Australian Military Regulations 1916 (Amendment) (Cth)
STATUTORY RULES.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903–1915.
AUSTRALIAN MILITARY REGULATIONS 1916—ADDITIONS.
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
Dated this seventh day of February, One thousand nine hundred and seventeen.
R. M. FERGUSON,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
W. H. LAIRD SMITH,
for Minister of State for Defence.
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Australian Military Regulations 1916—Additions.
Part XXIII.—Australian Army Reserve.
1350. An Australian Army Reserve shall be established, consisting of Officers, Warrant and Non-Commissioned Officers, and men of the following classes, provided they are physically fit for active service of which the Attesting Officer shall be the judge:—Class A.—Composed of those who have completed their training as prescribed by section 125 (
c ) of the Act and are liable to be trained in accordance with the provisions of section 125 (d ) of the Act.On completion of their service in Class A officers and other ranks may he transferred to Class B.
Class B.—Voluntary under 50 years of age composed of—
(1) Australian officers and soldiers who have been on active service and are in possession of a “good” discharge;
(2) Ex-members of the Permanent Military Forces of the Commonwealth: Provided, however, that any N.C.O.’s and men desirous of so enlisting are in possession of a ‘‘good” discharge;
(3) Men resident in the Commonwealth who have been on active service with any other Military Forces of the Empire and are in possession of a “good” discharge provided they are not members of the Reserve of such portion of the Empire;
(4) Men who have completed their service in Class A.
Class C.—Members of Rifle Clubs.
1351 There shall also be an Honorary Reserve in which the under-mentioned may enrol or to which they may, at their own request, be transferred:––(1) Those who have completed their service in Class A and do not desire to continue in Class B;
(2) Members of the Australian Army Reserve who are over the age of 50 years;
(3) Members of the Australian Army Reserve, otherwise eligible who are physically unfit;
(4) Ex-members of the Permanent Military Forces of the Commonwealth who are over 50 years of age: Provided, however that N.C.O.’s and men are in possession of a“good” discharge;
(5) Members of the Reserve of other portions of the Empire;
(6) Men over the age of 50 years who are resident in the Commonwealth and who have been on active service with any other Military Forces of the Empire, provided they are not members of the Reserve of such portion of the Empire.
(2)Those who have been on active service with Australian troops prior to August, 1914, and ex-members of the Permanent Military Forces of the Commonwealth may enrol in the Australian Army Reserve unit which will best carry on the traditions of the unit with which they served.
(3)Any resident in the Commonwealth who has been on active service with any other Military Forces of the Empire may, if not on the Reserve of such Forces, enrol in the Australian Army Reserve unit of his arm nearest their place of residence.
(2) On the first day of each month Attesting Officers will forward Commandants of Military Districts a nominal roll of men as enrolled reservists during the previous month.
(3) The Director-General of the Australian Army Reserve shall appoint officers or classes of officers to be Attesting Officers or authorized witnesses.
1356. The Reserve Registrar shall arrange all cards received by him in an index in accordance with the, directions issued by the Director General of the Australian Army Reserve. The index will be maintained by the Reserve Registrar as a record of the members of the Australian Army Reserve whose places of living are within the Federal electorate.
1357. Whenever a transfer, change, alteration or correction of electoral enrolment of a member of the Australian Army Reserve is made. or the name of a member is removed from an electoral roll, the Reserve Registrar for the Division will receive from the Commonwealth Electoral Officer, through the Divisional Returning Officer for the Division, a notification of such transfer, change, alteration, correction or removal.The Reserve Registrar will notify the Commanding Officer of a reserve unit of all changes and alterations in the
personnel appertaining to his command.
1358. Upon the receipt by a Reserve Registrar of a notification pursuant to Regulation 1357 he shall make a corresponding change on the military card of such member of the Australian Army Reserve, and, if the notification relates to a transfer of electoral enrolment from one Electoral Division to another, shall transmit the military card to the Reserve Registrar for the Electoral Division to which such member has changed his place of living.
1359. If the Reserve Registrar for a Division becomes aware that a member of the Australian Army Reserve has changed his place of living to that Division and such Registrar has not received any notification as provided in Regulation 1357, he shall forthwith, if he does not hold the position of Divisional Returning Officer, inform the Divisional Returning Officer for the Division of the fact, and, if practicable, of the member’s former place of living.
