STATUTORY RULES.
1959. No. 104
REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE FORCES RETIREMENT
BENEFITS ACT 1948-1959.*
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 1948-1959.
Dated this 14th day of December, 1959.
W.J. SLIM
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
(SGD.) HAROLD HOLT
Treasurer.
AMENDMENTS OF THE DEFENCE FORCES RETIREMENT BENEFITS REGULATIONS.†
1. Regulation 21 of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—
Retiring ages and pensions for certain classes of members.
“21.—(1.) For the purposes of the definition of ‘retiring age for the rank held’ in sub-section (1.) of section 4 of the Act, the age for compulsory retirement of a member who—
(a) is a member of a branch or service specified in column 1 of the Third Schedule to these Regulations; and
(b) holds a rank specified opposite to that branch or service in column 2 of that Schedule,
is the age specified opposite to that rank in column 3 of that Schedule.
“(2.) The pension or benefit payable to or in respect of a member of the Permanent Naval Forces who holds, on the date of commencement of this regulation, the rank of Chief Inspector in the Naval Ordinance Design and Inspection Branch and who continues to hold that rank in that branch until he ceases to be a member is the pension or benefit to which the member would have been entitled under the Act if he had held the rank of Captain (Special Rate) on ceasing to be a member.”.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 14th December, 1959.
† Statutory Rules 1949, No. 60, as amended by Statutory Rules 1950. No. 14; 1951, No. 111; 1954, Nos. 4 and 33; and 1955, Nos. 14 and 45.
10239/59.—PRICE 3D. 9/7.12.1959.
Third Schedule.
2. After the Second Schedule to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Regulations the following Schedule is added:—
THIRD SCHEDULE.
Regulation 21.
Column 1. | Column 2. | Column 3. |
Branch or Service. | Rank. | Retiring Age. |
Permanent Naval Forces— |
|
|
General List (Seaman Specialization)...... | Vice-Admiral | 60 years |
Rear-Admiral | 57 years | |
Naval Ordnance Design and Inspection Branch | Chief Inspector | 57 years |
Naval Dockyard Police Branch.......... | Superintendent | 55 years |
Sub-Inspector | 55 years | |
Any Branch, other than the Naval Dockyard Police Branch | A rank other than a rank of an officer | 50 years |
Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service... | Chief Officer | 55 years |
First Officer | 50 years | |
Second Officer | 50 years | |
Third Officer | 50 years | |
Other Ranks | 50 years | |
Permanent Military Forces— |
|
|
| Colonel | 57 years |
Printing and Stationery Service.......... | Lieutenant-Colonel | 55 years |
Major | 55 years | |
| Captain | 55 years |
| Major-General | 60 years |
| Brigadier | 57 years |
| Colonel | 57 years |
Army Canteens Service............... | Lieutenant-Colonel | 55 years |
Major | 55 years | |
| Captain | 55 years |
| Lieutenant | 55 years |
| Second Lieutenant | 55 years |
| Colonel | 55 years |
| Lieutenant-Colonel | 55 years |
Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps | Major | 55 years |
| Captain | 55 years |
| Lieutenant | 55 years |
| Colonel | 55 years |
Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps | Lieutenant-Colonel | 55 years |
Major | 55 years | |
Captain | 50 years | |
| Lieutenant | 50 years |
| Other ranks | 50 years |
Permanent Air Force— |
|
|
| Air Marshal | 60 years |
| Air Vice-Marshal | 57 years |
| Air Commodore | 55 years |
General Duties Branch................ | Group Captain | 55 years |
| Wing Commander | 50 years |
| Squadron Leader | 47 years |
| Flight Lieutenant | 45 years |
| Air Vice-Marshal | 60 years |
| Group Captain | 57 years |
| Wing Commander | 55 years |
Any Branch, other than the General Duties Branch | Squadron Leader | 55 years |
Flight Lieutenant | 55 years | |
Principal Air Chaplain | 58 years | |
| Chaplain First Class | 57 years |
| Chaplain Second Class | 55 years |
| Chaplain Third Class | 55 years |
| Chaplain Fourth Class | 55 years |
THIRD SCHEDULE—continued.
Column 1. | Column 2. | Column 3. |
Branch or Service. | Rank. | Retiring Age. |
Permanent Air Force—continued. |
|
|
| Group Officer | 55 years |
| Wing Officer | 55 years |
Women’s Royal Australian Air Force...... | Squadron Officer | 50 years |
Flight Officer | 50 years | |
| Section Officer | 50 years |
| Other ranks | 50 years |
(SGD.) HAROLD HOLT
By Authority: A. J. ARTHUR, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.