STATUTORY
RULES.
1942. No. 440.
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REGULATION
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 Regulation
under the AirForce Act 1923-1941.
Dated
this fourteenth day of October, 1942.
GOWRIE
Governor-General.
By
His Excellency’s Command.
ARTHUR S. DRAKEFORD
Minister
of State for Air.
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Amendments
of the Air Force Regulations.
Modifications,
&c., of the Air Force Act.
1. The Second Schedule to
the Air Force Regulations is amended by inserting in Table (i) Modifications, after item (h),
the following items:—
“(ha) | 44 | Omit paragraph (5) of
the proviso and insert in its stead the following paragraph:— ‘(5) A court martial may award
field punishment for any offence committed on active service and may sentence
the offender to that form of punishment for a term not exceeding three
months.’;
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“(hb) | 44 | Omit paragraph (9) of
the proviso and insert in its stead the following paragraph:— ‘(9) (a) Where an offender is sentenced to field punishment, he may,
during the continuance of his sentence, unless the court martial or the commanding
officer otherwise directs, be punished as follows:— (i) He may be confined in such
place as an airman under detention is confined and shall, whilst so confined,
be treated as an airman under detention; and (ii) he may be subjected to the
like, labour, employment and restraint, and dealt with in like manner as if
he were under sentence of imprisonment with hard labour.
(b) Field punishment shall be carried out in the unit. (c) When the unit to which an offender under sentence of field punishment
belongs, or is attached, is actually on the move, the offender shall march
with his unit, carry his arms and accoutrements, perform all his air-force
duties, and be treated as a defaulter.’;”.
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Commencement.
2. The amendment effected
by regulation 1. of these Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation
as on and from the eighteenth day of July, 1940.
*
Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 15th October, 1942.
Statutory
Rules 1927, No. 101, 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, 82, 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;
and 1942, Nos. 29, 158, 232, 254, 346, 383 and 316.—Sixty-first amendment.
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