1360. Upon the receipt by a Reserve Registrar of the notification of removal from the electoral roll of the name of a member of the Australian Army Reserve by reason of death or objection, the Reserve Registrar shall remove the card relating to that member from his index, and shall retain the card for future reference if necessary.
1361. (1)Upon receipt of a notification from the Commonwealth Electoral Officer of the enrolment of a member of the Australian Army Reserve whose card has been removed from the Reserve Registrar’s index for the reason that the member’s electoral enrolment has been cancelled owing to objection, the Reserve Registrar shall, if the member is re-enrolled for his Division, replace the card in his index, and if the member is enrolled for another Division, send the card to the Reserve Registrar for that Division.(2) When the Commonwealth Electoral Officer for the State receives a notification that a member of the Australian Army Reserve has resigned or has been struck off the roll of the unit to which he belongs, the Commonwealth Electoral Officer shall—
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b ) notify through the Divisional Returning Officer the Reserve Registrar for the Division in which such member is living.(3) Upon receipt of a notification under the preceding Regulation the Reserve Registrar shall remove the card of such member from the index kept by him.
1362. A Director-General of the Australian Army Reserve shall be appointed under the Adjutant-General. He will be responsible for the organization and administration of the Australian Army Reserve.
1363. The Divisional Returning Officer or a military officer may be appointed to act as Registrar of the Australian Army Reserve in each Electoral Division.In all cases where an Area Officer is stationed in the same town as a Divisional Returning Officer and the Divisional Returning Officer is not the Reserve Registrar, the Area Officer shall act as Reserve Registrar.
1364. A Commanding Officer shall be appointed to each reserve unit but with regard to his command he will be subordinate to the Commanding Officer, of the parent unit, irrespective of rank.Officers and non-commissioned officers will be appointed to the various reserve units as prescribed by the Regulations, but in all cases such officers and non-commissioned officers shall be junior in rank to officers and non-commissioned officers of corresponding rank in the Citizen Forces of the Commonwealth.
In all matters other than those affecting training the Commanding Officer of each reserve unit will communicate direct with the District Head-Quarters. The head-quarters of a reserve unit shall be that of its parent unit.
1365. Those eligible under Classes A and B referred to in Regulation 1350 may be enrolled as members of the Australian Army Reserve upon taking before an officer or a justice of the peace the oath set forth in the second schedule of the Defence Act.
1366. Every soldier of the Australian Army Reserve may, except in time of war, claim his discharge by giving fourteen days’ notice in writing to his Commanding Officer. In the case of members who are in possession of, or responsible for, any Government property, the same must be returned and delivered in good order to such place as their Commanding Officer may appoint or the value of the article or damage, or deterioration be paid before the resignation can be accepted.
1367. Every member of the Australian Army Reserve who changes his address at any time after enrolment shall, within thirty days of such change, notify such change of address to his Commanding Officer. Failure to notify change of address may entail the member being struck off the strength of the reserve unit to which he belongs.
1368. Absence for a longer period than three months from the locality in which the unit to which the member belongs is situated shall be deemed to mean departure from the district, and any member so absent, except on leave obtained from his Commanding Officer, shall be liable to be struck off the strength of the unit to which he belongs.
1369. (1) Except in time of war, any member of the Australian Army Reserve who fails to perform the authorized course of training for two years may be struck off the roll by his Commanding Officer.(2)The Commanding Officer may, subject to the right of appeal to the District Commandant, dismiss any member of the Australian Army Reserve for a breach of the Regulations or for any conduct which, in his opinion, may bring discredit on the Australian Army Reserve.
(3) When a member of the Australian Army Reserve resigns or is struck off the roll for any cause the Commanding Officer shall notify the Commonwealth Electoral Officer for the State.
1370. Any member of the Australian Army Reserve on leaving the locality in which his unit is situated may, at his own request, be transferred to another unit of the Australian Army Reserve convenient to his intended place of residence, provided that application is made on the authorized form and the transfer is approved by his Commanding Officer and the Commanding Officer of the unit to which he desires to transfer.
1371 . (1) The responsibility for the training of each unit of the Australian Army Reserve will rest with the officer commanding the militia unit with which it is linked. For the purpose of training, officers of the Australian Army Reserve will be used when locally available and suitable.(2) Members of the Australian Army Reserve who do not reside near the head-quarters of their own reserve unit will train with that nearest their place of residence.
