Statutory Rules
1976 No. 170
REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE FORCE RETIREMENT AND
DEATH BENEFITS ACT 1973.*
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.
Dated this nineteeth day of August, 1976.
JOHN R. KERR
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
D. J. KILLEN
Minister of State for Defence.
Amendments of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (Annual Rates of Pay) Regulations†
Annual rate of pay in respect of period 1 October 1972 to 8 or 9 February 1973.
1. Regulation 3 of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (Annual Rates of Pay) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (4) the figures “ -1971 ”.
Schedule 2.
2. Schedule 2 to the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (Annual Rates of Pay) Regulations is amended by omitting the words and figures—
“ Rear Admiral ...... | Major-General ......... | Air Vice-Marshal .... | 29,310 |
Commodore ........ | Brigadier ............. | Air Commodore ..... | 24,906 ”, |
and substituting the words and figures— | |||
“ Rear Admiral ...... | Major-General ......... | Air Vice-Marshal .... | 29,508 |
Commodore ........ | Brigadier ............. | Air Commodore ..... | 25,104 ”. |
* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 25 August 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, Nos. 42, 99 and 160.
Repeal of Schedules 3 and 4.
3. Schedules 3 and 4 to the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (Annual Rates of Pay) Regulations are repealed and the following Schedules substituted:—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 |
|
|
| $ |
| Chaplain-General ...... | Principal Air Chaplain ... | 19,678 |
Chaplain with not less than 20 years’ service as a Chaplain | Chaplain, Third Class, with not less than 16 years’ service in that classification | Chaplain with not less than 20 years’ service as a Chaplain | 19,172 |
Chaplain with less than 20 but not less than 12 years’ service as a Chaplain | 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 | 18,163 |
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 | 16,145 |
Chaplain with less than 4 years’ service as a Chaplain | Chaplain, Fourth Class ... | Chaplain with less than 4 years’ service as a Chaplain | 14,008 |
SCHEDULE 4 Sub-regulation 4 (8)
Members undergoing Training
Item no. | Training capacities | Annual pay |
|
| $ |
1 | Normal entry recruits during basic recruit training ................. | 6,442 |
2 | Trainees, including sailors in the Navy who hold the rank of Seaman, who have attained the age of 17 years and who have not completed their category training— |
|
| 1st year ........................................ | 6,715 |
| 2nd and subsequent years ............................ | 7,714 |
3 | Junior trainees, being junior musicians, apprentice musicians and other apprentices— |
|
| 1st year ........................................ | 4,227 |
| 2nd year ........................................ | 4,227 |
| 3rd year ........................................ | 5,765 |
| 4th year ........................................ | 6,764 |
4 | Sailors in the Navy who hold the rank of Seaman and who have not attained the age of 17 years and junior recruits in the Navy | 3,208 |
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 ........................................ | 5,229 |
| 2nd year ........................................ | 5,229 |
| 3rd year ........................................ | 5,826 |
| 4th year ........................................ | 6,422 |
| 5th year ........................................ | 7,019 |
| 6th year ........................................ | 7,617 |
Schedule 4—continued
Item no. | Training capacities | Annual pay |
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 ......................................... | 3,565 |
| 2nd year ........................................ | 4,098 |
| 3rd year ........................................ | 5,229 |
| 4th year ......................................... | 5,229 |
| 5th year ......................................... | 5,826 |
| 6th year ......................................... | 6,422 |
7 | Members, not being members referred to in items 5 and 6, undertaking degree courses— |
|
| with 3 years to graduation ............................. | 5,229 |
| with 2 years to graduation ............................. | 5,826 |
| in final year ...................................... | 6,422 |
3 | Members of the Navy and air cadets not at the Air Force Academy, undertaking diploma courses— |
|
| 1st year ......................................... | 4,098 |
| 2nd year (or matriculation or equivalent entry) ............... | 5,229 |
| 3rd year ........................................ | 5,229 |
| 4th year ......................................... | 5,826 |
9 | Male officer trainees, being officer cadets (Army) and aircrew cadets (Air Force)— |
|
| If not completed degree course ......................... | 5,826 |
| If completed degree course ............................ | 6,422 |
10 | Female officer trainees— |
|
| If not completed degree course ......................... | 4,661 |
| If completed degree course ............................ | 5,138 |
11 | Members of the Navy, other than members referred to in another item of this Schedule, who hold the rank of Midshipman of the Supplementary List— |
|
| 1st year ......................................... | 5,826 |
| 2nd year ........................................ | 6,422 |
Amendments of Statutory Rules 1976, No. 42.
4. Regulation 2 of Statutory Rules 1976, No. 42 is amended by omitting from the table the items relating to sub-regulations 4 (4) and 4 (9).
Application.
5. The Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (Annual Rates of Pay) Regulations as amended by regulations 2 and 3 apply in relation to service by—
(a) members of the Navy and of the Army—on or after 28 May 1976; and
(b) members of the Air Force—on or after 27 May 1976.