Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1997 No. 36 AIR FORCE REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 5

5.1 After regulation 118A, insert: Transfer of airmen to other arms of the
Defence Force

"119. (1) The Chief of Air Force may, by written instrument, transfer the
enlistment of a person as an airman in the Air Force to the Australian Army as
a soldier or the Australian Navy as a sailor if:

   (a)  the person consents to the transfer; and

   (b)  the Chief of Army or the Chief of Navy (as the case may be) approves
        the transfer.

"(2) The instrument must specify:

   (a)  the day on which the transfer takes effect; and

   (b)  the period of service for which the person is enlisted in the
        Australian Army as a soldier or the Australian Navy as a sailor (as
        the case may be); and

   (c)  the part of that arm of the Defence Force in which the person is
        enlisted; and

   (d)  the rank that the person is to hold in that arm of the Defence Force,
        and the person's seniority in that rank.

"(3) If the person is required under a determination referred to in paragraph
111 (4) (c) to complete a period of service:

   (a)  that requirement continues to apply to the person after the transfer
        takes effect; and

   (b)  the Chief of Army or the Chief of Navy (as the case may be) may, by
        instrument, refuse to authorise the discharge of the person before the
        end of the period in the same way as the Chief of Air Force could have
        refused to do so.

"(4) For all purposes connected with the person's enlistment or service as a
soldier in the Australian Army, service rendered by the person as a member of
the Air Force before the transfer is taken to have been rendered as a member
of the Australian Army.

"(5) For all purposes connected with the person's enlistment or service as a
sailor in the Australian Navy, service rendered by the person as a member of
the Australian Air Force before the transfer is taken to have been rendered as
a member of the Australian Navy.".