Part 3ARetirement on completion of limited tenure appointment

Part 3A—Retirement on completion of limited tenure appointment

4A. Subject to item 4B, where: (a) a member who is an officer of the Defence Force holds an appointment under section 9 or 9AA of the Defence Act 1903 (in this Part called the relevant appointment); and (b) before the member was appointed to the relevant appointment he was notified in writing by the Minister that he or she would be expected to resign his or her naval, military or air force office immediately after ceasing to hold the relevant appointment; and (c) the member resigns his or her office accordingly; then, for the purposes of the Rules, the member is taken not to have resigned but to have retired on completion of a limited tenure appointment. 4B. Item 4A does not apply to an officer who, on or before the completion by him or her of the period of a relevant appointment to which paragraph 4A(b) applies is offered a further relevant appointment to which that paragraph applies and declines that further appointment. 4C. In paragraph 4A(c), a reference to a member who resigns his or her office includes a reference to a member who ceases to render continuous full‑time service on being transferred to the Reserves.