STATUTORY RULES
1971 No.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1970.*
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 Act 1903-1970.
Dated this eighteenth day of January 1971.
Paul Hasluck
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Andrew Peacock
Minister of State for the Army.
Amendments of the Military Financial Regulations†
Rates of pay— apprentices.
1.—(1.) Regulation 12c of the Military Financial Regulations is amended by omitting the table in sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following table:—
Classification, stage of training and age | Rate of pay | Rate of deferred pay | Rate of net pay |
| $ | $ | $ |
| Rate per week | Rate per week | Rate per week |
Apprentice Tradesman— |
|
|
|
First year of training................ | 13.65 | 0.25 | 13.40 |
Second year of training.............. | 17.50 | 0.50 | 17.00 |
Third year of training............... | 20.87 | 0.50 | 30.37 |
Fourth year of training.............. | 39.06 | .. | 39.06 |
| Rate per day | Rate per day | Rate per day |
Apprentice Musician— |
|
|
|
First year of training— |
|
|
|
Under 16 years of age............... | 1.71 | .. | 1.71 |
At 16 years of age................. | 2.31 | 0.50 | 1.81 |
At 17 years of age or over............ | 4.13 | 1.65 | 2.48 |
Second year of training— |
|
|
|
Under 16 years of age............... | 1.71 | .. | 1.71 |
At 16 years of age................. | 2.31 | 0.18 | 2.13 |
At 17 years of age or over............ | 4.13 | 1.29 | 2.84 |
(2.) Regulation 12c of the Military Financial Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (2.).
Necessaries allowance— trade apprentices.
2. Regulation 175 of the Military Financial Regulations is repealed.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1971.
† Statutory Rules 1966, No. 35. as amended by Statutory Rules 1966, Nos. 58, 87, 129 and 151; 1967, Nos. 24, 34, 111, 145 and 163; 1968, Nos. 49, 50, 62, 63, 111 and 154; 1969, Nos. 6, 15, 53, 67, 97, 112, 118, 131, 132 and 169; and 1970, Nos. 5, 46, 76, 102, 133, 157.
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Transitional— apprentices.
3.—(1.) Where the amount of pay that would have been payable to an apprentice tradesman to whom this sub-regulation applies in respect of his service during the relevant period if the amendments of the Military Financial Regulations effected by regulations 1 and 2 of these Regulations had come into operation on the twenty-fifth day of September, 1970, exceeds the sum of the amounts paid or payable to the apprentice tradesman, in respect of his service during that period, by way of pay and necessaries allowance under regulation 175 of the Military Financial Regulations as in force before the commencement of these Regulations, the apprentice tradesman is, by force of this sub-regulation, entitled to be paid an amount equal to the excess.
(2.) Where an apprentice musician was under the age of eighteen years during the relevant period or a part of the relevant period, the rates of pay specified in regulation 12c of the Military Financial Regulations as amended by these Regulations apply to and in relation to his service during the relevant period or that part of the relevant period, as the case may be.
(3.) Sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation does not affect the operation of sub-regulation (3,) of regulation 12C of the Military Financial Regulations in relation to the pay of an apprentice tradesman in respect of the relevant period.
(4.) Sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation applies to an apprentice tradesman who was, during the relevant period, in the first, second or third year of his apprenticeship training.
(5.) In this regulation, “the relevant period” is the period from and, including the twenty-fifth day of September, 1970, to and including the day immediately before the commencement of these Regulations.
Special rates or pay for certain apprentice tradesman and apprentice musicians.
4. The amendments of the Military Financial Regulations effected by regulation 1 of these Regulations do not apply to or in relation to—
(a) an apprentice tradesman who was in the fourth year of his apprentice training immediately before the commencement of these Regulations; or
(b) an apprentice musician who attained the age of eighteen years before the commencement of these Regulations,
and regulation 12c of the Military Financial Regulations as in force immediately before the date of commencement of these Regulations continues to apply to and in relation to such an apprentice tradesman or apprentice musician in respect of his service as an apprentice tradesman or apprentice musician on and after that date.
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