(3) Members of the Australian Army Reserve living where no unit exists may be brought together for training at a time and place least likely to interfere with their civil occupations.
(4) Except in time of war, the period of training for Classes A and B shall not exceed the equivalent of four clear days per annum. The decision as to the classes to be trained each year shall rest with the Minister. The training may be either home or continuous, according to local conditions. In the case of a member living too far away to make it possible for him to train with his reserve unit, he may be allowed to fire with a rifle club the course of musketry authorized for it (which shall be equivalent to one day’s training only). Nothing in this sub-Regulation will prevent the holding of voluntary parades or voluntary camps of training should such be deemed advisable.
(5) No training will be required from the honorary reserve.
1372. In time of war, all members of the Australian Army Reserve, no matter where they may be resident in the Commonwealth, when mobilized will be concentrated at the head-quarters of their particular unit or as otherwise directed.
1373. The pay and allowances of all ranks of the Australian Army Reserve, other than Class C, during their annual period of training, shall be at the same daily rates as that of the corresponding rank of the Citizen Forces of the Commonwealth.
1374. Arms and equipment will be provided as they become available and arrangements may be made for their proper custody in conveniently located armouries.
1375. Classes A and B (1) and B (2) of the Australian Army Reserve will be required to maintain the uniform issued to them as members of the Militia, Australian Imperial Force, and Permanent Forces respectively.No uniform will he issued to members of Class C or the honorary Reserve but such members will, if they possess same, be entitled to wear the uniform of their particular unit on national occasions and at such times as the wearing of uniform may be authorized.
All members of the Australian Army Reserve who are in possession of uniform shall wear the letter “R” on the head dress, above the numeral.
Division VII. —Territorial Associations.
1376. (1) For the purpose set out hereunder Territorial Associations shall be formed in each of the seventy-five Federal electorates of the Commonwealth, the Northern Territory, the Federal Territory and Papua.(2)In the case of each Federal electorate all shire and municipal councillors, and all State members of Parliament whose shires, municipalities, and constituencies shall he wholly, or in greater part, within the boundaries of such Federal electorate, may be members of the Territorial Association of such Federal electorate. The Federal member for such electorate may be a member of the Territorial Association. Any member of the Federal Senate or of the Legislative Council of a State may, if be so desires, become a member of the Territorial Association in his State, but a senator or a member of the Legislative Council may not be a member of more than one Association. The Commandant shall have power to nominate any other persons as members of a Territorial Association.
(3) The various Associations shall elect their own presidents and other officers, and shall have power to recommend for the approval by the District Commandant any suitable persons for appointment as member of the Association.
(4)In the case of the Northern Territory and Papua, the Administrators will nominate the president and such members as they deem fit.
(5)There shall be a District Council consisting of one representative elected by each Territorial Association of the District. The Military Commandant shall be the President of the District Council. The Lord Mayor or Mayor of the capital city in the Military District may,
ex –officio, be a member of the District Council.
1377 . The duties and functions ofTerritorial Associations will include the following:—(1)To render assistance to the Military Authorities in their Territorial Area in all matters affecting the recreation, contentment, and well-being of the Military Forces within that Territorial Area;
(2)To induce the public within their Territorial Area by voluntary effort to build drill halls and gymnasia, and to encourage rifle shooting and organize soldiers’ clubs;
(3)To provide by voluntary effort for the maintenance of lands acquired and the buildings erected by the Association for military and recreation purposes within the Territorial Area;
(4)To provide, free of cost, to the Military Authorities forage and rations for voluntary local camps of training;
(5)To arrange with employers as to holidays for training and ascertain the times for training best suited to local conditions, and such other matters as may be prescribed;
(6)To endeavour, by systematic effort, in association with the recognised organizations, to find employment for members of the Australian Army Reserve;
(7)To encourage the public within the Territorial Area to provide homes for local members of the Australian Army Reserve who have been on active service and who are incapacitated or who are without friends.
(8) The Commonwealth shall not beunder any liability in respect of anything done or omitted to be done by any Territorial Association or by any officer or member of any such Association and no proceedings shall be instituted against the Commonwealth in respect of anything so done or omitted to be done.
Model Scheme for a Territorial Association.
