Statutory Rules
1974 No. 74
REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910-1973.*
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Naval Defence Act 1910-1973.
Dated this fifteenth day of May, 1974.
PAUL HASLUCK
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
R. BISHOP
Minister of State for Repatriation for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence.
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Amendments of the Naval Financial Regulations†
Commencement.
1. These Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1 January 1973.
Calculation of periods of service.
2. Regulation 246a of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (2) the words “Subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, where” and substituting the word “Where”; and
(b) by omitting sub-regulation (3).
Conduct of member to be taken into account.
3. Regulation 246b of the Naval Financial Regulations is repealed.
Furlough.
4. Regulation 247 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1) the words “fifteen years’ ” and substituting the words “ten years’ ”; and
* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 21 May 1974.
† Statutory Rules 1956, No, 88, as amended by Statutory Rules 1957, Nos. 27, 32, 68 and 77; 1958, Nos. 25, 45 and 76; 1959, Nos. 66 and 90; 1960, No. 33; 1961, Nos. 5, 12, 24, 33, 45, 78, 90, 96, 130 and 143; 1962, Nos. 10, 19, 22, 32, 86, 96 and 107; 1963, Nos. 12, 18, 54, 61, 72, 88, 94 and 122; 1964, Nos. 5, 15, 16, 50, 51, 60, 90, 101, 104, 130, 139, 167 and 168; 1965, Nos. 46, 70, 74, 122, 140, 157, 175 and 193; 1966, Nos. 31, 33, 103 and 128; 1967, Nos. 21, 40, 56, 107, 109 and 159; 1968, Nos. 70, 77, 78, 99, 104 and 132; 1969, Nos. 5, 41, 55, 113, 119, 138, 177, 201. 208 and 209; 1970, Nos. 12, 36, 38, 60, 61, 134, 158, 180, 203 and 204; 1971, Nos. 1, 2, 46, 56, 57 and 122; 1973, Nos. 21, 35, 83, 100, 147, 182 and 200; and 1973, Nos. 81, 106, 170, 178, 208 and 254. See also the Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations (Statutory Rules 1973, No. 100, as amended by Statutory Rules 1973, Nos. 132, 201, 203, 249 and 269; and 1974, No. 71).
(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (3) the words “fifteen years” and substituting the words “ten years”.
Extended leave or pay in lieu for members not eligible for furlough.
5. Regulation 248 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1) the words “fifteen years’ ” and substituting the words “ten years’ ”;
(b) by omitting paragraphs (b) and (c) of sub-regulation (1) and substituting the following word and paragraph:—
“or (b) where the period of service of the member is not less than eight but less than ten years—three months.”;
(c) by omitting from sub-regulation (4) the words “fifteen years” and substituting the words “ten years”;
(d) by omitting from sub-regulation (4) the words “and that the unfitness is not due to misconduct or to causes within his own control”;
(e) by omitting from sub-regulation (5) the words “the next two succeeding sub-regulations” and substituting the words “sub-regulation (7)”;
(f) by omitting sub-regulation (6);
(g) by omitting from sub-regulation (7) all the words before the word “retrenched” and substituting the words “Where a member is”;
(h) by omitting from sub-regulation (7) the word “or”;
(i) by adding at the end of paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (7) the word “or”;
(j) by omitting paragraph (e) of sub-regulation (7);
(k) by omitting sub-regulation (8); and
(l) by omitting from sub-regulation (9) the words “fifteen years’ ” and substituting the words “ten years’ ”.