Australian Military Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1935. No. 109

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REGULATION UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1934.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Defence Act 1903-1934.

Dated this thirteenth day of November, 1935.

(Sgd.) ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Defence.

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Amendment of Australian Military Regulations. 

Regulation 819 of the Australian Military Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Distance to be kept under D.A. 72.

819. — (1.) The prescribed distance under D.A. 72 from any battery or gun engaged in artillery practice, on a land range shall be the distance from the gun or the nearest gun of the battery to any point on the perimeter of a rectangular area notified in accordance with sub-regulation (2.) of this regulation, but not exceeding in length 20,000 yards in the direction of the intended line of fire of the battery or gun and in breadth 3 miles.

(2.) The area mentioned in sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation shall be notified (by the formation &c. commander to whose command the persons carrying out the practice belong, or if there be more than one such commander the senior of them), by advertisement in a newspaper or newspapers circulating in the district in which the battery or gun is to be engaged in practice, not less than 24 hours before the practice begins.

(3.) The prescribed distance under D.A. 72 from any gun engaged in artillery practice seaward shall be the distance from the gun to any point on the perimeter of an area which has been defined and notified in accordance with sub-regulation (4.) of this regulation, and which lies wholly within a figure bounded seaward by the arc of a circle, having the gun as its centre and a radius of twenty nautical miles, and shoreward by lines extending from the gun on each side to points at high water mark distant twenty nautical miles from the gun.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1935.

  Statutory Rules 1927, No. 149. as amended by Statutory Rules 1928, Nos. 23, 28 and 126; 1929, No. 123; 1930. Nos. 26, 67 and 92: 1931, No. 13; 1932, Nos. 80, 87 and 125; 1933, Nos. 49 and 77; 1934, Nos. 26 and 80; 1935, No. 99.

5198.—12/31. 10. 1935. —Price 3d.

 

(4.) The areas mentioned in sub-regulation (3.) of this regulation shall be defined in a Notice to Mariners which shall be issued annually by the Director of Navigation and notified by a Deputy Director of Navigation by advertisement in a newspaper or newspapers circulating in the port, concerned not loss than twenty-four hours before the practice begins.

(5.) When artillery practice seaward is to be carried out the formation &c. commander to whose command the persons carrying out the practice belong shall, if in the 2nd Military District, notify the Captain Superintendent, Sydney, or in other Military Districts, the, District Naval Officer, and, in either case, the Deputy Director of Navigation concerned, not less than three clear days before the practice takes place, in order that His Majesty’s and other ships at sea may be informed.

(6.) The notifications to the Captain Superintendent, Sydney, or District Naval Officer, and to the Deputy Director of Navigation, shall specify which area, amongst those defined in accordance with sub-regulation (4.) of this regulation, is to be used for practice, the time at which the practice will take place, and, where applicable, whether star shell, rockets or other light signals are to be used.

(7.) (a) The Deputy Director of Navigation concerned shall arrange for a visual signal in accordance with paragraph (b) of this sub-regulation to be made at the signal station customarily used for communicating with shipping moving or about to move in the area affected, from the time at which the practice is advertised to begin until its conclusion.

(b)The signal to be made at a signal station to denote that artillery practice is proceeding shall be —

(i) by day—the letters “IB” in International Code, or two red balls suspended vertically with a green cone (apex uppermost) between them; or

(ii) by night—three lights suspended vertically, the top and bottom lights being red and the centre light green.

(8.) This regulation shall not apply to any artillery practice seaward which takes place before the first day of January, 1936.

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