Australian Military Regulations 1916 (Cth)
STATUTORY RULES.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903–1915.
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 twenty-eighth day of July, One thousand nine hundred and sixteen.
R. M. FERGUSON,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
G. F. PEARCE,
Minister of State for Defence.
Part I.—Preliminary:
Part II.—Government of the Forces—
Division 1.—Council of Defence.
Division 2.—Military Board.
Division 3.—War Railway Council.
Division 4.—Inspector-General.
Part III.—Military Districts.
Part IV.—Precedence of Corps and Officers—
Division 1.—Precedence of Corps.
Division 2.—Command, Rank, Precedence, &c., of Officers.
Division 3.—Corresponding Ranks in Naval and Military Forces.
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Part V.—Appointment, Promotion, Exchange, Transfer, Retirement, and Resignation of Officers—
Division 1.—General.
Division 2.—Appointment to First Commissions in the Administrative and Instructional Staff, Royal Australian Artillery, Royal Australian Engineers, and Australian Survey Corps, &c.
Division 3.—Appointment of Graduates from Royal Military College.
Division 4.—Australian Army Veterinary Corps (Permanent).
Division 5.—Aviation Instructional Staff.
Division 6.—Adjutants and Quartermasters.
Division 7.—Appointments to First Commissions, Promotion, and Service in the Militia Forces.
Division 8.—Commanding Officers.
Division 9.—Aides-de-Camp to Governor-General.
Division 10.—Honorary Physicians and Honorary Surgeons to Governor-General.
Division 11.—Aides-de-Camp to State Governors.
Division 12.—Consular Representatives.
Division 13.—Militia Adjutants.
Division 14.—Officers of Intelligence Section.
Division 15.—Quartermasters.
Division 16.—Honorary Colonels-in-Chief and Honorary Colonels.
Division 17.—Duration of Appointments on Administrative and Instructional Staff.
Division 18.—Promotions—Generally.
Division 19.—Chaplains’ Department.
Division 20.—Exchange and Transfer.
Division 21.—Seconded Officers.
Division 22.—Supernumerary Regimental Officers.
Division 23.—Unattached List.
Division 24.—Reserve of Officers.
Division 25.—Retirement.
Division 26.—Unattached Reserve and Retired Officers.
Division 27.—Death or Resignation of Officers.
Part VI.—Warrant and Non-commissioned Officers—
Division 1.—Appointments and Promotions, Permanent Forces.
Division 2.—Appointment, Promotion, and Transfer in the Militia Forces.
Division 3.—Military Staff Clerks.
Division 4.—General Provisions—Permanent and Militia Forces.
Division 5.—Rank on Retirement.
Part VII.—Organization—
Division 1.—Militia.
Division 2.—Battalion and Training Areas.
Part VIII.—Honours and Salutes—
Division 1.—General Instructions.
Division 2.—Official Visits.
Division 3.—Guards of Honour
Division 4.—Flag Stations and Flags to be flown.
Division 5.—Saluting Stations.
Division 6.—Artillery Salutes.
Division 7.—Salutes in Boats.
Division 8.—Flags in Vessels and Boats.
Division 9.—Military Funerals.
Division 10.—Salutes at Civil Funerals and to Remains of Distinguished Foreigners.
Part IX.—Duties of Various Officers, Warrant, and non-commissioned officers—
Division 1.—District Commandants and Commanding Officers.
Division 2.—District Staff, Medical and Departmental Officers.
Division 3.—Artillery and Engineers.
Division 4.—Officers appointed to command Brigades.
Division 5.—Officers in Command of Fortresses and Defended Ports.
Division 6.—Commanding Officers.
Division 7.—Regimental Officers other than Commanding Officers.
Division 8.—Brigade and Regimental Staffs of Militia.
Division 9.—Instructional Staff with Militia Forces.
Division 10.—Militia Regimental Staff.
Division 11.—Militia Squadron, Battery and Company Staff.
Division 12.—Area Officers.
Division 13.—General.
Part X.—Enlistment, Transfers, Discharge, Medical Inspection, etc.—
Division 1.—Voluntary Enlistment.
Division 2.—Transfers—Militia Forces.
Division 3.—Re-engagement—Permanent Forces.
Division 4.—Discharge—Permanent Forces.
Division 5.—Discharge of Members of Militia Forces not liable to be trained under Part XII. of the Act.
Division 6.—Discharge of Members of Militia Forces liable to be trained under Part XII. of the Act.
Division 7.—Medical Examination.
Division 8.—Allotment to Arms and Corps—Militia Forces.
Division 9.—Evasion of Service.
Division 10.—Soldiers’ Accounts.
Division 11.—Soldiers’ Messing and Cooking.
Division 12.—Orderlies.
Division 13.—Married Soldiers—Permanent Forces.
Part XI.—Leave of Absence—
Division 1.—Permanent Forces.
Division 2.—Members of Militia Forces not liable to be trained under Part XII. of the Act.
Division 3.—Militia Forces liable to be trained under Part XII. of the Act.
Part XII.—Garrison and Regimental Duties—
Division 1.—Exchange of Duties.
Division 2.—Daily Duties.
Division 3.—Guards and Picquets.
Division 4.—Compliments by Guards.
Part XIII.—Discipline, Courts Martial, Military Arrest and Custody, Courts of Inquiry—
Division 1.—General.
Division 2.—Offences.
Division 3.—Arrest and Military Custody.
Division 4.—Investigation of Charges.
Division 5.—Summary and Minor Punishments.
Division 6.—Miscellaneous Provisions.
Division 7.—Drunkenness.
Division 8.—Courts Martial.
Division 9.—Framing Charges.
Division 10.—Preparation of Defence by accused Person.
Division 11.—Sentence.
Part XIII.—Discipline, Courts Martial, Military Arrest and Custody, Courts of Inquiry—
continued. Division 12.—Confirmation and Promulgation of Sentences.
Division 13.—Imprisonment and Detention.
Division 14.—Places of Detention and Public Prisons.
Division 15.—Management of Places of Detention.
Division 16.—Courts of Inquiry.
Division 17.—Desertion and Offences against Enlistment (Permanent Forces).
Part XIV.—Registration. Training and Efficiency—
Division 1.—Registration.
Division 2.—Places for Training.
Division 3.—Exemption from Training.
Division 4.—Disqualification.
Division 5.—Training—Militia Forces.
Division 6.—Musketry.
