Australian Military Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1922. No. 159.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1918.

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 1903-1918, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this eighteenth day of October, 1922.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

GRANVILLE RYRIE,

For Minister of State for Defence.

 

Australian Military Regulations 1916.

Amendments.

A. Add the following new regulation next after regulation 196—

“196a. Warrant Officers of the Australian Instructional Corps shall take seniority within the Corps in their respective classes of that rank according to the dates of their appointment or promotion in these classes”.

B. Regulation 309 is repealed.

C. Regulation 310 is repealed, and the following regulation is substituted therefor:—

“310. Applicants for voluntary enlistment in the Permanent and Citizen Forces shall be medically examined and shall not be enlisted unless they come within the standards applicable to the arms of the service concerned of medical fitness, age, height and chest measurements, eyesight and teeth, approved by the Military Board and promulgated in the standing orders for medical services”.

D. Sub-regulation (1) of regulation 311 is repealed and the following sub-regulation is substituted therefor:—

“(1) Boys between the ages of 14and 17 years may be enlisted in the Permanent Forces for service as musicians, trumpeters and buglers provided that they attain a standard of general medical fitness and the examining medical officer certifies that they are likely to attain at the age of 18 years the standards of medical fitness required of recruits of that age for the arm of the service concerned.”

E. Regulation 366 is repealed.

 

F. Regulation 373 is amended by inserting the figure “(1)” after the figures “373” and by adding the following sub-regulation:—

“(2) The standards of eyesight and correlation of age and weight, height and chest measurements for the medical examination of persons liable to be trained under section 125 of the Act for service under paragraph (c) of that section shall be as approved by the Military Board and promulgated in the standing orders for medical services.”

G. Regulation 374 is repealed and the following regulation is substituted therefor:—

“374. Persons liable to be trained under paragraph (c) of section 125 of the Act who fail to attain the standards of eyesight or correlation of weight, height and chest measurements or in any way, by reason of disease or physical or mental defect, are in the opinion of the examining medical officer unfit for the duties of a soldier shall be certified to be “Unfit”.

H. Regulation 376 is repealed.

I. Regulation 140a—Delete the word “(and)” occurring next after the words “Royal Military College”.

 

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