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

STATUTORY RULES.

1924. No. 119.

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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 fifteenth day of August, 1924.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

E. K. BOWDEN,

Minister of State for Defence.

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

(Statutory Rules 1921, No. 82, as amended to this date.)

Amendments.

A. Regulation 135 is amended by deleting the words “School of Gunnery” and inserting in lieu thereof the words “Artillery Schools of Instruction”.

B. Regulation 138 is amended by adding the following to sub-paragraph (2) thereof:—

“Civilian medical practitioners may be paid the rate of Field Allowance as prescribed for Captain in regulation 235 for such periods as they are employed in Camps or Schools and mess in the Officers’ Mess under circumstances which involve the payment of Field Allowance”.

C. Regulation 201 is cancelled and the following substituted therefor:—

“201. Motor cars may be hired for journeys where such means of conveyance would be cheaper than normal means of transport, due regard being paid to the amount of travelling allowance involved and the amount of time to be occupied on the journey. Motor cars may also be hired for such official duties as cannot efficiently be performed by the medium of normal means of transport”.

D. Regulation 207 is cancelled and the following substituted therefor:—

“207. (a)A member (not including Survey Section R.A.E.) not in receipt of horse allowance, who provides his own means of conveyance in lieu of ordinary available means of transport for journeys exceeding three miles which have been approved is connexion with official military duty, may, subject to the following conditions, receive an allowance in respect of the use of such conveyance, as under:—

Per mile.
Four-wheeled motor cars of and over 10 horse-power...................	8d
Four-wheeled motor cars under 10 horse-power, tri-cars and motor cycles with side-cars............................................................	5d
Motor cycles without side-cars.................................................... .	4d.
Other means of conveyance........................................................	First 20 miles 3d. per mile, each additional mile over 20, 1½. per mile.

The higher rate allowed for the use of a motor cycle with side-car attached will be payable when the combination is actually used and will not be confined to occasions on which the use of a side-car is necessary.

(b)In no case shall the allowance drawn under this regulation together with travelling allowance exceed the amount that would be payable by the Department for fares or hire of conveyance and travelling allowance had the cheapest normal means of conveyance been utilized.

(c) A certificate from the officer authorizing the journey must be attached to the claim for payment of the allowance that the use of the member’s own means of conveyance has resulted in greater efficiency and/or saving than would have been the case had normal means of conveyance been utilized.

(d)No payment shall be made by the Department under the above authority—

(i) for wear and tear of, or damage occasioned to or by such private means of conveyance;

(ii) for distances travelled between the residence of the member and his usual Head-quarters, Drill Hall or place of assembly.

(e) Free issues of petrol shall not be made to members who use their own motor cars or motor cycles on official duty.”

E. Regulation 263 sub-paragraph (b) is amended as follows:—

“Cancel the words ‘during the period of the account’ in the second line and the words ‘for each unit’ in the third line. After the word ‘summarized’ in the second line add the word ‘daily’.”

   

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