Naval Forces Regulations 1935
102Retiring age of officers
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102 Retiring age of officers
(1) For the purposes of section 17 of the Act, the age for the compulsory retirement of a PNF officer who was appointed to the PNF before 1 January 1992 is the age set out in the following table in relation to the officer’s rank, opposite the name of the list on which, or branch in which, the officer is or was included before 1 November 1992:
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