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

STATUTORY RULES.

1912. No. 14.

 

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1911.

Amendment to Financial and Allowance Regulation 66.

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 1st day of January, 1912, and make the Regulation to come into operation accordingly as a Provisional Regulation.

Dated this seventeenth day of January, 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.

MARRIED ESTABLISHMENT.

At end of Regulation 66, add the following new sub-paragraph:—

(f) A soldier on the married establishment stationed at Thursday Island or Townsville, compulsorily separated from his wife and family, on account of the ill-health of his wife, may be permitted to occupy quarters, as for an unmarried soldier, in Barracks, and

in the case of a soldier not in receipt of a consolidated rate of pay, to continue to draw the lodging allowance prescribed for his rank, without any deduction therefor; or

in the case of a soldier in receipt of a consolidated rate of pay, without any deduction from such consolidated pay,

provided that in such cases a medical certificate is given, either:—

(a) by the Medical Officer in charge of troops at the place at which the soldier was stationed on transfer, that the wife of such soldier is unable, on account of ill-health, to proceed to Thursday Island or Townsville (as the case may be); or

(b) by the Medical Officer in charge of troops at Thursday Island or Townsville, that on account of ill-health the wife of the soldier is unable to remain at Thursday Island or Townsville (as the case may be).

 

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