1. For the purposes set out in the Regulations under the Defence Act there shall, as from the day of , 1917, be established a Territorial Association for the Federal Electorate of , and that Territorial Association here in after referred to as the Association), shall be called the Territorial Association of the Federal Electorate of
2. The duties and functions of Territorial Associations will include the following: —(1) To render assistance to the Military Authorities in their Territorial Area in all matters affecting the recreation, contentment, and well-being of the Military Forces within that Territorial Area;
(2) To induce the public within that Territorial Area by voluntary effort to build drill-halls and gymnasia, and to encourage rifle-shooting and organize soldiers’ clubs.
(3) To provide by voluntary effort for the maintenance of lands acquired and the buildings erected by the Association for military and recreation purposes within the Territorial Area;
(4) To provide free of cost to the Military Authorities forage and rations for voluntary local camps of training;
(5) To arrange with employers as to holidays for training and ascertain the times for training best suited to local conditions, and such other matters as may be prescribed;
(6) To endeavour, by systematic effort, in association with the recognised organizations to find employment for members of the Australian Army Reserve;
(7) To encourage the public within the Territorial Area to provide homes for local members of the Australian Army Reserve who have been on active service and who are incapacitated or who are without friends.
3. The Association shall elect from its own number a president, chairman, vice-chairman, secretary, and treasurer, who will hold office for one year but will be eligible for re-election. There shall be paid to the secretary such salary, if any, as the Association thinks fit.
4. The appointment of members of the Association will be made by the District Commandant. The following classes of persons are eligible for such appointment: —(
a ) The Federal member for the electorate;(
b ) Any member of the Federal Senate or of a State Legislative Council who may elect to become a member of such Association:Provided, however, that any Senator or member of a State Legislative Council may not become a member of more than one Association;
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c ) All members of State Legislative Assemblies and all shire and municipal councillors whose representative areas are wholly or in greater part within the boundaries of the Association;(
d ) Members of the Australian Military Forces including the Australian Army Reserve or any other persons recommended by the Association for the approval of the District Commandant;(
e )Any other persons resident within the Federal electorate appointed by the District Commandant.
5. Excepting in the case of members of the Federal Parliament, State Parliaments, municipal and shire councillors who will vacate their office as members of the Association when they cease to be members of the Federal or State Parliaments or municipal or shire councils the member of the Association will, in the month of July in every third year after the year 1917, vacate office and new appointments shall be made, but a person vacating office may, if otherwise qualified be re-appointed.
6. (a ) If a member of the Association is absent from meetings of Association for more than six months consecutively, except for some reason approved by the Association, he shall cease to be a member of the Association.(
b )If a military member of the Association ceases to be a member of the Military Forces he shall cease to be a military member of the Association.(
c )A person shall be disqualified from being appointed or being a member of the Association if he holds any paid office under the Association, or is concerned in any bargain or contract entered into with the Association, or participates in the profit of any such bargain or contract or of any work done under the authority of the Association.Provided that a person shall not be disqualified from being appointed a member of the Association by reason of being interested—
(i) in the sale or lease of lands to the Association; or
(ii) in any agreement, as to compensation under the Defence Act; or
(iii) in any newspaper in which any advertisement relating to the affairs of the Association is inserted; or
(iv) in any contract with the Association as shareholder in any joint stock company; or
(v) in any bargain or contract which the District Commandant may from time to time by general order permit an Association to make with a member thereof:
Provided that a member shall not vote at any meeting of the Association on any question in which he or such company is interested.
7.( a )On a casual vacancy occurring in the Association by reason of the death, resignation, disqualification, or absence of a member, or otherwise, another qualified person shall be appointed a member of the Association, by the authority and in the manner by and in which the member so vacating office was appointed.A person so appointed to fill a vacancy shall hold office until the person in whose place he is appointed would have regularly gone out of office, and shall then go out of office, but he shall be eligible for re-election.
( b ) On a casual vacancy occurring in the Association, the secretary of the Association shall forthwith give notice of the vacancy to the District Commandant.
8. At every meeting of the Association the chairman, if present, shall preside. If the chairman is absent, the vice-chairman, if present, shall preside. If the chairman and vice-chairman are both absent, such member of the Association as the members then present choose shall preside.Provided that the president of the Association, if present at the meeting of the Association, shall, if he so elects, be entitled to preside.s
9. The quorum of the Association shall be one-fourth of the whole number of the Association.
10. Every question at a meeting of the Association shall be decided by a majority of votes of the members present and voting on that question, and, in the case of equality of votes, the person presiding at the meeting shall have a second or casting vote.
