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Air Force Regulations2 (Amendment)
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Air Force Act 1923.
Dated 23 September 1982.
N. M. STEPHEN
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
IAN SINCLAIR
Minister of State for Defence
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Preference to former members of expeditionary forces
1. Regulation 60 of the Air Force Regulations is repealed.
2. Regulations 61 to 65 (inclusive) of the Air Force Regulations are repealed and the following regulation is substituted:
Promotion of officers
“65. (1) Subject to sub-regulations (3) and (4), the Chief of the Air Staff may determine by instrument in writing that—
(a) all officers; or
(b) officers included in a specified class of officers,
are not eligible for promotion—
(c) to specified ranks;
(d) in specified parts of the Air Force; or
(e) of a specified kind,
unless they have served for a specified period—
(f) in a specified rank; or
(g) in a specified rank in a specified part of the Air Force.
“(2) In sub-regulation (1) ‘specified’ means specified in the instrument referred to in that sub-regulation.
“(3) In making a determination under sub-regulation (1), the Chief of the Air Staff shall have regard to—
(a) the time required for officers to gain sufficient skill, experience or other qualification to be suitable for promotion;
(b) the career advancement needs of officers; and
(c) the need to ensure the availability of an adequate supply of officers suitable for promotion to particular ranks or in particular parts of the Air Force.
“(4) The Chief of the Air Staff may, having regard to the factors specified in paragraphs (3) (a), (b) and (c), exempt a particular officer from compliance with a determination under sub-regulation (1).”.
NOTES
1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 1 October 1982.
2. Statutory Rules 1927 No. 161 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1982 No. 3 and see also Statutory Rules 1982 Nos. 3, 6, 37, 51, 104, 109, 174, 182, 203 and 221.