Financial and Allowance Regulations for the Military Forces of the Commonwealth (Amendment) (Provisional) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1912. No. 150.

 

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1911.

Amendments to Financial and Allowance Regulations 176, 179, 179a, and 200.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the following Regulations under the Defence Act 1903-1911 should come into immediate operation, and, further, should be taken to have come into operation on and from the 1st day of July, 1912, and make the Regulations to come into operation accordingly as Provisional Regulations.

Dated this seventeenth day of July, One thousand nine hundred and twelve.

DENMAN,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE.

 

FINANCIAL AND ALLOWANCE REGULATIONS (PROVISIONAL) FOR THE MILITARY FORCES OF THE COMMONWEALTH.

Amendments.

Cancel Regulation 176, and substitute—

“176. Officers, warrant and non-commissioned officers, attending schools to receive instruction shall, wherever practicable, be furnished with—

(a) Meals supplied by a caterer, who will supply rations and all necessaries required for the cooking and serving of same; and

(b) Tentage or quarters.

No allowance other than that prescribed in Regulation 174 to be granted.”

Cancel Regulation 179, and substitute—

“179. Instructors and assistant instructors, if required to be continuously absent from their quarters, shall, during the progress of the school, be supplied with tentage or quarters, and meals, as prescribed in Regulation 176, and in addition may, on the approval of

   

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the Commandant, be granted an allowance not exceeding the following:—

Instructors (officers)—not exceeding two per school—2s. 6d. per diem.

Assistant instructors (warrant and non-commissioned officers)—not exceeding one to every ten members attending the school—1s. 6d. per diem.

Forage for one horse may be drawn for each officer, warrant and non-commissioned officer, attending a mounted school of instruction.”

Add new Regulation—

“179a. Civilian labour on the following scale is authorized for schools of instruction, viz.:—

At Schools of Instruction for Mounted Service.

One to every two officers.

At Schools of Instruction for Dismounted Service.

One to every six officers,

provided that where Government horses are used at schools for mounted service, and such horses are cared for by the personnel provided for that purpose, the civilian labour employed will be as for a school for dismounted service.

Wages of men so employed to be at the rate of 6s. per diem, with tentage or quarters and subsistence.”

Regulation 200.—After “Schools of Instruction,” wherever it occurs, insert “*” and insert footnote—

“* Except when arrangements are made by the Department for the supply of meals by a caterer.”

 

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