Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1979 No. 251 NAVAL FORCES REGULATIONS (AMENDMENTS) - REG 2

2. After Division 3A of Part I of the Naval Forces Regulations the following
Division is inserted:
                  " Division 4-Ranks of officers and sailors
Ranks of officers

" 21. (1) Subject to sub-regulations (2) and (3), the ranks of officers (other
than chaplains) in order of seniority, commencing with the most senior rank,
shall be the ranks specified in Column 2 of the following table:
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Column 1   Column 2                                         Column 3

Item       Ranks other than for chaplains and Naval Police  Ranks for Naval

Police
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--  1         Admiral of the Fleet

 2         Admiral

 3         Vice-Admiral

 4         Rear-Admiral

 5         Commodore

 6         Captain

 7         Commander                                        Superintendent

 8         Lieutenant-Commander                             Chief Inspector

 9         Lieutenant                                       Inspector

10         Sub-Lieutenant                                   Sub-Inspector

11         Acting Sub-Lieutenant

12         Midshipman

13         Cadet Midshipman

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" (2) The ranks of officers of the Naval Police shall be the ranks specified
in Column 3 of the table in sub-regulation (1).

" (3) All ranks specified in an item in the table in sub-regulation (1) shall
be of equal seniority. Prior service of female officers

" 22. (1) For the purposes of determining under section 14 of the Act the
seniority of members of the Navy in their respective ranks, an officer of the
Royal Australian Naval Nursing Service, the Women's Royal Australian Naval
Service or the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service Reserve who holds
substantively a rank specified in Column 2 of the table in this sub-regulation
in an item in that table and who, for any period at any time before the
commencement of this regulation, held substantively a rank specified in Column
3 or 4 of that table in that item, shall be deemed to have held substantively
during the whole of that period the rank specified in Column 2 of that table
in that item:
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Column 1   Column 2               Column 3               Column 4

Former ranks in
Women's
Royal Australian Naval
Former ranks in Royal Service or Women's
Royal
Australian Naval
                                  Nursing                Australian Naval

Service
Item       Ranks                  Service                Reserve

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-- 1          Captain                                       Captain

Superintendent
2          Commander              Matron                 Chief Officer

3          Lieutenant-Commander   Superintending Sister  First Officer

4          Lieutenant             Senior Sister          Second Officer

5          Sub-Lieutenant         Sister                 Third Officer

6          Acting Sub-Lieutenant                         Third Officer (on

probation)
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--   " (2) For the purposes of determining under section 14 of the Act the
seniority of members of the Navy in their respective ranks, an officer of the
Royal Australian Naval Nursing Service, the Women's Royal Australian Naval
Service or the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service Reserve who for any
period at any time before the commencement of this regulation held temporarily
a rank specified in Column 3 or 4 of the table in sub-regulation (1) in an
item in that table shall be deemed to have held temporarily during the whole
of that period the rank specified in Column 2 of that table in that item.
Ranks of female officers

" 23. (1) An officer of the Royal Australian Naval Nursing Service, the
Women's Royal Australian Naval Service or the Women's Royal Australian Naval
Service Reserve who immediately before the commencement of this regulation
held substantively a rank specified in Column 3 or 4 of the table in
sub-regulation 22 (1) in an item in that table holds, at the commencement of
this regulation, substantively the rank specified in Column 2 of that table in
that item.

" (2) An officer of the Royal Australian Naval Nursing Service, the Women's
Royal Australian Naval Service or the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service
Reserve who immediately before the commencement of this regulation held
temporarily a rank specified in Column 3 or 4 of the table in sub-regulation
22 (1) in an item in that table holds, at the commencement of this regulation,
temporarily the rank specified in Column 2 of that table in that item. Ranks
of sailors

" 24. (1) Subject to sub-regulations (2) and (3), the ranks of sailors in
order of seniority, commencing with the most senior rank, shall be the ranks
specified in Column 2 of the following table:
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Column 1   Column 2                                         Column 3

Item       Ranks other than for Naval Police                Ranks for Naval

Police
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-- 1          Warrant Officer                                  Warrant
Officer
2          Chief Petty Officer                              Sergeant

3          Artificer, 1st Class

Mechanician, 1st Class
Shipwright, 1st Class
4          Petty Officer                                    Senior Constable

5          Leading Seaman                                   Constable

6          Able Seaman                                      Recruit Constable

7          Seaman

8          Recruit

Apprentice
9          Junior recruit

Junior musician

" (2) The ranks of sailors of the Naval Police shall be the ranks specified in
Column 3 of the table in sub-regulation (1).

" (3) All ranks specified in an item in the table in sub-regulation (1) shall
be of equal seniority.".