Commonwealth legislation

Military Forces (Women's Services) Regulations (Repeal)

RepealedCTH

This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.

Jurisdiction

Commonwealth

Act Number

124 of 1951

Collection

legislative instrument

Plain English Summary

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This regulation cleans up old defence laws by formally removing the Military Forces (Women's Services) Regulations created during World War II.

What it does

Repeals wartime rules: It cancels several statutory rules made between 1943 and 1946 that established separate regulations for women's military services (covering enlistment, service conditions, and discharge for groups like the Australian Women's Army Service).
Simplifies the law: By removing these outdated regulations that were no longer needed after the war ended and the separate women's services were wound down, it tidies up Australia's defence legislation.

Who it affects This is primarily an administrative cleanup. By 1951, the separate women's services had largely been disbanded or integrated into the regular forces. This repeal formally removes the legal framework that had governed women's participation in the armed forces during and immediately after WWII, ensuring the statute books don't retain obsolete military rules.

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Military Forces (Women's Services) Regulations (Repeal)

STATUTORY RULES

No. 124.

REGULATION UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1951.*

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Defence Act 1903-1951.

Dated this nineteenth day of October, 1951.

J. NORTHCOTT

Administrator.

By His Excellency's Command,

JOS. FRANCIS

View image in the official sourceMinister of State for the Army.

Repeal of the Military Forces (Women’s Services) Regulations.

Statutory Rules 1943, Nos. 68 and 243; Statutory Rules 1944, Nos. 22, 119 and 185; Statutory Rules 1945, No. 86; and Statutory Rules 1946, No. 7, are repealed.

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* Notified In the Commonwealth Gazette on 1st November, 1951.

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By Authority: L. F. JOHNSTON, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

4482.—Price 3d.

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