Australian Military (Places of Detention) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1943. No. 218.

REGULATION UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1941.*

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 Defence Act 1903-1941.

Dated this first day of September, 1943.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for the Army.

 

Amendment of the Australian Military (Places of Detention) Regulations.

Regulation 19 of the Australian Military (Places of Detention) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted:—

Remission of part of term of imprisonment or detention for good conduct, &c.

“19.—(1.) If a soldier sentenced to imprisonment or detention for a period of or exceeding twenty-eight days has displayed—

(a) special industry and good conduct; and

(b) except in the case of a soldier sentenced to discharge from the Military Forces on the expiration of a term of imprisonment or detention) proficiency in and attention to drill and military training,

the Commandant may remit any such part of the term of imprisonment or detention of that soldier as does not exceed—

(a) one-fourth of the period of the term, when the soldier has not previously been sentenced to a term of imprisonment or detention of or exceeding twenty-eight days;

(b) one-fifth of the period of the term, when the soldier has on one previous occasion been sentenced to a term of imprisonment or detention of or exceeding twenty-eight days; or

(c) one-sixth of the term, when the soldier has on two or more previous occasions been sentenced to a term of imprisonment or detention of or exceeding twenty-eight days.

(2.) The Commandant shall not remit any part of a term of imprisonment or detention imposed for escaping or attempting to escape from lawful custody or from any prison or place of detention”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1943.

  Statutory Rules 1940, No. 58, as amended by Statutory Rules 1941, No. 165.

 

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

4676.—Price 3d. 26/29.7.1943.