EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Statutory Rules 2002 No. 280
Naval Defence Act 1910
Naval Forces Repeal Regulations 2002
Issued by the authority of the Minister for Veterans' Affairs
Subsection 45 (1) of the Naval Defence Act 1910 provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, prescribing all matters which are required or necessary or convenient, for securing the good government of the Navy, or for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.
This Statutory Rule forms part of a package which consolidates the existing regulations relating to personnel matters contained in service specific regulations, as well as some former provisions of the Defence Act 1903 and the Naval Defence Act 1910 into a single consolidated set of tri-service regulations contained in the Defence (Personnel) Regulations 2002 (the Principal Regulations). The Principal Regulations were made in an interim form in March 2002. However, the Defence (Personnel) Amendment Regulations 2002, which form part of this package of regulation changes, have consolidated all of these personnel provisions into the one Statutory Rule.
The purpose of the Statutory Rule is to repeal the Naval Forces Regulations 1935, as the Defence (Personnel) Regulations 2002 now embody the subject matter of the repealed regulations.
Regulation 1 names the Regulations as the Naval Forces Repeal Regulations 2002.
Regulation 2 provides that the Regulations commence on 1 December 2002.
Regulation 3 repeals the Naval Forces Regulations 1935.