |
| 6th year................................................... | 5,880 |
Schedule 4—continued
Item No. | Training Capacities | Annual Pay |
|
| $ |
7 | Members, not being members referred to in items 5 and 6, undertaking degree courses— |
|
| with 3 years to graduation........................................ | 4,788 |
| with 2 years to graduation........................................ | 5,335 |
| in final year.................................................. | 5,880 |
8 | Members of the Navy, and Air Cadets not at the Air Force Academy, undertaking Diploma courses— |
|
| 1st year..................................................... | 3,752 |
| 2nd year (or matriculation or equivalent entry)........................... | 4,788 |
| 3rd year.................................................... | 4,788 |
| 4th year.................................................... | 5,335 |
9 | Male Officer Trainees— |
|
| Officer Cadets (Army) and Aircrew Cadets (Air Force)....................... | 5,335 |
| If completed degree course.......................................... | 5,880 |
10 | Female Officer Trainees............................................. | 4,268 |
| If completed degree course.......................................... | 4,704 |
11 | Members to the Navy, other than members referred to in another item of this Schedule, who hold the rank of Midshipman (Supplementary List)— |
|
| 1st year..................................................... | 5,335 |
| 2nd year.................................................... | 5,880 |
References to Navy or Army in respect of any period before 9 February 1976.
5. In the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (Annual Rates of Pay) Regulations as amended by these Regulations, references to the Navy and to the Army shall, in respect of any period before 9 February 1976, be read respectively as references to the Naval Forces and to the Military Forces.