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

STATUTORY RULES.

1922. No. 158.

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 Act 1903-1918, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this eighteenth day of October, 1922.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

GRANVILLE RYRIE,

For Minister of State for Defence.

 

Financial and Allowance Regulations for the Australian Military Forces and Senior Cadets, 1921.

A. Regulation 39 is amended by—

(a) deleting the sub-head “(III) Class 2, Category A. Master Gunner, 3rd Class” and all reference thereto; and including in the proviso before “Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant” the words “Master Gunner (3rd Class) or”.

(b) deleting the word “other” from sub-head (IV) Class 2, Category “B”.

B. Regulation 117 is repealed and the following, substituted therefor:—

“117. Any person provisionally appointed to commissioned rank in the Citizen Forces other than to the rank of Lieutenant, or any officer provisionally promoted in commissioned rank in the Citizen Forces shall (with the exception of officers of the Australian Army Legal Department), be granted only the pay prescribed for the next lower rank until he passes the final examination for the rank to which he has been provisionally appointed or promoted. From that date if it occurs within the current financial year (failing which it shall begin on the 1st day of the current financial year) he shall be eligible for the pay of the higher rank after notification of the confirmation of his provisional rank has appeared in the Commonwealth Gazette.”

C. Regulation 201—Sub-paragraph (iii) is repealed.

D. Regulation 202—Paragraphs (c) and (d) are repealed and the following substituted therefor:—

“(c) Subject to sub-paragraphs (d) and (e) of this regulation, a member of the Permanent Forces whose appointment may be provided with free rail, steamer or coach transport to the place of enlistment of first appointment, or in lieu thereof transport to any other

 

place within the Commonwealth, provided that the cost of such transport to such other place does not exceed the cost of transport to place of enlistment or first appointment. He may also be provided with free transport for necessary household furniture and effects in his possession in accordance with the provisions of regulation 203, provided that a member stationed at Thursday Island may on the termination of his appointment or discharge for misconduct or for medical unfitness due to misconduct, be granted transport to the nearest convenient port on the mainland.

No monetary grant shall be made in lieu of the actual transport and the privilege of transport shall be available only within a period of one month after discharge provided that in special cases an extension of the period not exceeding two months may be granted by the Military Board.

(d) Except as approved by the Military Board, a soldier of the Permanent Forces who is discharged on the expiration of his period of enlistment or re-engagement, having elected not to re-engage for further service for the prescribed period when given an opportunity by his Commanding Officer of so doing, shall not be entitled to any of the benefits provided by paragraph (c) of this regulation unless he has served continuously for at least two years at the station at which discharged.

(c) The place of enlistment or first appointment referred to in paragraph (c) above shall usually be deemed to be the city or place in which the enlistment or first appointment actually occurred provided that in cases in which members were transported at departmental expense to the place of enlistment for the purpose of immediate enlistment or appointment the place of enlistment or appointment for the purposes of this regulation shall be decided by the Military Board.”

E. Regulation 203—Paragraph (a) is repealed.

 

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