Statutory Rules
1973 No. 204
REGULATION UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1970.*
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Defence Act 1903-1970.
Dated this ninth day of October, 1973.
PAUL HASLUCK
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
R. BISHOP
Minister of State for the Army.
APPLICATION OF REGULATIONS 12 AND 12f OF THE MILITARY FINANCIAL REGULATIONS†
Application of regulations 12 and 12f of the Military Financial Regulations.
The Military Financial Regulations in their application to members of the Permanent Military Forces during the period that commenced on 17 December 1971 and ended on 8 February 1973 shall be deemed to have applied—
(a) as if, for paragraphs (b) and (c) of sub-regulation (4) of regulation 12, there had been substituted the following paragraphs:—
“(b) held, immediately before he was commissioned as an officer in the Military Forces, the rank of—
(i) Sergeant or a higher rank in the Military Forces;
(ii) Petty Officer or a higher rank in the Naval Forces; or
(iii) Sergeant or a higher rank in the Air Force; and
(c) is not a graduate of an Officer Cadet School,”;
(b) as if, for the words “who is included on the Administrative and Technical Officers List of a Corps” in sub-regulation (4) of regulation 12f, there had been substituted the following words:—
“who—
(a) held, immediately before he was commissioned as an officer in the Military Forces, the rank of—
(i) Sergeant or a higher rank in the Military Forces;
(ii) Petty Officer or a higher rank in the Naval Forces; or
(iii) Sergeants or a higher rank in the Air Force; and
(b) is not a graduate of an Officer Cadet School”;
* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 18 October 1973.
† Statutory Rules 1960, No. 35, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Military Financial Regulations see footnote † to Statutory Rules 1973, No, 88, and see also Statutory Rules 1973, Nos. 88, 160 and 171. See also the Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations (Statutory Rules 1973, No. 100, as amended by Statutory Rules 1973, Nos. 132, 201 and 203).
(c) as if, for paragraphs (a) and (b) of sub-regulation (5) of regulation 12f, there had been substituted the following paragraph:—
“(a) an officer referred to in sub-regulation (4) who was commissioned as an officer in the Military Forces on or after 17 December 1971; and”;
(d) as if there had been inserted in paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (5) of regulation 12f, after the words “an officer” the words “in the Military Forces”; and
(e) as if, from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (7) of regulation 12f, the words “held, immediately before he was commissioned as an officer, the rank of Sergeant or a higher rank” were omitted and there had been substituted the words “holds the rank of Lieutenant or Captain”.