Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Amendment Act 1981 No. 144 of 1981 - SECT 9

9. (1) Regulation 4 of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (Annual
Rates of Pay) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the
following sub-regulation:

''(7) A reference in this regulation to the annual rate of salary of a member
on a day under the Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations shall be construed as
a reference to the amount that would be the annual rate of salary of the
member on that day under those Regulations if the expression 'rank', when used
in those Regulations, had the meaning given to that expression by sub-section
3 (1) of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973 and did not
have the meaning given to that expression by sub-regulation 4 (3) of those
Regulations.''.

(2) The amendment made by sub-section (1) applies in relation to 14 May 1981
and all subsequent days.

(3) Nothing in this section prevents the amendment or repeal by a regulation
under the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973 of the
regulation amended by sub-section (1) as so amended.
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