Air Force Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1945. No. 95.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE AIR FORCE ACT 1923-1941.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Air Force Act 1923-1941.

Dated this thirteenth day of June, 1945.

HENRY

Governor-General.

By His Royal Highness’s Command,

ARTHUR S. DRAKEFORD

Minister of State for Air.

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Amendments of the Air Force Regulations. 

Signature of documents on behalf of Air Board.

1. Regulation 30a of the Air Force Regulations is amended by inserting, after the word “order,”, the word “delegation,”.

Conduct sheets lost.

2. Regulation 701 of the Air Force Regulations is repealed.

Amendment of the Second Schedule.

3. The Second Schedule to the Air Force Regulations is amended by inserting in Table (i) Modifications, after item (lb), the following item:—

“(lba) 137 Insert after paragraph (1) the following paragraph:— ‘(1a) In the case of an officer under a charge of which he is afterwards convicted by a civil court, Court Martial, or an authority having power to deal summarily with the charge, all active pay for every day during which he is in civil custody or has been ordered into close arrest, but not for any period during which he is neither in civil custody nor ordered into close arrest.’;”.

Amendment of the Fourth Schedule.

4. The Fourth Schedule to the Air Force Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting in Table (i) Modifications, after the figures “XVII. | I. | 1323” and the words and figures opposite thereto, the following words and figures:—

“XVII. I. 1324 Add at end of clause 2 the words ‘, unless he is satisfied that no blame attached to the individual and that the court of inquiry would serve no useful purpose’.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 14th June, 1945.

  Statutory Rules 1927, No. 161, as amended by Statutory Rules 1928, Nos. 52 and 109; 1929, Nos. 75 and 114; 1930, Nos. 77, 94 and 135: 1931, Nos. 3, 78 and 115; 1932, Nos. 9, 63 and 133; 1933, Nos. 16, 46, 58, 83, 89 and 117; 1934, Nos. 25, 51, 74, 81, 122 and 125; 1935, Nos. 32 and 98; 1936, No. 17; 1937, No. 21; 1938, Nos. 12, 13, 22, 48, 77, 97 and 120; 1939, Nos. 21, 64 and 142; 1940, Nos. 31, 53, 75, 114, 125, 140, 220, 241 and 279; 1941, Nos. 68, 106, 137, 181 and 228; 1942, Nos. 29, 158, 232, 254, 346, 383, 416, 440, 441, 476 and 543; 1943, Nos. 119 and 198; and 1944, Nos. 34, 50, 64, 75, 140 and 153.

2457.—Price 3d.

“XVII I. 1324 After clause 2 add the following clause:— ‘3. When a court of inquiry is held, the proceedings will be forwarded to Air Force Head-quarters. If a court of inquiry is dispensed with, Air Force Head-quarters will be notified by letter, in order that appropriate notes may be made in the records of the officer or airman.’ ”; and

(b)by omitting from the fourth, column of that Table, opposite the figures “XVII. | I. | 1338”, the words and figures “Omit from sub-paragraph (d)the words and figures ‘as laid down in paragraph 2158’ ” and inserting in their stead the words “Omit sub-paragraph (d)”.

  

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By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.