Australian Military Regulations 1916 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1917. No. 313.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1917.

I, SIR ARTHUR LYULPH STANLEY, Governor of the State of Victoria and its Dependencies, acting as the Deputy of the Governor-General in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Defence Act 1903-1917 to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this 27th day of November, 1917.

A. L. STANLEY,

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. E. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

 

The Australian Military Regulations 1916 are amended as follows:—

(1) Regulation 411 is repealed, and the following new Regulation made in lieu thereof:—

411. The following days or any days prescribed under the law of any State to be observed in lieu thereof in that State shall be observed as holidays in military offices, namely:—

First day of January,

Twenty-sixth day of January,

Christmas Day and the following day,

Good Friday and the following Saturday and Monday,

The anniversary of the Birthday of the Sovereign, and any day proclaimed by the Governor-General or required by any Act to be observed in lieu of any of these days.

(2) Whenever any one of these days falls upon a Sunday the next following Monday shall be observed as a holiday in military offices in lieu of that Sunday.

(3) Where by or under the law of a State any day or part of a day is appointed to be or is proclaimed as a public holiday or bank holiday or half-holiday throughout that State or in any part of that State, such day or half-day shall be observed as a holiday or half-holiday, as the case may be, in military offices of the Commonwealth throughout that State, or part of that State, as the case may be.

(4) The Governor-General may also by proclamation at any time appoint in addition to the days hereinbefore named any specified day or specified part of a day to be kept as a holiday or half-holiday in military offices of the Commonwealth or in any part thereof.

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(5) The Minister, the Secretary, Department of Defence, the Military Board or a District Commandant may require any military office to be kept open in the public interest for the whole or any portion of a holiday and may require the attendance and services of any member of the Forces during any holiday; but in that case the member shall be granted in lieu a holiday or portion of a holiday on some other day, but no day or half-day in lieu shall be granted for attendance during any holiday or half-holiday observed in pursuance of Sub-regulation (3) of this Regulation unless—

(a) the holiday or half-holiday (as the case may be) is a public holiday or half-holiday throughout the State; and

(b)the Minister directs that grant of a day or half-day in lieu shall be made for attendance on such holiday or half-holiday.

(6) No holiday will be granted in lieu of any Sunday on which the attendance and services of any member of the Forces has been required.

(2) Regulation 412 is repealed.

(3) Regulation 1218 is amended by adding thereto the following Sub-regulation:—

“(6) Commandants may require at any time the resignation of any Senior Cadet Officers so permitted to continue their service in the Senior Cadets, and they will thereupon be allotted to the Militia Forces in the same manner as other trainees are allotted. Any year of Commissioned service in the Senior Cadets for the period during which Senior Cadet Officers have been permitted to continue to serve, as mentioned in Sub-regulation (1) of this Regulation, will be calculated as service in the Military Forces, provided that the Officers concerned have been classified as efficient for that year.”

 

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