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

STATUTORY RULES

1912. No. 103.

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1911.

Financial and Allowance Regulations (Provisional) For the Military Forces of the Commonwealth—Regulation 81—Amendment.

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 Regulation 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 dates specified therein, and make the Regulation to come into operation accordingly as a Provisional Regulation.

Dated this twenty-second day of May, 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.

Amendment.

Regulation 81 is cancelled, and the following substituted therefor:—

Ordnance Department and Rifle Range Services.

Ordnance Department and Rifle Range Staffs.

81. The positions held by members of the Ordnance Department and Rifle Ranges Staffs (other than those serving under the Public Service Act) shall be arranged in grades, as set forth in the following Schedule. Except where otherwise provided, the limits of salary to be paid to a member occupying any office designated in such Schedule shall be as prescribed therein in respect to such office.

Where a member is already is receipt of a higher rate of pay than prescribed in this Regulation, he shall continue to receive such higher rate of pay while holding the office.

 

C.6472.—Price 3d.

Grade I.—£134per annum—

Labourer.	After two years on Grade I. may be advanced to Grade II.
Watchman.
Blacksmith’s Striker.
Storeman........................................
Marker...........................................
Caretaker.......................................

Grade II.—£144 to £156 per annum—

Storeman........................................	Annual increments of £6.
Marker...........................................
Assistant Armourer.........................
Saddler and Harnessmaker..............
Sailmaker.......................................
Ranger...........................................
Magazine Storeman........................	Annual increments of £6. May be advanced to Grade III. after two years’ service on maximum.
Caretaker.......................................	Annual increments of £6. Advancement to higher grades dependent on vacancies occurring or reclassification of position.

Grade III.—£167 per annum—

Magazine Storeman.
Blacksmith.
Carpenter
Caretaker.......................................	Advancement to higher grade dependent on vacancies occurring or reclassification of position.
Foreman Storeman..........................
Armourer.......................................
Inspecting Ranger...........................

Grade IV.—£174 to £180 annum—

Caretaker.......................................	Annual increments of £6. Advancement to higher grade dependent on vacancies occurring or reclassification of position.
Foreman Storeman..........................
Armourer.......................................
Inspecting Ranger...........................

Grade V.—£192 to £210 per annum—

Armourer.......................................	Annual increments of £6. Advancement to higher grade dependent on vacancies occurring or reclassification of position.
Inspecting Ranger...........................
Range Superintendent.....................

Grade VI.—£216 to £228 per annum—

Armourer.......................................	Annual increments of £6. Advancement to higher grade dependent on vacancies occurring or reclassification of position.
Range Superintendent.....................

Grade VII.—£240 per annum—

Armourer.

Range Superintendent.

Notwithstanding anything contained in this Regulation, in any case when an increment would be deferred, owing to the provisions of this Regulation, beyond the date upon which it would have otherwise accrued, the increment may be granted from such date.

The grade of a member under the provisions of this Regulation shall be that corresponding to his designation, provided that a member who is receiving, at the date of this Regulation, less than the minimum salary of his grade as provided thereunder, may, in the case of Grade I., be granted such minimum salary as from 1st January, 1912, and in the case of other grades as from 1st April, 1912; and provided further that where the same designation occurs in two or more grades, the grade of the member shall be that corresponding, or most nearly corresponding, in rate of pay to the grading of his office prior to the issue of this Regulation.

Deduction for quarters.

When public quarters an allotted to a member of the Ordnance Department or Rifle Range Services, a deduction of one-tenth shall be made from his pay.

 

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