11. There shall be a General Purposes Committee of the Association, consisting of the chairman and vice-chairman of the Association and such other members as the Association may determine, and the chairman and vice-chairman of the Association shall be the chairman and vice-chairman of the General Purposes Committee.All matters relating to the exercise by the Association of their powers (except such as may be referred to a special committee under this scheme), shall stand referred to the General Purposes Committee; and the Association, before exercising any such powers shall, unless in their opinion the matter is urgent, receive and consider the report of the General Purposes Committee with respect to the matter in question, and may also delegate to the General Purposes Committee, with or without any conditions or restrictions as they think fit, any of such powers, and shall so delegate any of such powers if so required by the District Commandant.
No order for payment of any sum shall be made by the Association except in pursuance of a resolution of the Association passed on the recommendation of the General Purposes Committee, and no cost, debt, or liabilities exceeding Fifty Pounds shall be incurred except upon a resolution of the Association passed on an estimate submitted by the General Purposes Committee.
12. The Association mayappoint, out of their own body, such and so many other special committees, and consisting of such number of persons as they think fit for any purpose which, in the opinion of the Association, would be better regulated and managed by means of special committees and may, except as aforesaid, delegate with or without any conditions or restrictions as they may think fit, any of their powers and duties to any committee of the Association so appointed.
13. The Association may make regulations as to the quorum, proceedings and place of meeting of the General Purposes or any special committee so appointed, but, subject thereto, the quorum, proceedings, and place of meeting of the committee shall be such as the committee determine.
14. A minute of the proceedings of the Association or of a committee thereof signed at the same or the next ensuing meeting by a member of the Association, describing himself as, or appearing to be, chairman of the meeting at which the minute is signed, shall be received in evidence without further proof, and, until the contrary is found, every meeting in respect of the proceedings whereof a minute has been so made, shall be deemed to have been duly convened and held, and all members of the meeting shall be deemed to have been duly qualified, and, where the proceedings are the proceedings of a committee, the committee shall be deemed to have been duly constituted, and to have had power to deal the matter referred to in the minute.
15. No act or proceedings of the Association shall be questioned on account of any vacancy in their body or on account of the appointment of any member having been defective.
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16. Subject to the provisions of this scheme, the Association may regulate their own procedure.
17. (a )Any officer appointed by the Association shall at such time during the continuance of his office, or within three months after his ceasing to hold it, and in such manner as the Association direct, deliver to the Association a true account in writing of all matters committed to his charge, and of his receipts and payments with vouchers, and shall at all times on the demand of the Association deliver up to them any book or document in his possession belonging to the Association.(
b ) All moneys due from such officer shall be paid by him to the Treasurer of the Association, or as the Association may direct.(
c ) Any officer shall, if required by the Association, give such security as the Association may direct for the due accounting for all property, stores and moneys in his charge; and the security shall be for such sum and shall be given in such manner and form as the Association may from time to time order in the case of each officer, and the Association may at any time require that the amount or nature of such security be varied.
Form A
AUSTRALIAN ARMY RESERVE.
Surname | Christian Name | |
Occupation | Date of Birth |
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Place of living at date of
enlistment
Rank Regiment Service from to
War Service
Date of Discharge Class in Reserve | Reason for Discharge If in receipt of Pension |
I swear that I will well and truly serve our Sovereign Lord the King as a member of the Reserve Forces of the Commonwealth of Australia and that I will resist His Majesty’s enemies, and cause His Majesty’s peace to be kept and maintained, and that I will in all matters appertaining to my service, faithfully discharge my duty according to law. So help me, God.
Witness to Signature
Personal Signature of Member of Australian Army Reserve
Designation under which Witness signed as prescribed Witness
Dated this | day of | , 19. |
Form A
Date. | Place of Living. | Initials of Reserve Registrar. | ||
Form B | Honorary Reserve. | |||
AUSTRALIAN ARMY RESERVE. | ||||
Surname | Christian Name | |||
Occupation | Date of Birth |
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Place of living at date of enlistment
Rank Regiment Service from to
War Service
Date of Discharge Class in Reserve | Reason for Discharge If in receipt of Pension |
Physical defects
Witness to Signature
Personal Signature of Member of Honorary Reserve
Designation under which Witness signed as prescribed Witness
Dated this | day of | 19 . |
Form B
Date. | Place of living. | Initials of Reserve Registrar. |
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