STATUTORY RULES
1972 No. 34
REGULATION UNDER THE DEFENCE FORCES RETIREMENT BENEFITS ACT 1948-1971.*
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1971.
Dated this ninth day of March, 1972.
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
B. M. SNEDDEN
Treasurer.
Amendments of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Regulations†
Prescribed number applicable to contributor
Regulation 8C of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (3.) the words “or cease to be members on or after the first day of January, 1971” and inserting in their stead the words “to be members on or after the first day of January, 1971, and before the twenty-seventh day of August, 1971”; and
(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:—
“(4.) For the purposes of sub-section (2.) of section 58a of the Act—
(a) the number twenty-two is specified as the number applicable to male members; and
(b) the number nineteen is specified as the number applicable to female members,
who ceased to be members on or after the twenty-seventh day of August, 1971, and before the first day of January, 1972.
“(5.) For the purposes of sub-section (2.) of section 58a of the Act, the number twenty-two is specified as the number applicable to male or female members who ceased or cease to be members on or after the first day of January, 1972.”.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1972.
† Statutory Rules 1949, No. 60, as amended by Statutory Rules 1950, No. 14; 1951, No. 111; 1954, Nos. 4 and 33; 1955, Nos. 14 and 45; 1956, No. 25; 1959, No. 104; 1964, Nos. 84, 114 and 162; 1965, Nos. 6, 37 and 161; 1966, Nos. 39, 97 and 134; 1967, No. 26; 1968, No. 80; 1969, Nos. 8, 48 and 130; 1970, Nos. 55 and 161; and 1971, Nos. 66, 71, 74 and 127.
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