22Prior service of female officers

22 Prior service of female officers (1) For the purposes of determining under section 14 of the Act the seniority of members of the Navy in their respective ranks, a female officer who holds substantively a rank specified in Column 2 of the table in this subregulation in an item in that table and who, for any period at any time before the commencement of this regulation, held substantively a rank specified in Column 3 or 4 of that table in that item, shall be deemed to have held substantively during the whole of that period the rank specified in Column 2 of that table in that item: | Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 | | -------- | --------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Item | Ranks | Former ranks in Royal Australian Naval Nursing Service | Former ranks in Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service or Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service Reserve | | 1 | Captain | | CaptainSuperintendent | | 2 | Commander | Matron | Chief Officer | | 3 | Lieutenant-Commander | Superintending Sister | First Officer | | 4 | Lieutenant | Senior Sister | Second Officer | | 5 | Sub-Lieutenant | Sister | Third Officer | | 6 | Acting Sub-Lieutenant | | Third Officer (on probation) | (2) For the purposes of determining under section 14 of the Act the seniority of members of the Navy in their respective ranks, a female officer who for any period at any time before the commencement of this regulation held temporarily a rank specified in Column 3 or 4 of the table in subregulation (1) in an item in that table shall be deemed to have held temporarily during the whole of that period the rank specified in Column 2 of that table in that item.