STATUTORY RULES

1966 No. 150

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE AIR FORCE ACT 1923-1965.*

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 Air Force Act 1923-1965.

Dated this twenty-sixth day of October, 1966.

CASEY

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(Sgd) PETER HOWSON

Minister of State for Air.

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Amendments of the Air Force Regulations†

Retiring ages for officers.

1. Regulation 88 of the Air Force Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting in sub-regulation (1.), after the word “than”, the words “a member holding the appointment of Principal Air Chaplain or”; and

(b) by omitting from the table in that sub-regulation the words and figures—

2. After regulation 88 of the Air Force Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Retirement of Principal Air Chaplain.

“88a.—(1.) The age for compulsory retirement of a member holding the appointment of Principal Air Chaplain is 65 years.

“(2.) Notwithstanding the last preceding sub-regulation, a member of the Permanent Air Force who holds the appointment of Principal Air Chaplain is not entitled to continue to serve in the Permanent Air Force after the day on which he attains the age of 58 years or, if the Governor-General has, under the next succeeding sub-regulation, extended his period of service in the Permanent Air Force for a period after he attains that age, after the day on which that extended period expires, whichever is the later day.

“(3.) The Governor-General may, in a special case, extend the period of service in the Permanent Air Force of a member of that force holding the appointment of Principal Air Chaplain for a period, not exceeding 2 years, after he attains the age of 58 years.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1966

† Statutory Rules 1927, No. 161, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Air Force Regulation, see footnote † to Statutory Rules 1966, No. 4, and see also Statutory Rules 1966, Nos. 4 and 30.

4294/66.—Price 5c (6d.) 14/17.10.1966.

Application.

3. Upon the commencement of these Regulations, a member of the Air Force Reserve who attained the age for his compulsory retirement after the first day of March, 1966, and before the commencement of these Regulations and held the appointment of Principal Air Chaplain immediately before attaining that age shall, by force of this regulation, be deemed to be, and from and including that date to and including the day immediately before the commencement of these Regulations, to have continued to be, for all purposes, a member of that Reserve and to hold, and so to have held, the appointment of Principal Air Chaplain as if the amendments of the Air Force Regulations effected by these Regulations had come into force on the first day of March, 1966.

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By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra