Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATUTE LAW REVISION ACT 1981 No. 61, 1981 - SECT 13

13. (1) The Australian Air Force Reserve is, for all purposes, a continuation,
under that name, of the part of the Air Force previously known as the
Citizen Air Force.

(2) Where, immediately before the proclaimed date, a period of air-force
service that was to be rendered during a period (in this sub-section referred
to as "the relevant period") that commenced before, and ends after, that date
was fixed for the purposes of section 4J of the Principal Act with respect to
a part, or a class of members, of the Citizen Air Force that is continued in
existence on and after that date under the name Australian Air Force Reserve -

   (a)  the amendments of section 4J of the Principal Act made by this Act do
        not apply to or in relation to members of that part or class of the
        Australian Air Force Reserve (including persons who become members of
        that part or class after that date) until the expiration of
        the relevant period; and

   (b)  section 4J of the Principal Act and the regulations in force for the
        purposes of that section immediately before that date continue to
        apply, notwithstanding those amendments, to and in relation to those
        members as if those amendments had not been made.

(3) All regulations in force under the Principal Act immediately before the
proclaimed date continue in force except insofar as they are inconsistent with
the Principal Act as amended by this Act, but any such regulations may be
amended or repealed by regulations made under the Principal Act as amended by
this Act.

(4) In this section, "proclaimed date" means the date that is fixed by
Proclamation under sub-section 2 (2).