Defence Forces Retirement Benefits (Daily Rates of Pay) Regulations (Amendment)

STATUTORY RULES

1970 No.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE FORCES RETIREMENT BENEFITS ACT 1948–1970.*

WHEREAS by sub-section (1.) of section 88 of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948–1970 it is provided that the Governor-General may make Regulations, not inconsistent with that Act, prescribing all matters which by that Act are required or permitted to be prescribed, or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to that Act:

AND WHEREAS by sub-section (2.) of that section it is provided that where the pay of any class of members is increased or reduced, regulations for the purposes of the definition of “daily rate of pay” in sub-section (1.) of section 4 of that Act in relation to members included within that class made after the date on and from which the increase or reduction took, effect may be expressed to have taken effect from and including that date:

AND WHEREAS the pay of members the descriptions applicable to whom are referred to in the items in the First Schedule to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits (Daily Rates of Pay) Regulations as amended by these Regulations, other than items 1, 2, 3, 4, 18 to 33 (inclusive), 46, 48 and 49, has been increased, in the case of members of the Naval Forces or the Military Forces, on and from the eleventh day of September, 1970, and, in the case of members of the Air Force, on and from the tenth day of September, 1970:

AND WHEREAS the pay of members the descriptions applicable to whom are referred to in items 30 and 31 in the First Schedule to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits (Daily Rates of Pay) Regulations as amended by these Regulations—

AND WHEREAS the pay of members the descriptions applicable to whom are referred to in items 32 and 33 in the First Schedule to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits (Daily Rates of Pay) Regulations as amended by these Regulations—

NOW THEREFORE 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 Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948–1970 for the purpose of the definition of “daily rates of pay” in subsection (1.) of section 4 of that Act.

Dated this twenty-sixth day of November, 1970.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General,

By His Excellency’s Command,

Treasurer.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 3 December 1970.

23671/70—Price 10c 10/4.11.1970

Amendments of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits (Daily Rates of Pay) Regulations*

Maximum daily rates of active pay of members.

1. Regulation 2 of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits (Daily Rates of Pay) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the word “active” (first occurring).

First Schedule.

2.—(1.) The First Schedule to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits (Daily Rates of Pay) Regulations is amended by omitting items 5 to 17 (inclusive) of Part I. and inserting in their stead the following items:—

(2.) The First Schedule to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits (Daily Rates of Pay) Regulations is amended by omitting Parts III., IV., V., VI. and VII. and inserting in their stead the following Parts:—

“Part III.

Male Medical and Dental Officers

* Statutory Rules 1963, No. 37. as amended by Statutory Rules 1963, Nos. 87 and 93; 1964. Nos. 79, 113 and 163; 1965, Nos. 20,  38, 130 and 160; 1966, Nos. 37, 42 and 133; 1967, Nos. 25 and 119; 1968, Nos. 17, 81, 94, 105 and 163; 1969, Nos. 9, 47, 129 and 149; and 1970, Nos. 15 and 54.

“Part IV.

Female Officers, other than Medical Officers

“Part V.

Female Medical Officers

“Part VI.

Male Members, other than Officers

“Part VII.

Female Members, other than Officers

3. The Second and Third Schedules to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits (Daily Rates of Pay) Regulations are repealed and the following Schedules inserted in their stead:—

“SECOND SCHEDULE Regulation 2 (1.) (c).

Male Members included in a Group

Part 1.—Groups 1 to 8 (inclusive)

Part II.—Groups 9 to 16 (inclusive)

Part III.—Groups 17 to 24 (inclusive)

Part IV.—Groups 25 to 30 (inclusive)

THIRD SCHEDULE Regulation 2 (1.) (d).

Female Members included in a Group

Part I.—Groups 1 to 8 (inclusive)

Part II.—Groups 9 to 16 (inclusive)

Part III.—Groups 17 to 24 (inclusive)

Part IV.—Groups 25 to 30 (inclusive)

Transitional.

4.—(1.) In this regulation—

(2.) Notwithstanding regulation 2 of the Regulations, for the purpose of the definition of “daily rate of pay” in sub-section (1.) of section 4 of the Act, the maximum daily rate of active pay of a male medical or dental officer in respect of the eighteenth day of December, 1969, is—

(3.) Notwithstanding regulation 2 of the Regulations, for the purpose of the definition of “daily rate of pay” in sub-section (1.) of section 4 of the Act, the maximum daily rate of active pay of a male medical or dental officer in respect of a day in the prescribed period is—

(4.) For the purpose of the last preceding sub-regulation, the prescribed period is—

Application.

5.—(1.) Regulations 2 and 3 of these Regulations have effect and shall be deemed to have taken effect—

(2.) Sub-regulations (1.) and (2.) of regulation 4 of these Regulations have effect and shall be deemed to have taken effect in relation to members of the Naval Forces, the Military Forces and the Air Force the descriptions applicable to whom are referred to in items 30, 31, 32 and 33 in the First Schedule to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits (Daily Rates of Pay) Regulations as amended by these Regulations from and including the eighteenth day of December, 1969.

(3.) Sub-regulations (3.) and (4.) of regulation 4 of these Regulations have effect and shall be deemed to have taken effect in relation to members of the Naval Forces, the Military Forces and the Air Force the descriptions applicable to whom are referred to in items 32 and 33 in the First Schedule to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits (Daily Rates of Pay) Regulations as amended by these Regulations from and including the nineteenth day of December, 1969.

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