Statutory Rules

1974 No. 1

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1970, THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910-1971 AND THE AIR FORCE ACT 1923-1965.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Defence Act 1903-1970, the Naval Defence Act 1910-1971 and the Air Force Act 1923-1965.

Dated this eleventh day of January, 1974.

PAUL HASLUCK

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

LANCE BARNARD

Minister of State for Defence.

Amendments of the Defence Force (Bounties and Gratuities) Regulations†

Interpretation.

1. Regulation 10 of the Defence Force (Bounties and Gratuities) Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting after sub-regulation (1) the following sub-regulation:—

“(2a) For the purposes of the definition of ‘eligible service’ in sub-regulation (1), a person shall be deemed to have been a contributor under the previous Act in respect of a period—

(a) when he was not, by reason only of the operation of subsection 23 (2) of the previous Act as in force from time to time before 31 January 1969, a contributor under that Act; and

(b) which is continuous with a period of continuous full-time service rendered by the member in respect of which he was a contributor under that Act.”; and

(b) by omitting from the definition of “eligible service” in sub-regulation (1) the words “sub-section 82 (3)” and substituting the words “sub-section 83 (3)”.

Application.

2. The amendments effected by these Regulations shall apply in respect of the entitlement of a person to a gratuity in accordance with Part III of the Defence Force (Bounties and Gratuities) Regulations as if those last-mentioned Regulations as amended by these Regulations had come into operation on 1 October 1972.

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 15 January 1974.

† Statutory Rules 1973, No. 110, as amended by Statutory Rules 1973, Nos. 169 and 272.