Division 7.—Efficiency—Militia Forces.
Division 8.—Non-efficients.
Part XV.—Correspondence, Returns, Reports, Documents, Books, and Records—
Division 1.—Correspondence and Records General).
Division 2.—Correspondence and Records (Departmental).
Division 3.—Brigade Office.
Division 4.—Reports of Casualties, &c.
Division 5.—Documents and Maps marked Secret, Confidential, or for Official use only.
Division 6.—Books and Records.
Division 7.—Record and Company Roll Book—
Militia and Senior Cadets (Section 146, Defence Act)
Part XVI.—Duties in regard to Barracks—
Division 1.—Inspection of Barracks.
Division 2.—Appropriation and Equipment.
Division 3.—Sanitation.
Division 4.—Precautions against Fire.
Division 5.—Re-appropriations, Sites for Buildings, and New Buildings.
Division 6.—Allotment of Quarters.
Division 7.—Miscellaneous Barrack and Camp Duties.
Division 8.—Messes.
Division 9.—Garrison and Regimental Institutes, Canteens, &c.
Part XVII.—Movements of Troops and Transport of Baggage—
Division 1.—Movements of Troops.
Division 2.—Transport of Baggage and Stores—
Camps and Manœuvres.
Part XVIII.—Departmental and Veterinary Corps—
Division 1.—Engineer and Railway Staff Corps.
Division 2.—Australian Survey Corps.
Division 3.—A.A. V.C., Horses, Forage, &c.
Division 4.—Ordnance Machinery Branch.
Division 5.—Provost Staff.
Part XIX.—Clothing, Medals, Decorations—
Division 1.—Clothing—Militia Forces.
Division 2.—Medals and Decorations.
Part XX.—Rifle Club Reserves and Rule Associations—
Division 1.—Rifle Club Reserves.
Division 2.—Rifle Associations.
Part XXI.—Senior Cadets—
Division 1.—Organisation.
Division 2.—Training.
Division 3.—Requirements for Efficiency.
Division 4.—Appointments and Promotion of Senior Cadets to be Non-commissioned Officers and Officers.
Division 5.—Officers generally.
Division 6.—Discipline.
Division 7.—Uniform and Equipment.
Division 8.—General.
Part XXII.—Miscellaneous—
Division 1.—Artillery Practice.
Division 2.—Protection against Domestic Violence.
Division 3.—Permanent Forces—Industrial Disputes.
Division 4.—Admission to National Defences.
Division 5.—Competitions—Militia Forces.
Division 6.—Reserve Forces List.
Division 7.—Use of privately-owned Land for Military Purposes and Payment of Compensation.
Division 8.—Requisitioning of Vehicles, &c.
Division 9.—Amalgamation of the New and Old Militia Forces.
Division 10.—Establishments—Militia Forces.
Division 11.—False representation of Authority.
Division 12.—Defence Contract and Supply Board.
“Head-Quarters” means the office of Central Administration.
“District Head-Quarters” means the office of a District Commandant.
“Military Decoration” means any medal, clasp, good conduct badge, or decoration.
“Superior Officer” when used in relation to a soldier, includes a Warrant Officer not holding a commission, and also a Non-commissioned Officer.
“The
Act” means the
“Rank,’’ unless it is otherwise stated, means, in the case of an Officer, the highest rank held by him when serving, whether substantive, brevet, temporary, or honorary.
“Substantive Rank” shall include all rank except brevet, honorary, local, and temporary.
The term “conduct sheet” or “conduct book,” without the prefix “regimental,” will be understood to mean the squadron, battery, or company conduct sheet or book.
The term “company” will be understood to mean squadron, battery, or company, as the case may be, according to the nomenclature of the portion of the Defence Force to which any regulation may be applied, and includes any corresponding subdivision, such as transport and supply column.
“Permanent Forces” means soldiers who are liable to render continuous military service for a term.
“Commanding Officer,” means—
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The “Equipment” means any article issued to a soldier for his use or intrusted to his care for military purposes.
“Proper military authority,” when used in relation to any power, duty, act, or matter, means such military authority as, in pursuance of the Act and Regulations, or the customs of the Service, exercises or performs that power or duty, or is concerned with that act or matter.
“Personal service” shall be held to mean the prescribed training under the provisions of section 127 of the Defence Act.
“The
Militia Forces” includes all members voluntarily enlisted (other than Permanent
and Volunteer Forces, and members of Rifle Clubs), and all persons who are
liable to be trained under sub-section (
“Imprisonment” includes detention.
A.M.R.—Australian Military Regulations.
A.M.F.—Australian Military Form.
A.M.B.—Australian Military Book.
D.A.—
M.O.—Military Order, issued by the Military Board.
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(2) The regular members shall be the Minister of State for Defence (President), the Treasurer, the First and Second Members of the Naval Board, the Inspector-General of the Military Forces, the Chief of the General Staff, and the Consulting Military Engineer.
(3) The consultative members, at a meeting of the Council, are such officers of the Citizen Forces and expert advisers as are summoned by the President to that meeting.
(4) Meetings of the Council shall be convened by the President. If the President is not present at a meeting, the Treasurer, if present, shall preside.
(5) Four of the regular members mentioned in sub-regulation (1), of whom one shall be the President or the Treasurer, shall constitute a quorum. Sub-committees of the Naval and Military Members shall be constituted as required, under the presidency of the Senior Officer detailed as a member of the sub-committee.
(6) The Permanent Head of the Department of Defence shall be the Secretary to the Council.
(7) Minutes shall be kept of the proceedings of all meetings of the Council. (Section 28, D.A.)
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a ) The general policy of the Naval and Military Defence of the Commonwealth.(
b ) Measures necessary for the defence of the Commonwealth in time of war.(
c ) The total expenditure on Defence, and its distribution.
The Chief of the General Staff (1st Military Member),
The Adjutant-General (2nd Military Member),
The Quartermaster-General (3rd Military Member),
The Chief of Ordnance (4th Military Member),
The Finance Member.
(2) The designation of these officers shall not thereby confer any seniority on the holders thereof.
(3) The Military Board, subject to the control of the Minister, is charged with the administration of all matters relating to the Military Forces.
(4) The Minister will assign their duties to the various Members of the Board. Each Member will be primarily and directly responsible to the Minister for the proper execution of the duties assigned to him.
(5) Unless otherwise directed, each Member of the Board will be responsible to the Minister for the drafting for submission of the Regulations dealing with his branch.
