Australian Military Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1962. No. 69.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1956.*

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council hereby make the following Regulations under the Defence Act 1903-1956.

Dated this third day of August, 1962.

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for the Army.

 

Amendments of the Australian Military Regulations. 

Parts.

1. Regulation 2 of the Australian Military Regulations is amended by omitting the words and figures—

“Division 5.—Leave of absence on ground of illness, Permanent Forces—819a-831”.

Appointment of Honorary Colonels.

2. Regulation 98 of the Australian Military Regulations is amended by omitting paragraphs (d), (e) and (f) of sub-regulation (2.) and inserting in their stead the following paragraphs:—

“(d) in the case of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps and the Royal Australian Infantry Corps—one for each regiment of each of those Corps; and

(e) in the case of the Australian Cadet Corps—eight for that Corps.”.

Military title on discharge.

3. Regulation 192 of the Australian Military Regulations is amended by omitting the words “the long service medal appropriate to his branch of the Military Forces” and inserting in their stead the following words “a long service medal appropriate to the Military Forces”.

Modifications and adaptions of AA. 44. (War Service.)

4. Regulation 216 of the Australian Military Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-paragraph (v) of paragraph (c) the words—

“‘(17) A court martial may, under section 106 of the Defence Act 1903-1956, in lieu of sentencing an offender to penal servitude, sentence him to imprisonment with or without hard labour, for the same period as that for which he might have been sentenced to penal servitude or for any less period.’”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 16 August, 1962.

  Statutory Rules 1927, No. 149 as amended to date. For previous amendments to the Australian Military Regulations, see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1961, No. 42.

4235/61.—Price 3d. 10/18.6.1962.

 

5. Regulation 465a of the Australian Military Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Sickness on recreation leave.

“465a. Where—

(a) a member of the Permanent Forces becomes ill or is injured whilst on recreation leave; and

(b) as soon as practicable after becoming ill or being injured, the member furnishes to his unit a certificate by a duly qualified medical practitioner that he is or has been, during the period of his recreation leave, unfit for duty for a period of not less than four days,

the member shall, at a time convenient to the service, be granted additional recreation leave equal to the period for which he was unfit for duty during the period of his recreation leave.”.

Repeal of Division 5 of Part XIII.

6. Division 5 of Part XIII. of the Australian Military Regulations is repealed.

 

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.