STATUTORY RULES.
1942. No. 44.
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 fourth day of February, 1942.
GOWRIE
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
F. M. FORDE
Minister of State for the Army.
Defence
(Labour Corps) Regulations.
Citation.
1. These Regulations may be cited as
the Defence (Labour Corps) Regulations.
Definitions.
2.—(1.) In these
Regulations—
“the
Corps” means the Army Labour Corps
constituted by these Regulations.
(2.)
Unless the contrary intention appears, words used in these Regulations which
are defined in the Defence Act 1903-1941
or the Australian Military Regulations have the meanings assigned to them in
those definitions.
Constitution.
3. There shall be an Army
Labour Corps, which shall be a corps of the Active Citizen Military Forces and
shall consist of—
(a) officers appointed to the Corps or
transferred to or seconded for duty with the Corps from other portions of the
Military Forces; and
(b) soldiers of the age of eighteen years
and upwards but under sixty years who are enlisted in the Corps or transferred
to the Corps from other portions of the Military Forces.
* Notified in the Commonwealth
Gazette on 4th February, 1942.
905.—Price 3d.
Organization.
4. The Corps shall be
organized into such detachments as the Military Board from time to time
directs.
Service.
5. Officers and members of
the Corps shall perform such duties in connexion with the defence of the
Commonwealth or the efficient prosecution of the war or the maintenance of
supplies and services essential to the life of the community (not being duties
of a combatant nature) as the Military Board directs.
Pay
and conditions of service.
6. The provisions of the
War Financial (Military Forces) Regulations shall apply to officers and members
of the Corps as if they were members of the Citizen Military Forces who had
been called up for continuous full time war service other than service for a
specified period less than for the duration of the war.
By
Authority: L. F. Johnston,
Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.