(6) The Members of the Board will allot the duties of their Directors.
(2) In the absence of the President the Senior Military Officer present will preside.
(3) Three members of the Board shall constitute a quorum.
(4) There will be a Secretary to the Board, who will be an officer of the Department of the Secretary, Department of Defence, and who will keep and distribute, as directed by the Minister, all agenda, minutes, and recommendations of the Military Board.
(5) The Military Board will consider and make recommendations with regard to all promotions in the Military Forces to ranks above the rank of Major as well as the appointment of Officers to be Commandants and to command Regiments and Corps.
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a ) Matters of routine are to be decided by and dealt with in the name of the responsible Member of the Military Board, who, if he thinks fit, may delegate this duty to his Directors.(
b ) Questions of principle will be decided by—(i) The Member of the Board responsible.
(ii) The Minister.
(iii) The Minister after obtaining the advice of the full Military Board in session—
according to their importance.
In the case of (iii)
précis of the questions are to be prepared and laid before the Board for discussion and decision.(
c ) A session of the Military Board will be convened by the Minister when necessary, and in his absence by the Secretary, Department of Defence.Four days before a meeting each Member will submit to the Minister the agenda of the subjects proposed by him for discussion, together with his recommendation thereon.
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d ) The recommendation on each subject discussed will be recorded and forwarded by the Secretary, Military Board, to the Secretary, Department of Defence, for submission to the Minister, and the recommendation before submission to the Minister shall be initialed by each Member of the Board present at the meeting, with a note signifying his concurrence or dissent.(
e ) Copies of the decisions and recommendations of the Board will be furnished to the Minister, each Member, the Secretary, and the Inspector-General, directly after the meeting.(
f ) The Secretary, Department of Defence, will arrange to circulate weekly to the above officers all agenda decisions and orders issued by the Minister, and the Members of the Board either on their own or Ministerial authority.(
g ) The duties assigned to each Member shall be—I. The Chief of the General Staff is charged with all preparation for war as follows:—
Organization for war. Training and instruction other than that allotted to the Adjutant-General. Recruit Training. Education and examination for first appointment and promotion of officers. Field operations and promulgation of operation orders. Schemes for manœuvres, including concentration. Allocation of funds for manœuvres and training. Plans of concentration for war. Preparation and maintenance of defence schemes. Military libraries. Intelligence. Drill books and manuals dealing with training and military instruction and war organization. Censorship. Musketry.
II. The Adjutant-General if charged with the enrolment, organization, and mobilization of the troops as follows:—
Registration, exemptions, medical inspection, organization, peace establishments, discipline, medical services and sanitation, distribution of units, editing and issuing orders other than operation orders and military books of regulations, editing and issuing mobilization orders, administration of all questions relating to Administrative and Instructional Staff, military clerks,
personnel, education, and examination of soldiers; appointments, promotion, retirement, posting, exchange and transfer of officers; mobilization ofpersonnel, military prisons and police and detention barracks, military and martial law, duties in aid of the civil power, casualties, discharges, desertion and fraudulent enlistment, medals, ceremonial, rifle clubs and reserves, cadets, chaplains, postal services.III. The Quartermaster-General is charged with the equipment and maintenance of the troops as follows:—
Dress, transport, and remounts, veterinary services, movements by land and sea, conveyance of stores, railways, appropriation
occupation and equipment of barracks; supply of food, forage, clothing, arms and ammunition, stores and equipment; mobilization arrangements connected with the above services; administration of corps dealing with the above services.
IV. The Chief of Ordnance is charged with the questions relating to armaments, fixed defences, and engineer services, as follows:—
Arrangements for the construction and maintenance of fortifications, barracks, store buildings, and ranges; patterns, provision, inspection, and maintenance of armaments and vehicles; patents and inventions; administration of the Staff and Permanent Force connected with the above; technical instruction of artillery and engineers, including schools; promulgation of changes in war material.
V. The Finance Member will be charged with Military Finance as follows:—
Consideration and compilation of parliamentary estimates; review of proposals for new expenditure, or the redistribution of the sums allotted to the different subheads of defence votes; financial advice; Treasury requirement; claims, compensation—death or injury.
VI. Under each member of the Military Board such Directors may be appointed as required.
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h ) The Members of the Board will assign in detail the duties of the Directors.
(2) The following officers shall be the members of the War Railway Council:—
The Senior or, other officer appointed by the Minister, of the Engineer and Railway Staff Corps of the Commonwealth railway system and of each State railway system, or, in his absence, another officer of the Corps detailed by him.
The Consulting Military Engineer.
Representatives of the Naval and Military Forces appointed by the Minister.
An officer detailed by the Military Board will act as Secretary.
(2) In order to prepare subjects for submission to the Council, and to arrange for movements of troops and materials, the President may consult members individually, and, with the concurrence of the Senior Officer of the Engineer and Railway Staff Corps of the States concerned, appoint sub-committees of officers of such Corps.
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a )Generally, to furnish advice on such railway matters as are referred to it by the Minister for Defence; and, in particular—(
b ) To determine the method of supplying information to, and obtaining it from, the various Railway Departments.(
c ) To suggest regulations and instructions for carrying out movements of troops.(
d ) To suggest the method of organizing Railway Transport Officers in time of war, as intermediaries between the various railway authorities and the troops.(
e ) To consider the question of extra sidings, loading platforms, &c., and proposals towards unification of gauges.(
f ) To suggest the organization and system of training railway troops, when the development of universal training supplies sufficientpersonnel, whose ordinary employment is railway work.
(2) In time of war the duties of the War Railway Council shall be, in addition to the matters set forth in sub-regulation (1) of this Regulation, to advise on questions of mobilization.
(2) He will make such inspections, inquiries, and reports as may be required from time to time by the Military Board, and, annually, before the 31st May, he will prepare a general report
for the information of the Military Board. For these purposes he is to arrange for the examination of the actual effect of the systems of classification, enrolment, enlistment, registration, and organization of the Cadets, the Permanent and Militia Forces, and their transport; for the inspection of their training and efficiency, as well as of the suitability of their arms, armament, and equipment, the condition of the fortifications and defences; and generally to investigate the state of preparedness for war of the Military Forces. (Section 9, D.A.)
1st Military District.—The State of Queensland, together with that part of the State of New South Wales including the towns of Casino, Lismore, and Grafton, known as the 12th Battalion Area.
