Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATUTE LAW REVISION ACT 1981 No. 61, 1981 - SECT 72

72. (1) The Australian Naval Reserve is, for all purposes, a continuation,
under that name, of the part of the Navy previously known as the Citizen Naval
Forces.

(2) Where, immediately before the proclaimed date, a period of naval 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 32A of the Principal Act with respect to a
part, or a class of members, of the Citizen Naval Forces that is continued in
existence on and after that date under the name Australian Naval Reserve -

   (a)  the amendments of section 32A 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 Naval Reserve (including persons who become members of that
        part or class after that date) until the expiration of
        the relevant period; and

   (b)  section 32A 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 in so far 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amended or repealed by regulations made under the Principal Act as amended by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).