STATUTE LAW REVISION ACT 1981 No. 61, 1981 - SECT 12 Service of the Australian Air Force Reserve

STATUTE LAW REVISION ACT 1981 No. 61, 1981 - SECT 12

12. Section 4J of the Principal Act is amended -

   (a)  by omitting sub-sections (1) and (2) and substituting the following
        sub-sections:





"(1) Subject to this section, members of the Australian Air Force Reserve are
not bound to render continuous full time air-force service.



"(2) The regulations shall fix, or make provision for fixing, training periods
in respect of the Air Force Active Reserve and the Air Force Specialist
Reserve, or different training periods in respect of different parts, or
different classes of members, of those Reserves.



"(2A) Members of the Air Force Active Reserve or the Air Force Specialist
Reserve are bound to render, in each training period, airforce service, other
than continuous full time air-force service, for such periods as are fixed by
or in accordance with the regulations, unless exempted by or in accordance
with the regulations from the obligation to render the whole or a part of that
service.



"(2B) The regulations -

   (a)  may make provision for different periods of air-force service with
        respect to different parts, or different classes of members, of the
        Air Force Active Reserve or the Air Force Specialist Reserve; and

   (b)  may make provision for exempting -

        (i)    a particular member of the Air Force Active Reserve or the Air
               Force Specialist Reserve; or

        (ii)   members within a specified class of members of the Air Force
               Active Reserve or the Air Force Specialist Reserve, from the
               obligation to render, during a training period, the whole or
               part of the air-force service that he or they would otherwise
               be bound to render during that period.";

   (b)  by omitting from sub-section (3) "Citizen Air Force" and substituting
        "Australian Air Force Reserve"; and

   (c)  by omitting sub-section (4) and substituting the following
        sub-sections:



"(4) A member of the Australian Air Force Reserve may at any time voluntarily
undertake to render air-force service, other than continuous full time
air-force service, for a period or periods specified by him, and, if that
undertaking is accepted, the member is bound to render air-force service in
accordance with that undertaking or for such period or periods within that
specified period, or within those specified periods, as the case may be, as
the prescribed authority directs.



"(5) Where a period is fixed, for the purposes of this sub-section, by or in
accordance with the regulations, in respect of a part, or a class of members,
of the Air Force Active Reserve of the Air Force Specialist Reserve, a member
of that Reserve included in that part or class may, in addition to rendering
air-force service that he is bound to render in pursuance of sub-section (2A)
or (4), render voluntarily, in a training period, air-force service for a
period not exceeding, or for periods not exceeding in the aggregate, the
period so fixed.



"(6) Where a kind or kinds of air-force service is or are fixed, for the
purposes of this sub-section, by or in accordance with the regulations in
respect of a part, or a class of members, of the Air Force Active Reserve or
the Air Force Specialist Reserve, being a part or class in respect of which a
period is fixed for the purposes of sub-section (5), that sub-section does not
authorize a member of that Reserve included in that part or class to render
voluntarily air-force service of a kind other than a kind so fixed.



"(7) Nothing in this section affects the liability of a member of the
Australian Air Force Reserve to be employed on continuous full time air-force
service while he is a member of a part of that Reserve called out for such
service under section 50A or 51 of the Defence Act.".