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DEFENCE FORCE RE-ORGANIZATION ACT 1975 No. 96 of 1975 - SCHEDULE 1

SCHEDULE 1
Section 61

FORMAL AMENDMENTS OF DEFENCE ACT 1903-1973

1. The following provisions are amended by omitting any number expressed in
words that is used, whether with or without the addition of a letter or
letters, to identify a section of that Act, or of another Act, and
substituting that number expressed in figures:-

Sections 10A (1), 61A (2), 61B (2), 73E, 90 (3), 124 (1) (gb).

2. The following provisions are amended by omitting the words ''of this Act''
and ''of this section'' (wherever occurring):-

Sections 10A (1), 61B (2), 69 (2), 73E, 78(b) and (c), 80B (3), 118A (1), (2)
and (4), 124(1) (c) and (t), 124(3).

3. The following provisions are amended by omitting the words ''the
Commonwealth'' (wherever occurring) and substituting the word ''Australia'':-

Sections 4 (definitions of ''Service Decoration'' and ''War''), 12, 42A (2),
55, 58, 61A (1) (b), 63 (1) (f), 66, 73A (2), 73D (1), 79 (1) and (1A), 82
(1), 97 (c), 109 (2), 114, 117, 118A (2) and (4), 122, 124 (1) (na), (1) (nb),
(1) (nc) (ii) and (2) (b) (i).

4. The following provisions are amended by omitting the words ''Naval Forces''
(wherever occurring) and substituting the word ''Navy'':-

Sections 4 (definition of ''sailor''), 61 (1) (g), 61B (1), 86 (2).

5. The following provisions are amended by omitting the words ''Military
Forces'' (wherever occurring) and substituting the word ''Army'':-

Sections 4 (definition of ''soldier'', ''War Service'' and ''War Substantive
Rank''), 10 (1) and (2) (b) (ii), 10A (1), (2), (3) and (7), 10C (2), 16A, 19,
33, 34, 36, 37, 39 (5), 40A, 42A, 49, 50C, 54, 55, 57, 61 (1) (g), 61B (1), 86
(2), 88, 117A, 123A, 123BB, 147 (1).

6. The Act is further amended as set out in the following table:-
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Provision                        Amendment

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Title . . . . . . . . . . . .    Omit ''the Commonwealth'', substitute

''Australia''. Section 6 . . . . . . . . . . (a) Omit ''the First Schedule'',
substitute
''Schedule 1''.

   (b)  Omit ''the Naval and Military Forces of
the Commonwealth'', substitute ''the Navy and
the Army''. Sub-section 10A (5) . . . . . Omit ''the Military Forces'',
substitute ''the
                                 Army''. Section 13  . . . . . . . . .    Omit
''the King or the Commonwealth'',
substitute ''the Crown or Australia''.
Section 31  . . . . . . . . .    Omit ''The Military Forces of the
Commonwealth
consist'', substitute ''The Army consists''.
Sub-section 32A (2) . . . . .    Omit ''the Military Forces'', substitute
''the
                                 Army''. Section 33  . . . . . . . . .    Omit
''those Forces,'' substitute ''The Army''. Section 34 . . . . . . . . . Omit
''those Forces'' (wherever occurring),
substitute ''the Army''. Section 36 . . . .
. . . . .    Omit ''those Forces'', substitute ''the Army''. Sub-section 37

(1)  . . . . .    Omit ''the Second Schedule to this Act'',

substitute ''Schedule 2''. Section 42 . . .
. . . . . .    Omit ''the Second Schedule to this Act'',

substitute ''Schedule 2''. Sub-section 42A
(1) . . . . .    Omit ''those Forces'', substitute ''the Army''. Heading to

Division 3 of Part III                              Omit ''the Forces'',

substitute ''the Army''. Paragraph 61A (1) (c) . . . .    Omit ''the
Commonwealth'', substitute ''a
Territory''. Sub-section 61A (2) . . . . .
Omit ''of this Act''. Paragraph 61C (b) . . . . . .    Omit ''the thirteenth
day of February, One
thousand nine hundred and forty-six'',
substitute ''13 February 1946''. Paragraph
61C (c) . . . . . .    Omit ''the twenty-first day of November, One

thousand nine hundred and forty-seven'',
substitute ''21 November 1947''. Sub-section
73A (1) . . . . .    (a)  Omit ''Public Service of the

Commonwealth'', substitute ''Australian Public
Service''.

   (b)  Omit ''the Commonwealth'', substitute
''Australia''. Sub-section 83 (2) . . . . . Omit ''the Commonwealth'' (last
occurring),
substitute ''Australia''. Sub-section 123BA
(1) . . . .    Omit ''the Second Schedule to this Act'',

substitute ''Schedule 2''. Sub-paragraph 124
(2) (b) (ii)  . . . . . . . . . . . .    (a)  Omit ''the twenty-sixth day of
June, One
thousand nine hundred and fifty'', substitute
''26 June 1950''.

   (b)  Omit ''the twenty-eighth day of June, One
thousand nine hundred and fifty'', substitute
''28 June 1950''. Headings to Schedules . . . . (a) Omit ''First Schedule'',
substitute
''Schedule 1''.

   (b)  Omit ''Second Schedule'', substitute
''Schedule 2''.
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