Statutory Rules

1979 No. 130

REGULATIONS UNDER THE AIR FORCE ACT 19231

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 this fourth day of July 1979.

 ZELMAN COWEN

 Governor-General

 By His Excellency’s Command,

J. E. McLEAY

Minister of State for Administrative Services for and on
behalf of the Minister of State for Defence

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AMENDMENTS OF THE AIR FORCE REGULATIONS2

1 Pay in lieu of recreation leave on termination of service

  Regulation 534A of the Air Force Regulations is amended–

 (a) by omitting from sub-regulation (4) “member’s dependants of an amount equal to” and substituting “dependant or dependants, or the legal personal representative, of the member of an amount equal to, or amounts equal in the aggregate to,”; and

 (b) by inserting after sub-regulation (4) the following sub-regulation:

 “(5) Where, upon the death of a member, an amount payable under sub-regulation (4) would be bona vacantia, that sub-regulation does not authorize that amount to be paid in relation to the member.”.

2 Application

  The Air Force Regulations as amended by these Regulations apply in relation to a member who died after 31 December 1972 or who, under sub-regulation 534A (4) of the Air Force Regulations, is presumed to have died after that date.

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 10 July 1979.

2. Statutory Rules 1927 No. 161 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1979 No. 19 and see also Statutory Rules 1979 Nos. 19, 31, 49, 50 and 63.