STATUTORY RULES
1972 No.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910-1971.*
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Naval Defence Act 1910-1971.
Dated this fifth day of April, 1972.
Paul Hasluck
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
MALCOLM MACKAY
Minister of State for the Navy.
Amendments of the Naval Forces Regulations†
Engagements.
1. Regulation 81 of the Naval Forces Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) the figures and word “50 years” and inserting in their stead the figures and word “55 years”.
Retiring age of seaman.
2. Regulation 103 of the Naval Forces Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—
“103. For the purposes of section 17 of the Act, the age for the compulsory retirement of a seaman of the Permanent Naval Forces is fifty-five years.”.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1972.
† Statutory Rules 1935, No. 133, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Naval Forces Regulations see footnote † to Statutory Rules 1971, No. 16, and see also Statutory Rules 1971, No. 16 and 1972, No. .
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