Australian Military Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1941. No. 246.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1941.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Defence Act 1903-1941.

Dated this twenty ninth day of October, 1941.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for the Army.

 

Amendments of the Australian Military Regulations. 

Enrolment of persons liable to serve in the Citizen forces in time of war.

1. Regulation 141a of the Australian Military Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (8.) the words “(a) changes his address; or”; and

(b) by inserting, after that sub-regulation, the following sub-regulation:—

“(8a.) Every person to whom sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation relates who changes his address shall, within 30 days after the change, either personally or in writing sent by post, furnish notification of his new address—

(a) if his former address and his new address are in the same training area—to the area officer of that area;

(b) if his former address and his new address are each in a training area but not in the same area—to the area officer of either area; or

(c) if either his former address or his new address is in a training area but the other is not—to the area officer of that training area”.

Rank and command in the A.A.L.D.

2. Regulation 576 of the Australian Military Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (2) the word “lieutenant-colonel” and inserting in its stead the word “brigadier”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1941.

  Statutory Rules 1927, No. 149, as amended by Statutory Rules 1928, Nos. 23, 28 and 126; 1929, No. 123; 1930, Nos. 26, 67 and92; 1931, No. 13; 1932, Nos. 80, 87 and 125; 1933, Nos. 49 and 77; 1934, Nos. 26, and 80; 1935, Nos. 99 and 109; 1936, Nos. 21, 44 and 100; 1937, No. 45; 1938, Nos. 75, 90 and 93; 1939, Nos. 31, 51, 58, 115, 123, 134, 100 and 173: 1940, Nos. 2, 16, 29, 59, 150, 188, 184, 185, 186, 199, 237, 252, 272 and 273; and 1941, Nos. 3, 4, 14, 43, 135, 153, 155, and 205.

5186.—20/25.9.1941.—Price 3d.

Other ranks saluting.

3. Regulation 693 of the Australian Military Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulations:—

“(1) W.O.’s, N.C.O.’s, and private soldiers in uniform at all times—

(a) when about to address, or upon being addressed by, an officer whom they know to be such, and at the conclusion of that address; and

(b) on parade (except during an exercise in the field, or when under the immediate control of a superior, or when precluded by the nature of their duties from so doing), when passing or being passed by an officer whom they are able to recognize as such,

shall salute that officer.

“(1a) For the purposes of the last preceding sub-regulation ‘an officer’ means a commissioned officer (whether in uniform or not) belonging to any of His Majesty’s Naval, Military or Air Forces”.

 

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