2nd Military District.—The State of New South Wales, excluding the 12th Battalion Area above mentioned, and excluding the town of Broken Hill, Torrowangee, and Silverton, and excluding those parts of the 44th Battalion Area which include the towns of Corowa, South Corowa, Mulwala, Moama, Mathoura, and Deniliquin, and together with those parts of the 57th Battalion Area in the State of Victoria, which include the towns of Wodonga, Barnawartha, Chiltern, and Tallangatta.
3rd Military District.—The State of Victoria, together with those parts of the 44th Battalion Area above mentioned, and excluding those parts of the 57th Battalion Area above mentioned.
4th Military District.—The State of South Australia, together with the towns of Broken Hill, Torrowangee, and Silverton, in New South Wales.
5th Military District.—The State of Western Australia.
6th Military District.—The State of Tasmania.
(2) The exact boundaries of the Military Districts shall be as approved by the Military Board, and shown on maps issued by District Commandants.
Order.
Administrative and Instructional Staff.
The Corps of Staff Cadets.
The Regiments of Light Horse.
The Royal Australian Artillery Regiment.*
Batteries of Australian Field Artillery.
Companies of Australian Garrison Artillery.
The Royal Australian Engineers.
The Australian Engineers.
The Australian Flying Corps.
The Infantry Battalions.
The Australian Army Service Corps.
The Australian Survey Corps.
The Australian Army Medical Corps.
The Australian Army Veterinary Corps.
The Australian Army Ordnance Corps.
The Reserve Forces.
The Military Cadet Corps.
(2) Different units of the same Arm take precedence in accordance with their numerical succession, except that a unit of the Permanent Forces shall always take precedence of a unit of the same Arm not forming part of the Permanent Forces, and in like manner a unit of the Militia Forces shall take precedence of a unit of the same Arm of the Volunteer Forces. Units which are not included in any numerical succession will take precedence by Military Districts and in accordance with the order given in the authorized Military Forces List.
(3) On parade or for the purposes of manœuvring, units will be distributed and drawn up in the mode which the officer in command of such parade or manœuvres may deem most convenient.
(2) An officer appointed to command, or an officer appointed second in command of a regiment in the Military Forces, shall exercise command over any other officers serving
* The Royal Australian Artillery Regiment (if mounted), and the Batteries of Australian Field Artillery (if allotted to units of Light Horse) on ceremonial parade with their guns, to take the right, and march at the head of the Light Horse Regiments.
therein,
irrespectively of the date of commission. All other officers doing duty with
their regiments shall take regimental rank according to their dates of
appointment in that rank to such regiments, whether promoted on full pay or
appointed from half-pay; and all officers serving together with officers of
other corps shall take rank according to the dates of their respective
appointments to that rank in the Military Forces. Should two officers of the
same rank have been gazetted to such rank with the same date, their precedence
shall, except in the case of an officer appointed to command a regiment,
battalion, or corps, be determined by the date of their previous commissions,
or in the case of first commissions by the order in which their names appear in
the
(2) In the case of a District Commandant being temporarily absent from his district, or unable for temporary reasons to perform his duties, the functions of his command may be administered by the senior or other staff officer present, subject to the approval of the Military Board.
(3) In the event of the office of District Commandant becoming vacant, the senior or other staff officer in the district may be appointed by the Governor-General to temporarily administer the functions of command, pending the appointment of a successor to the District Commandant. (Sec. 9, D.A.)
(4) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Inspector-General shall be entitled to assume command at any parade of the Military Forces not being a parade held in time of war.
(2) Officers appointed to act temporarily in a higher rank shall take rank among themselves, while so acting, according to the dates of their temporary appointments, but as junior to all officers of the same grade having substantive rank.
(3) The rank of Brigadier-General shall be local or temporary only.
(2) Officers of the Australian Army Medical Corps will not be entitled to the presidency of courts-martial, nor will they exercise any military command outside their corps, except over such officers and soldiers as may be attached thereto for duty, and over all patients in military hospitals.
Military Forces. | Naval Forces. | |||
Military Branch. | Other Branches. | |||
1. Major-Generals.................... | Rear-Admiral | |||
2. Brigadier-Generals |
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3. Colonels................................. | Captains over 3 years | Paymasters-in-Chief.
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4. Lieutenant-Colonels | Captains under years | Engineer Captains under 8 years’ seniority.
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Commanders, but junior | Staff Commanders........................ Fleet-Surgeons...............................
Fleet Paymasters............................
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5. Majors.................................... | Lieutenant............................. Commanders........................ | Staff-Surgeons.
Staff Paymasters. Senior Instructors. Engineer Lieutenants. Commanders. Paymasters, but junior. | ||
6. Captains................................. | Lieutenants........................... | Surgeons. Secretaries to Commodores, 2nd Class. Naval Instructors.
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7. Lieutenants............................ | Sub-Lieutenants.................. | Assistant Paymasters under 4 years’ seniority. Engineer Sub-Lieutenants. | ||
8. 2nd Lieutenants.................... | Chief Gunner....................... Chief Boatswain Chief Carpenter | |||
| Gunners................................. Boatswains........................... | Carpenters Paymasters’ Clerks. |
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Midshipmen......................... | ............................................ But junior. | |||
Officers of the Consular Service will rank with officers of the Military Forces as follows:—
Agents and Consuls-General............................................ | with, but after | Major-Generals. |
Consuls-General................................................................. | „ „ | Brigadier-Generals. |
Consuls................................................................................. | „ „ | Colonels. |
Vice-Consuls....................................................................... | „ „ | Majors. |
Consular Agents................................................................. | „ „ | Captains. |
(2) Applications of candidates, in accordance with Regulation 40, will be received by District Commandants, who will forward the same to the Military Board. When forwarding applications, District Commandants will state their opinion of the fitness of each candidate for appointment.
(3) Candidates will be informed of the Military Board’s approval of their nomination or otherwise to undergo the examination prescribed.
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a ) Officers of the Militia Forces, provided they are between the ages of 19 and 27 years at the date of holding the examination.(
b ) Warrant officers, non-commissioned officers, and men who have served for three years in the Defence Force, provided they are between the ages of 19 and 27 years at the date of holding the examination.(
c ) Candidates who have served in a campaign, provided they are between the ages of 19 and 27 years at the date of holding the examination.(
d ) Other candidates, provided they are between the ages of 18 and 23 years at the date of holding the examination.
