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

STATUTORY RULES.

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1921. No. 204.

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 nineteenth day of October, 1921.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

GRANVILLE RYRIE,

for Minister of State for Defence.

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

Amendments.

(a) Regulation 21 (d) is amended by deleting the words “Regulation 6” and inserting in lieu thereof, the words “Regulations 6 and 15”.

(b) Regulation 26 is cancelled and the following inserted in lieu thereof:—

“26. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Regulation 37 an officer who is due to receive an increment in pay on or prior to the 1st January, 1922, and who held higher substantive rank in the Australian Imperial Force, shall be eligible to receive an increment irrespective of whether the prescribed examination has or has not been passed, but every officer who is due for increment subsequent to the 1st January, 1922, shall be required to pass the prescribed examination for promotion.”

(c) Regulation 32 is cancelled and the following inserted in lieu thereof:—

“32.—Daily rates of pay shall be calculated at one-seventh of the weekly rate or one three hundred and sixty-fifth of the yearly rate.”

(d) Regulation 40 is amended by deleting the words “(Other than the Corps of Armament Artificers) of and below the rank of Warrant Officer, Class, I,” and inserting in lieu thereof, the words:—

“in receipt of pay prescribed in Regulation 39.”

(e) Regulation 45(i) is amended by deleting the words:—

“Provided that no deduction shall be made for tentage or quarters occupied in connexion with Camps of Continuous Training or Schools of Instruction or when troops are in Camp”

and inserting in lieu thereof, the following:—

“Provided that no deduction shall be made for tentage or hutments in Camps or Schools and that the scale of deductions may be varied by the Military Board or as elsewhere prescribed when quarters are occupied at Camps or Schools of Instruction.”

(f) The reference in Statutory Rule No. 189 of 1920, sub-paragraph (3) to the repealing of Financial and Allowance Regulation 93 (old issue) is cancelled in so far as it refers to sub-paragraph (f) of that regulation.

  

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