Statutory Rules

1980 No. 341

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE FORCE RETIREMENT
AND DEATH BENEFITS ACT 19731

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973.

 Dated this twenty-seventh day of November 1980.

 ZELMAN COWEN

 Governor-General

 By His Excellency’s Command,

D. J. KILLEN

Minister of State for Defence

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AMENDMENTS OF THE DEFENCE FORCE RETIREMENT AND
DEATH BENEFITS (ANNUAL RATES OF PAY) REGULATIONS2

 Annual pay applicable to a member

 1. Regulation 4 of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (Annual Rates of Pay) Regulations is amended—

 (a) by inserting after “sub-regulations” in sub-regulation (3) “(3A),”; and

 (b) by inserting after sub-regulation (3) the following sub-regulation:

 “(3A) Where a member belongs to a class of members to whom a Married Trainee’s Allowance is payable in pursuance of Determination 0114, Married Trainee’s Allowance, under section 58B of the Defence Act 1903, the annual pay applicable on a particular day to that member is the amount ascertained by adding an amount equal to the annual rate of that allowance, applicable on that day, to an amount equal to the annual pay applicable on that day to that member under sub-regulation (3).”.

 Application—regulation 1

 2. The Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (Annual Rates of Pay) Regulations as amended by regulation 1 apply in relation to service by a member of the Defence Force after 13 June 1979.

 Annual pay applicable to a member to whom Married Trainee’s Allowance is payable—7 or 8 June 1979 to 13 June 1979

3. (1) The annual pay applicable on any day during the prescribed period to a member to whom a Married Trainee’s Allowance is payable in respect of that day in pursuance of Determination 0114, Married Trainee’s Allowance, under section 58B of the Defence Act 1903, is an amount ascertained by adding an amount equal to the annual rate applicable on that day of that allowance to the annual pay applicable on that day to that member under sub-regulation 4 (8) or 4 (9) of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (Annual Rates of Pay) Regulations as in force on that day.

 (2) In sub-regulation (1), “prescribed period” means—

 (a) in relation to a member of the Navy or of the Army—the period that commenced on 8 June 1979 and ended on 13 June 1979; and

 (b) in relation to a member of the Air Force—the period that commenced on 7 June 1979 and ended on 13 June 1979.

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 4 December 1980.

2. Statutory Rules 1979 No. 90 as amended by Statutory Rules 1979 Nos. 206 and 255.