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a ) Served as a pupil for three years in engineering workshops, during which one year shall have been spent in the drafting office; or(
b ) Served for three years as an articled pupil, or its equivalent, in a reputable civil engineering, electrical engineering, or architectural firm, or in a Government engineering or architectural office; or(
c ) Completed the three years’ course for a degree of Bachelor of Engineering, or its equivalent, in any university or technical school.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in these Regulations, candidates who have not had the opportunity of working in the drafting office may be considered eligible on demonstrating that they are draughtsmen and accustomed to the execution and copying of technical plans and drawings.
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a )Officers, warrant officers, non-commissioned officers and men of the Militia Forces, provided they are between the ages of 20 and 30 years at the date of holding the educational examination.(
b ) Warrant and non-commissioned officers and men of the Permanent Forces who have served for two years, provided they are between the ages of 20 and 35 years at the date of holding the educational examination.(
c ) Ex-members of the Imperial Regular Army and of the Permanent Forces of, Australia, provided they are between the ages of 20 and 35 years at the date of holding the educational examination.(
d ) Other candidates, provided they are between the ages of 20 and 30 years at the date of holding the educational examination.
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a ) are between the ages of 20 and 45 years;(
b ) are certified by a Medical Board to be physically qualified;(
c ) have had two years’ experience as a topographer in the field; and(
d ) have had two years’ experience in triangulation, either in the Australian Survey Corps or in a similar corps in another part of the Empire, or as a surveyor or assistant to a surveyor,
will be eligible for appointment as Lieutenant to the Australian Survey Corps.
(2) Successful candidates will, in the case of the Administrative and Instructional Staff, be appointed for six months on probation. At the end of this period their appointments may be confirmed on the recommendation of the District Commandant.
the Royal Australian Garrison Artillery in the 2nd Military District, and Sydney will be regarded as the place at which he first takes up his permanent appointment.
(2) The qualifications of graduates will be shown in the Gradation List of the Permanent Forces thus:—
F.A. = Field Artillery.
G.A. = Garrison Artillery.
E. = Engineers.
L.H. = Light Horse.
I. = Infantry.
(2) They will carry out their duties under the orders of the Principal Veterinary Officer or Senior Veterinary Officer of the district.
(3) They will assist the Principal Veterinary Officer or Senior Veterinary Officer in his duties, and will, under his direction, carry out all veterinary duties in regard to horses on the permanent military establishment.
(2) Applications from candidates will be received by District Commandants, who will forward the same to the Military Board. When forwarding applications, District Commandants will state their opinion of the fitness of each candidate for appointment. Candidates will be informed of the Military Board’s approval of their nomination or otherwise to undergo the examination prescribed.
(3) To be eligible for appointment, a candidate must be between the ages of 21 and 40 years, be certified by a Medical Board to be physically qualified, and be in possession of a degree or diploma of a University or other institution approved by the Military Board.
(2) First appointments will be made, to the rank of Lieutenant. A successful, candidate will be appointed for twelve (12) months on probation. During this period he will be required to pass a qualifying examination. The subjects and scope of the examination shall be as authorized from time to time by the Military Board.
(3) Officers of the Australian Army Veterinary Corps (Permanent) will not be permitted the right of private practice.
(2) The Aviation Instructional Staff may be composed of such officers, honorary officers, and other ranks as may be laid down from time to time, and their duties shall be as prescribed by the Military Board.
(3) The appointment of Officers to the Aviation Instructional Staff shall be made to the rank of Lieutenant, provisionally, upon such conditions as may be approved by the Military Board from time to time.
(4) Officers shall be required to pass a qualifying examination for confirmation of their provisional appointments within eighteen months.
(5) The syllabus of the qualifying examination shall be as approved by the Military Board.
(2) Such Warrant and Non-Commissioned Officers will be discharged from the Instructional Staff (W. and N.C.O.’s), and will be appointed temporarily and for a specified period to the Administrative and Instructional Staff (Officers) supernumerary to the Establishment thereof.
(2) Examinations shall be competitive as well as qualifying.
(3) Successful candidates receiving an equality of marks will be appointed in the order of seniority they held at the time of the examination.
(4) Candidates who qualify, but for whom vacancies do not exist, shall be eligible for appointment, in the order in which they pass the examination, to any vacancy that may occur until the date of holding the next annual examination.
(5) The Syllabus of Examination and Instructions to Boards of Examination will be as authorized in Military Orders.
(2) For the ranks of Major and higher, two-thirds of the marks at least shall be allotted to practical tests in work, such as would have to be performed in war.
(2) For purposes of this Regulation, officers in their respective ranks shall be graded as follows:—
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(2) In time of war, and in accordance with the second proviso of Section 11a of the Act, when it is found impracticable to carry out the system of promotion by competitive examination, persons may be appointed and promoted provisionally as Officers, but shall be required to pass a qualifying examination within eighteen months of such provisional appointment or promotion.
Provided that in time of war such Officers may continue to hold their provisional appointments for such further time (not exceeding a period of eighteen months beyond the termination of the war) as may be approved by the Military Board. (Sees. 11a, 14, 15, D.A.)
A Regiment of Light Horse,
The Field Artillery in a Military District,
The Garrison Artillery of a Fortress or Defended Port,
Each branch of the Engineers in any Military District,
The Flying Corps in any Military District,
A Battalion of Infantry,
The Army Service Corps in any Military District,
The Army Medical Corps in any Military District,
Each Departmental Corps in any Military’ District,
there shall be kept a seniority list of all the Officers of the unit, and vacancies for promotion will be filled by those within the unit if qualified, but in the case of Squadrons, Companies, or other similar parts of a unit which are detached at some distance from the rest of their Regiment or Corps, promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, Captain, and Major will be limited to vacancies in the Squadron, Company, or other similar part of a unit.
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Provided that, on the recommendation of a District Commandant, an officer may at any time be transferred to the Unattached List or to the Reserve of Officers, if considered necessary in the interests of the service.
(2) In the event of there being no officer in a unit qualified to fill a vacancy in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel the term for that rank may be extended for a further period not exceeding two years.
(3) Officers who have completed the maximum term of service in their respective ranks as above specified, and are not then promoted in their unit, shall be transferred to the Unattached List.
(4) The limitations in this regulation may be waived, on the recommendation of the District Commandant.
(5) The period during which any officer on the active list of the Militia Forces has held the rank of Second Lieutenant will be counted as service as Lieutenant for the purposes of this Regulation.
