1Defence Forces Retirement Benefits (Daily Rates of Pay) Regulations

STATUTORY RULES

1971 No. 92

Image unavailable in extracted textREGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE FORCES RETIREMENT BENEFITS ACT 1948-1971.*

WHEREAS it is provided by sub-section (1.) of section 88 of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1971 that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with that Act, prescribing all matters which by that Act are required or permitted to be prescribed, or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to that Act:

AND WHEREAS by sub-section (2.) of that section it is provided that where the pay of any class of members is increased or reduced, regulations for the purpose of the definition of “daily rate of pay” in sub-section (1.) of section 4 of that Act in relation to members included within that class made after the date on and from which the increase or reduction took effect may be expressed to have taken effect from and including that date:

AND WHEREAS the pay of members the descriptions applicable to whom are referred to in the Third Schedule to these Regulations has been increased, in the case of members of the Naval Forces or the Air Force, on and from the seventeenth day of December, 1970, and, in the case of members of the Military Forces, on and from the eighteenth day of December, 1970:

AND WHEREAS the pay of certain female members was increased or further increased—

(a) in the case of the female members referred to in sub-regulation (4.) of regulation 13 of these Regulations—on and from the first day of October, 1969;

(b) in the case of the female members referred to in sub-regulation (4.) of regulation 14 of these Regulations—on and from the nineteenth day of December, 1969;

(c) in the case of the female members referred to in sub-regulation (5.) of regulation 15 of these Regulations—on and from the first day of January, 1970;

(d) in the case of the female members of the Naval Forces or Military Forces referred to in sub-regulation (5.) of regulation 16 of these Regulations—on and from the eleventh day of September, 1970; and

(e) in the case of the female members of the Air Force referred to in sub-regulation (5.) of regulation 16 of these Regulations—on and from the tenth day of September, 1970:

AND WHEREAS the pay of certain apprentice tradesmen in the Military Forces referred to in regulation 17 of these Regulations was increased on and from the eighth day of December, 1970:

AND WHEREAS the pay of members, other than members referred to in sub-regulation (2.) of regulation 11 of these Regulations, was increased or further increased on and from the first day of January, 1971:

NOW THEREFORE 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 Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1971 for the purpose of the definition of “daily rates of pay” in sub-section (1.) of section 4 of that Act.