STATUTORY
RULES.
1926. No. 68.
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 Act1903-1918, to come into operation
on and from 1st April, 1926.
Dated this
twenty-seventh day of May, 1926.
STONEHAVEN,
Governor-General.
By His
Excellency’s Command,
NEVILLE
HOWSE,
Minister
of State for Defence.
———
Financial
and Allowance Regulations for the Australian Military
Forces and Senior Cadets.
(Statutory Rules 1921,
No. 82, as amended to this date.)
Amendment.
Regulation
39 is cancelled and the following substituted therefor:—
“39
(a).Appointments to Staffs or Commands are graded for Staff or Command
pay as set out hereunder and officers of the Staff Corps formally appointed
thereto, whether temporarily or otherwise, may, whilst holding the appointment,
and subject to the necessary provision being made by Parliament, be paid the
rates shown in addition to pay of rank as authorized in Regulation 38.
C.7200.—Price 3d.
Grade. | Rate per Annum. | Appointment. |
Army Head-quarters, Schools, Dépôts
&c. | Royal Military College. | Field Army. | Fixed Machinery. |
1a | £ 90 | Colonels
on the Staff; Colonels and Staff Officers, 1st Grade, General and Administrative
Staff.
| Staff Officer, 1st Grade— Director
of Military Art |
1b | 80 | ......................................................... | ......................................................... | Staff
Officers, 1st Grade — G (General Staff), A
(Adjutant-General) and Q (Quartermaster-General) Branches
| District
Base Commandants, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Military Districts. Commander,
Field Troops and District Base Commandant. 6th Military District
Staff
Officers, 1st Grade— A (Adjutant-General), and Q (Quartermaster-General) Branches
|
2a | 70 | Staff
Officers, 2nd Grade— G
(General-Staff). A (Adjutant General) and Q.
(Quartermaster-General) Branches Representative
Q (Quartermaster-General)
Branch, Lon-don. Director of Works
| Staff
Officers, 2nd Grade— Instructor
in Tactics and Topography
|
2b | 60 | Chief
Instructor— Artillery Schools of Instruction
Small Arms School Central
Training Dépôt...................................................
| ......................................................... | Staff Officer,
2nd Grade— G
(General Staff), A (Adjutant-General) and Q (Quartermaster-General) Branches
| Commanding
Officer and Staff Officers Artillery.
2nd and 3rd District Bases Staff
Officers, 2nd Grade— G (General Staff), A
(Adjutant-General) and Q (Quartermaster General) Branches
|
3a | 50 | Staff Officer,
3rd Grade— Inspector-General’s Branch— G
(General Staff), A (Adjutant-General), Q (Quarter-master-General) Branches
| Adjutant,
graded as Staff Officer |
3b | 40 | ......................................................... | ......................................................... | Staff
Officers. 3rd Grade— A (Adjutant-General) and Q
(Quartermaster-General) Branches
| Staff
Officers, 3rd Grade— A (Adjutant-General) and Q (Quartermaster-General) Branches
|
(b)Appointments of
Colonels on the Staff and Colonels to General and Administrative Staffs shall
be subject to the approval of the Governor-General in Council and shall be
notified in the Commonwealth Gazette. Appointments
of other Staff Officers shall be subject to the approval of the Military Board
and shall be notified in Australian Army Orders.
(c) An officer of the Staff Corps who was
graded as a Staff Officer and was in receipt of Staff pay on the 31st March, 1926, under the provisions of the
Regulations then in force but whose appointment is not graded as a Staff
appointment by this regulation, shall continue to receive such Staff pay for
the remainder of the tenure of his present appointment.
(d) In addition to the provision of Staff pay in paragraph (a)above, officers of the Staff Corps holding appointments of Brigade Major
may from 1st April, 1926, be graded as Staff Officers, Grade 3b, and may receive Staff pay accordingly
at the rate of £40 per annum, provided, however, that such officers shall not
be so graded and paid unless and until vacancies exist and funds become
available upon the authorized establishment of such grading and such officers
will be appointed to such grading in the order of seniority.”
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