{"id":"C1956L00131","name":"Naval and Air Civilian Staff Regulations","slug":"c1956l00131","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"131 of 1956","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":320738,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1956L00131-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-08","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Naval and Air Civilian Staff Regulations","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\nmeta-generator: Aspose.Words for .NET 22.10.0\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\nSTATUTORY RULES.\n\n1956. No. 131.\n\n \n\nREGULATION UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1956, THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910-1952 AND THE AIR FORCE ACT 1923-1956.*\n\nI, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council hereby make the following Regulation under the Defence Act 1903-1956, the Naval Defence Act 1910-1952, and the Air Force Act 1923-1956.\n\nDated this 21st day of December, 1956.\n\nW. J. SLIM\n\nGovernor-General.\n\nBy His Excellency’s Command,\n\n![Signature of P.A. McBride](image.001.jpeg)\n\nMinister of State for Defence.\n\n \n\nRepeal of the Naval and Air Civilian Staff Regulations.\n\nRepeal.\n\nThe Naval and Air Civilian Staff Regulations (being Statutory Rules 1942, No. 119) are repealed.\n\n \n\n* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1956.\n\n \n\nBy Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.\n\n907/56.—Price 3d. 9/29.2.1956.\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1381},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"This instrument eliminates the entire regulatory framework established in 1942. Rather than amending or updating the rules for civilian staff, it removes them completely, shifting the scope from 'regulating naval and air civilian staff' to simply 'abolishing those regulations'."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative provision containing only a repeal clause","No definitions or interpretation section","No conditional logic, exceptions, or procedural steps","No cross-references beyond citing the repealed instrument"],"plain_english_summary":"**What this does:** This regulation completely scraps the old \"Naval and Air Civilian Staff Regulations\" from 1942.\n\n**Who it affects:** Civilian employees working for the Navy and Air Force, and the defence departments that employed them.\n\n**Why it matters:** It wipes the slate clean by removing the previous rules that governed how civilian staff were hired, paid, and managed in Australia’s naval and air defence forces. This suggests those old rules were either moved into other laws, consolidated, or became unnecessary.\n\n**Key takeaway:** This is a deletion notice — the 1942 regulations no longer exist from December 1956 onwards."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/c1956l00131","history":"/api/acts/c1956l00131/history","analysis":"/api/acts/c1956l00131/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/c1956l00131/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/c1956l00131/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/c1956l00131/documents"}}