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

STATUTORY RULES.

1932. No. 112.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1927.

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 1903-1927, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this sixth day of October, 1932.

ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE

Minister of State for Defence.

 

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

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

Amendments.

1. Para. (iii) of Regulation 86 is repealed and the following para. substituted:—

“(iii) Dental treatment does not include the supply of precious metals at public expense.”

2. Regulation 177 is amended—

(i) by repealing para. (c) and substituting the following para.:—

“(c) The compensation awarded shall be an amount equivalent to three years’ pay of the member’s rank in the same branch of the Permanent Forces, or if there be no such branch of the Permanent Forces, of an equivalent rank in the Royal Australian Artillery.”

(ii) Para. (d) is re-lettered (c).

(iii) Insert the following para. (d):—

“(d) The amount of compensation payable under subparagraph (c) of this regulation shall be distributed in such proportions and in such manner as may be approved by the Minister having regard to the circumstances of the widow and children.”

3. Regulation 182 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following words:—

“The receipt of the person to whom payment is made on behalf of a dependant or dependants under twenty-one years of age shall constitute an absolute discharge to the Commonwealth in respect of any compensation payable to such dependant or dependants.”

 

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

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