Important Announcement:

Legislation will be brought forward under the proposed Defence Legislation Amendment Bill  2010 to amend the:   Defence Act 1903, Naval Defence Act 1910, Air Force Act 1923 - to provide that the Services Chiefs day to day administrative responsibility for their respective service cadets is subject to the direction of the Minister and/or the Chief of the Defence Force. (At present they are only subject to the direction of the Minister). 

This was part of the recommendations in the Hickling review conducted in 2008.