Statutory Rules
1977 No. 13
REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903.*
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 Act 1903.
Dated this eleventh day of February, 1977.
JOHN R. KERR
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
D. J. KILLEN
Minister of State for Defence
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Amendments of the Military Financial Regulations†
Repeal of regulations 12bb and 137.
1. Regulations 12bb and 137 of the Military Financial Regulations are repealed.
Special allowance— officers appointed from rank of Private.
2. (1) Where a member of the Army, being a member who held the rank of Private and to whom pay level 6 was the pay level appropriate under the Military Financial Regulations, was, with effect from the commencement of the prescribed period, appointed to be an officer of the Army and the amount of salary paid to him in respect of his service during that period is less than the amount of salary that would have been payable to him in respect of that service had the rate of salary payable to him in respect of that service been the rate of salary payable to him immediately before the commencement of that period, he is entitled to be paid in respect of that service an additional amount equal to the difference between those 2 first-mentioned amounts.
(2) In this regulation, “ prescribed period ” means the period from and including 14 December 1974 to and including 21 February 1975.
* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 16 February 1977.
† Statutory Rules 1966, No. 35 as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Military Financial Regulations see footnote † to Statutory Rules 1977, No. 3 and see also Statutory Rules 1977, No. 3.