Financial and Allowance Regulations for the Australian Military Forces and Senior Cadets (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1933. No. 110.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1932.

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 DefenceAct 1903-1932.

Dated this eleventh day of October, 1933.

ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE

Minister of State for Defence.

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Financial and Allowance Regulations for the Australian Military Forces and Senior Cadets.

(Statutory Rules 1926, No. 211, as amended to this date.)

Amendments.

1. Sub-regulation (b) of regulation 50 is amended by the cancellation of the proviso at the end of sub-paragraph (i) of the sub-regulation, and by the insertion of the following words in lieu thereof:—

“Provided that payment shall not be made under this regulation in respect of any period prior to the date three months earlier than that upon which a member makes written application to his Commanding Officer for payment of the allowance, except that in the case of a member serving abroad, restrospective payment may be made from such date as may be approved by the Minister. This proviso shall be deemed to have come into operation on the 30th day of June, 1932.”

 

2. Regulation 248 is repealed and the following new regulation is substituted therefor:—

“248. (i) At the discretion of the Military Board the peace ration scales prescribed in these Regulations may be commuted to a cash allowance, which, subject to the provisions of sub-regulation (ii) of this regulation, shall constitute the equivalent entitlement of the issue in kind. This cash allowance shall be utilized only for the purchase of provisions so as to provide a ration varied from the standard ration scale. The method of computing the commuted ration allowance and its utilization for messing purposes shall be as laid down by the Military Board.

 

(ii) In the case of units of the Permanent Military Forces the commuted ration allowance shall at the discretion of the Military Board be either an amount not exceeding sixteenpence halfpenny or an amount calculated in accordance with sub-regulation (i) of this regulation, whichever is the greater, provided that this sub-regulation shall not apply to members of the Permanent Forces when they are in Militia or Volunteer Force camps, bivouacs or the like.”

(iii) This regulation shall be deemed to have come into operation on the 1st day of September, 1933.

3. Regulation 258 is amended by the deletion of the following words:— “The standard ration for the Permanent Military Forces in Barracks or Stationary quarters in Peace shall be as under”, and by the substitution of the following words in lieu thereof:—

“The standard ration for the Permanent Military Forces in peace time (except when in Militia or Volunteer Force camps, bivouacs or the like) shall be as under”.

4. Regulation 259 is amended by the deletion of the word “Permanent” in the first sentence thereof; and by the insertion of the following words at the end of the regulation:—

“The standard ration for members of the Permanent Military Forces when they are in Militia or Volunteer Force camps, bivouacs or the like shall be as prescribed by this regulation.”

 

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