(2) In other cases, where exceptional hardship would otherwise be caused, an officer may be allowed to count less than twelve years’ service as a compliance with the Act, subject to the special approval of the Military Board.
(2) When the candidate has previously held a commission, a certificate from his last Commanding Officer will be forwarded as to whether his services were satisfactory, and whether his retirement or resignation arose from any matter affecting his character or efficiency. A candidate may be appointed provisionally, pending the production of the aforesaid certificate. When the candidate has previously served in the ranks of the Naval or Military Forces, his discharge certificate will accompany the recommendation.
This Regulation shall not apply to Commanding Officers of squadrons, batteries, companies, or other similar units.
(2) Members of the Permanent Forces are not under any circumstances to hold such a position.
(2) A Captain, or Lieutenant, who has passed for promotion to the rank of Captain, appointed Adjutant, may be confirmed in such appointment after a period of six months on the certificate of the Commanding Officer and District Commandant, that he has satisfactorily carried out the duties of his appointment.
(3) A Lieutenant provisionally appointed Adjutant, who has not qualified for promotion, will be required to so qualify within a period of twelve months of such appointment, and may then be confirmed in the manner prescribed in sub-regulation (2) of this Regulation.
(2) An officer will not be permitted to retain the appointment of Adjutant for a longer period than twelve months after promotion to Field rank.
(2) An officer seconded from his unit for attachment to, or transferred from the Unattached List for service with, the Intelligence Section of the General Staff will be posted to the Intelligence Section with his Commonwealth Military Forces rank and seniority.
(3) An Officer will serve with the Intelligence Section for a maximum period of two years, unless the Chief of the General Staff recommends that the period of service be prolonged for a further period of two years. After an officer has returned to duty with his unit for a period of at least one year he may again be attached to the Intelligence Section for a maximum period of two years only.
(4) On promotion he will be given the option of returning to his unit or remaining with the Intelligence Section.
(5)When the command of a unit becomes vacant and the next senior officer is serving with the Intelligence Section, he will, as a rule, return to his unit to take command. If he elects to remain with the Intelligence Section, he will thereupon relinquish any claim to appointment to fill that vacancy in the command of his unit, and on the completion of his term with the Intelligence Section he may be transferred to the Unattached List.
(6) An officer whose services in the Intelligence Section are no longer required or who does not satisfactorily perform his duties in the Section will be returned to duty with his unit as a supernumerary pending absorption, or may be transferred to the Unattached List.
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a ) The appointment to be purely honorary, and to confer no right of command.(
b ) No expense to the public to be entailed by such appointment.
(2) No Officer of the Permanent Forces, unless re-appointed, shall hold the same position on the Head-Quarters Staff, a District Head-Quarters Staff, or the Staff of the Royal Military College of Australia, or a Military School, for a longer period than four years.
(3) This regulation shall also apply to Officers holding positions as above, as if it had been made to come into force from the date of their appointments to such positions.
(2) No Officer will be promoted to
any rank higher than that of Major until he has passed in accordance with
section 21 (
Provided, however, that in time of war, if the Chief of the General Staff certifies to the Minister that it is impracticable to conduct such courses of instruction as are referred to in this Regulation, an Officer of the Military Forces may, upon the recommendation-of his Commanding Officer, be promoted without having passed those courses.
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Period of six working days—Minimum, 43 hours.
Field Sketching—
The solution of simple tactical problems, both indoors and in the field, special attention being paid to the work required in the field of the various arms to which officers under instruction belong.
No examination will be held at these Schools, certificates being awarded on the whole of the officer’s work during the School.
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For Captains of the Royal Australian Garrison Artillery and Fortress, Electric and Submining Companies Engineers.
Period of six working days.
The work of each arm in connexion with the approved scheme of defence for the defended port concerned:—
Principles of Coast Defence.
Employment of Coast Defence Artillery, Electric Light, and Submarine Mines.
Organization of a Battery Command.
Manning and Sighting a Fire Command.
Identification of Ships.
Landward Defences for Forts, &c.
Tactical Schemes in connexion with the defence of the Fortress Area, &c.
No examination will be held at these Schools, certificates being awarded on the whole of the officer’s work during the School.
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For Majors of all arms (except Medical, Veterinary, Ordnance, and Departmental Services)
Period of four working days.
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Exemptions will be granted to officers who are Staff College graduates, and to officers of the Royal Australian Garrison Artillery holding First Class School of Gunnery Staff Course
Certificates, either from Shoeburyness or the Commonwealth School of Gunnery, if obtained within five years of date of School.
(2) Provided that when recommending a promotion by which an Officer will be superseded, the Officer submitting such recommendation will state the circumstances which have induced him to make his recommendation, and also that the Officer to be superseded has been informed.
(3) Specially meritorious service on the General or Administrative Staff may, on the recommendation of the Military Board, be recognised by accelerated promotion. The accelerated promotion will usually be granted in the form of a brevet up to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and above that rank by selection for the substantive rank of Colonel.
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a ) Authorized establishment,(
b ) Unattached List.
In other cases nominations will be sent by the head of the denomination, or the recognised governing body, direct to the Commandant, for submission to the Military Board.
4th Class, with relative rank of Captain.
3rd Class, with relative rank of Major.
2nd Class, with relative rank of Lt.-Colonel.
1st Class, with relative rank of Colonel
Anglican,
Roman Catholic,
Presbyterian,
Methodist,
(2) A Chaplain-General will be the head of the denomination concerned, or a clergyman recommended by the recognised governing or consultative body of such denomination.
Anglican,
Roman Catholic,
Presbyterian,
Methodist.
(2) Senior Chaplains for other denominations may be appointed on the recommendation of the Military Board, subject to provision being made for their appointments on the authorized establishment.
(3) A Senior Chaplain shall either be—
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a ) the head of the denomination in the Military District; or(
b ) such other clergyman as he or the recognised denominational governing or consultative body may recommend.
(4) On the termination of his appointment, a Senior Chaplain may be absorbed in the first vacancy on the authorized establishment, with his classification governed by his length of service, or, if there be no vacancy on the authorized establishment, he may be transferred to the Unattached List pending a vacancy.
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a ) to the 3rd Class, after ten years’ service as Chaplain;(
b ) to the 2nd Class, after fifteen years’ service as Chaplain, including five years in the 3rd Class;(
c ) to the 1st Class, after twenty years’ service as Chaplain, five of which must have been in the 2nd Class.
Provided that a clergyman appointed Chaplain-General may be appointed a 1st Class Chaplain without having previously served as a Chaplain.
A Clergyman or a Chaplain with less than 20 years’ qualifying service, appointed Senior Chaplain, may be granted the temporary classification of 1st Class Chaplain whilst holding such appointment.
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(2) A Chaplain on the establishment who has not performed any duty for two years in succession will be retired, provided that in special cases this provision may be relaxed on the recommendation of the Senior Chaplain of his denomination and the Commandant.
(3) In the event of a Chaplain on the establishment retiring, the fact shall be notified by the Senior Chaplain of the denomination concerned to the Commandant, and a new nomination will be submitted to fill the vacancy.
(4) The appointment of a Chaplain who ceases to reside in Australia will be terminated.
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a ) Date of the visit.(
b ) Description of pass and date for which it is available.(
c ) Name of the officer issuing the pass and date of issue.
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As soon as the particulars have been recorded in the case of a
“The Governor-General may give a general or particular authority to the Defence Forces, or any part thereof, to enter upon, and use any lands for training manœuvres, or other naval or military exercises or purposes, and compensation shall be made, in the manner prescribed, for any damage or loss sustained by the owner or occupier of the lands, by reason of such entry or use.”
will include full description of the area boundaries, making due allowance for a “margin of safety,” both as regards the extent of proclaimed areas and the periods of utilization.
(2) The boundaries of proclaimed areas should follow roads or natural features, rather than imaginary lines, so that they may be easily identified. Areas should not usually be proclaimed for a longer period than three months at a time. Applications must reach Head-quarters at least two months before the date fixed for the camp or military exercise.
(3) District Commandants will detail an Officer to interview all owners or occupiers of land within the procliamed area prior to the arrival of troops, and will insure that copies of the proclamation reach all concerned, at least fourteen days before it is proposed to use the area. This Officer must—
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a ) Warn all land-owners or occupiers as to the hours and times at which stock should be kept in places of security. A person who, without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with this warning will not be entitled to compensation for any damage caused to his property by reason of his default.(
b ) Notify that private valuation of damage by valuers will not be accepted, and that the Military Authorities will only deal direct with land-owners, not with their agents.(
c ) Notify land-owners or occupiers by leaving printed or typewritten notices warning them of the need to yard valuable stock (mares in foal, &c.). Landowners can then apply to have certain paddocks placed out of bounds if need be.
(4) All proclamations under section 69 of the Defence Act submitted by the District Commandant should distinctly prescribe:—
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a ) The authority to whom claims should be submitted.(
b ) The period within which claims should be submitted.
(2) This Board will be convened in
accordance with Regulation 727
(3) Claims for compensation will be investigated during or immediately after the camp or manœuvre, the amount to be paid will be assessed and the claim passed to the District Paymaster’s representative, who will pay same.
(4) Individual claims for compensation, not exceeding £20, approved by the Board, and agreed to by the owner, may be paid by the District Paymaster’s representative during or at the conclusion of the camp. Individual claims in excess of £20 will be referred to the Military Board, with recommendation; a full statement of the case being forwarded with the application immediately after the camp.
(5) Claims which cannot be settled by agreement between the claimant and the Board will be referred with recommendation of the Military Board, as in sub-regulation (4) of this Regulation.
(6) Claims will be made out on the
annexed
(7) The President of the Board will keep a careful record of all damage reported and claims recommended for payment, and will send same to the District Paymaster,
(2) The Officer who interviews the owners or occupiers is responsible for informing the President of the Board in good time of any paddocks, inclosures, or localities from which the troops should be excluded. The President of the Board will cause such localities to be clearly marked by red flags before the troops arrive, and the fact notified in orders to all concerned.
(2) Every endeavour must be made to insure that the individuals responsible pay for wilful, neglectful, or unnecessary damage, such as the picking of fruit, or cutting gaps in a red-flagged paddock fence; or cutting unnecessary gaps in close proximity to gates, or loss caused by leaving gates open.
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a ) Damage and loss of fruit, garden produce, or farm produce from allotments, gardens, orchards, or farm lands.(
b ) Cutting or damage to trees.(
c ) Destruction or damage to hedges and fences of all kinds.(
d ) Nuisances in woods, &c.(
e ) Officers’ batmen (especially when in charge of their masters’ horses).(
f ) Improper restoration of latrines, ashpits, &c.(
g ) Clearing up of camps.(
h ) Leaving broken glass.(
i ) Duty of Commanding Officers, to report damage done by troops or civilians.(
k ) The closing of gates or openings into fenced areas.
(2) Gaps cut in fences must be temporarily closed after use, in order to prevent stock straying, and care must be taken to shut gates for the same reason. Parties for this purpose will be told off prior to manœuvres commencing. Officers failing to do this will be held personally responsible for damage.
(3) As the employees of civilian contractors often commit damage, especially in respect to broken bottles and glass, contractors should be cautioned on such points, and a penalty clause inserted in their contracts.
(2) When preparing camping grounds, only authorized service experts, such as Engineers, &c., should be employed in cutting wire fences, or opening gaps in natural fences, and damage so done should be repaired at the earliest practicable moment.
(3) The senior Officer on the spot should, when practicable, detail the Engineers to repair damage done by troops. When this would materially interfere with the training of the troops, or for other reasons it cannot be arranged, it may be found economical to make a contract with a fencer or carpenter to repair all the minor damages.
(4) In every case where damage has been done to hedges and fences, it will be immediately reported to the President of the Board, giving nature, date, place, time, &c., and he will at once inspect the damages, and note them for record.
(2) Officers in charge of these
must obtain permission in writing to use the land required,
(3) In the case of any unforeseen or accidental damage occurring, for which it seems just that payment be made, full particulars, with a recommendation, will be immediately referred to the District Commandant, who may authorize the payment of compensation not exceeding a sum of £20; where claims exceed £20, the District Commandant will forward same, and full particulars thereof, to Head-Quarters.
Provided that if the lands on which such damages are alleged to have been sustained are situated more than 50 miles from District Head-Quarters, notice of a claim may be recognised if posted to the Commandant within seven days after the date on which the damages are alleged to have been sustained, although not received by the Commandant until after such seven days.
(2) When notice is received that
damages will be claimed, Commandants (except in cases where the amount claimed
does not exceed £5, or where the Commandant for any reason considers that it is
unnecessary to obtain full particulars) will request the claimant to fill in a
claim in the
(3) The District Commandant may, if he sees fit, authorize the payment of compensation not exceeding £5 in any case of damage in which the officer in command of the Australian Survey Corps in the District certifies that the damages were caused in the course of military surveys by a member of the Australian Survey Corps, or person employed in connexion therewith, and that the amount to be paid is reasonable compensation for the damages.
(4) The District Commandant may, if he sees fit, authorize the payment of compensation not exceeding £20 in any case of damage in which an officer appointed by the Commandant to make inquiry certifies that the damages were caused by a member of the Australian Survey Corps, or person employed in connexion therewith, and that the amount to be paid is reasonable compensation for the damages.
(5) Cases in which the amount to be paid exceeds £20 will be referred to a Board of Inquiry for report, and the proceedings of the Board will be forwarded to Head-Quarters.
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MILITARY MANŒUVRES OR SURVEYS.
Particulars of Claim for Damages.
Claims in respect of damage done by troops must be submitted to the officer in charge of the camp within 72 hours of the commission of the damage, and, in the case of damage done by Military Survey Party, to the District Commandant within seven days.
Persons making false or fraudulent claims for damage will render themselves liable to be proceeded against according to law.
1. From (name of claimant in full, and whether owner or tenant) ———————————
2. Farm or pastoral property, or other description...... ———————————
3. Full postal address............................................... ———————————
4. Place where damage occurred............................... ———————————
5. Date upon which damage occurred....................... ———————————
6. Nature of damage, specified fully, and in order for easy identification. (If space is insufficient, the statement can be put upon a separate sheet of paper)................................................. ———————————
7. Amount of compensation claimed, and how assessed ———————————
8. Names of any witnesses to damage....................... ———————————
9. Name of owner or landlord from whom the land is held ———————————
10. Nature of tenancy, annual or otherwise................ ———————————
11. Date of expiration of lease or agreement.............. ———————————
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Signature of Claimant———————————
Signed at————————————————
Date——————————————————
For Use of Compensation Board only.
*Amount of compensation assessed in respect of:—
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* In case the compensation cannot be immediately assessed, an entry will be made “Not yet assessed.”
(2) Upon receipt by any person of such an authority from the Minister, that person or any person thereto authorized in writing by him may inspect any articles or animals of the kind enumerated in the said authority, and may, in pursuance of the said authority, by writing under his hand, require any owner of any of such articles or animals to deliver them up to him, and, in the event of the owner failing so to do within the time limited in the requisition, may seize the said articles or animals.
(3) The compensation payable to an owner in respect of any articles (other than molybdenite, wolfram, or scheelite) or animals requisitioned in pursuance of this Regulation shall, in default of agreement, be assessed, in the first instance, by a Board of three persons appointed by the Minister, and be determined by the Minister, subject to an appeal to any Judge of the Supreme Court of a State, who may finally determine the amount of compensation, and make such order as to costs as he thinks fit.
(4) The compensation payable to an owner in respect of any molybdenite, wolfram, or scheelite requisitioned in pursuance of this Regulation shall, in default of agreement, be assessed by the Minister on the basis of the agreement made between His Majesty’s Government and the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia for the acquisition of molybdenite, wolfram, and scheelite.
(2) If the vessel in respect of which any warlike stores have been tendered for carriage leaves the port without shipping such stores, the master, owner, charterer, and agent of the vessel shall severally be liable to a penalty not exceding Twenty pounds, unless such master, owner, charterer, or agent proves to the satisfaction of the Court that the vessel was not reasonably able to carry such stores.
(3) Any authorized officer may detain any vessel which he believes is about to depart from any port without shipping any warlike stores which have been tendered for carriage, and keep her so detained until such warlike stores have been shipped thereon, or until he is satisfied that the vessel is not reasonably able to carry such stores.
(4) The owner of the vessel or the charterer, if the vessel is under charter, shall be entitled to be paid freight at such reasonable rate as is agreed upon, or, in default of agreement, is settled by arbitration.
(5) In this regulation “authorized officer” means any officer charged with the duty of shipping warlike stores for use of any naval or military force, and includes any officer appointed by the Minister to be an authorized officer for the purposes of this Regulation; and “warlike stores” means food, clothing, equipment, forage, and other stores for use by any naval or military force.
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a )Soldiers serving in the Militia on 30th June, 1912, may continue to serve until the termination of their term of enlistment;(
b ) Warrant and non-commissioned officers of the Militia and bandsmen may, subject to the approval of the Military Board, be permitted to re-enlist on and after 1st July, 1912; and(
c ) In units and detachments of Light Horse, situated at places where no training is conducted under Part XII. of the Act, or when there is an insufficient number of persons liable for training who are willing to serve as Light Horse, soldiers may be re-enlisted, and persons not liable to be trained may be voluntarily enlisted, under sections 35 and 38, inclusive, of the Act, as directed by the Military Board, in order to maintain the Peace Establishment.
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An Officer representing the Secretary, Department of Defence, to be, appointed by the Minister, who shall be Chairman of the Board.
An Officer of the Quartermaster-General’s Branch at Head-Quarters, to be appointed by the Minister, who shall be Deputy Chairman of the Board.
A Permanent Officer of the Department of Defence to be appointed by the Minister.
(2) In addition to the Regular Members, the Minister may appoint from time to time any officers or persons to act as consultative members on the Board.
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a ) On receipt of a contract demand from the Quartermaster-General, duly approved by the Minister, or such Officer as may be authorized to approve on his behalf, to arrange for the purchase of the supplies enumerated therein by inviting public tenders, or by quotation, or otherwise.(
b ) To direct District Commandants as to the manner in which Provisions, Forage, Fuel, Cartage, Camp and Barrack Services (except Engineer Services), and supplies which are to be purchased within the limits of the District concerned, are to be arranged for.(
c ) To arrange contracts or supplies for Government Factories and the Royal Military College, when directed by the Secretary, Department of Defence.
Provided, however, that no tender or quotation shall be accepted nor purchase made by the Contract and Supply Board, the amount of which exceeds £2,500 unless the Minister’s approval be first obtained, save and except that in the case of contracts for Provision, Forage, Fuel, and Cartage, which are to be ordered as required during a specified period, the Contract and Supply Board may, without reference to the Minister, accept any tender or quotation, the value of the supplies to be obtained under which, based on the estimated requirements, does not exceed £10,000.
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