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

STATUTORY RULES.

1911. No. 184.

 

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1910.

Amendment to Financial Regulation 166.

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 1903-1910 should come into immediate operation, and further, should be taken to have come into operation on and from the 1st day of October, 1911, and to make the Regulation to come into operation accordingly as a Provisional Regulation.

Dated this 8th day of November, One thousand nine hundred and eleven.

DENMAN,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE.

 

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

PART X.—TRAVELLING ALLOWANCES.

Regulation 166—

(5) Transfers and removals.

Sub-paragraphs (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), and (h), are cancelled, and the following substituted therefor:—

(b) Claims may also be submitted for payment for removal of furniture in accordance with the following scale:—

(1.)			(2.)			(3.)			(4.)			(5.)			(6.)			(7.)			(8.)
Rank.	Number of Family.	Brisbane to Sydney, Sydney to Melbourne, Melbourne to Adelaide.			Sydney or Melbourne to Hobart.			Brisbane to Melbourne, Sydney to Adelaide.			Brisbane to Adelaide	Brisbane to Tasmania, Tasmania to Adelaide.			Melbourne to Perth, Adelaide to Perth.			Sydney to Perth.			Brisbane or Hobart to Perth.
£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.
Lt.-Colonel (or higher)	Single...........	8	0	0	9	0	0	10	0	0	11	0	0	12	0	0	13	0	0	14	0	0	16	0	0
	Married........	25	0	0	27	0	0	28	0	0	32	0	0	34	0	0	37	0	0	40	0	0	43	0	0
Additional for each child.....................	4	0	0	4	10	0	5	0	0	5	5	0	5	15	0	6	10	0	7	0	0	7	15	0
Major	Single...................	8	0	0	9	0	0	10	0	0	11	0	0	12	0	0	13	0	0	14	0	0	16	0	0
Married................	21	0	0	23	0	0	25	0	0	27	0	0	29	0	0	31	0	0	33	0	0	37	0	0
Additional for each child..................	4	0	0	4	10	0	5	0	0	5	5	0	5	15	0	6	10	0	7	0	0	7	15	0
Captain or Lieutenant	Single...................	8	0	0	9	0	0	10	0	0	11	0	0	12	0	0	13	0	0	14	0	0	16	0	0
	Married................	21	0	0	23	0	0	25	0	0	27	0	0	29	0	0	31	0	0	33	0	0	37	0	0
Additional for each child..................	3	0	0	3	5	0	3	10	0	4	0	0	4	10	0	4	15	0	5	5	0	5	15	0
Warrant-Officer	Single...................	6	0	0	6	10	0	7	0	0	8	0	0	9	0	0	9	10	0	10	10	0	11	10	0
Married................	19	0	0	20	10	0	22	0	0	24	0	0	26	0	0	27	10	0	29	10	0	32	10	0
Additional for each child..................	3	0	0	3	5	0	3	10	0	4	0	0	4	10	0	4	15	0	5	5	0	5	15	0
Non-commissioned officers and lower rank	Single...................	4	0	0	4	10	0	5	0	0	5	5	0	5	15	0	6	10	0	7	0	0	7	15	0
	Married................	17	0	0	18	10	0	20	0	0	20	15	0	22	5	0	24	10	0	26	0	0	28	5	0
	Additional for each child..................	2	0	0	2	5	0	2	10	0	2	15	0	3	0	0	3	5	0	3	10	0	4	0	0

For Notes see next page.

C.16168.—Price 3d.

 

Notes.

(1.) These amounts do not include personal baggage carried free by railway or steamer. No excess will be paid for.

(2.) Lighterage, Fremantle to Perth, is included in cost of removal to or from Perth.

(3.) The “married” rate will be paid in lieu of the “single” rate to members who are accompanied by their wives, or widowers with children.

(4.) The rates for children are to be added to the “married” rate, but are only admissible for children over 2 years and under 18 years of age at date of removal.

(5.) When a member of the Military Forces is compelled to move his station, and to be followed later by his family, the allowance may be increased by the amount allowed for one child up to the sum of £4.

(6.) The rates for removal to and from Thursday Island shall be as follow:—From Brisbane or Sydney as in (6); from Melbourne, as in (7); from Adelaide or Hobart, as in (8); from Perth, twice that allowed in (4).

(7.) The rate for removal within a metropolitan area shall be one-fourth that in column (1), and for removal from or to a country locality within a State, one half that in column (1), exclusive of necessary railway freight, which will be paid by Departmental Voucher in the usual manner. Removal by sea within State shall be as in column (1).

(8.) The above commuted allowance includes all packing, cartage, and shipping charges, but not railway freight. In the case of movement by railway only, the commuted allowance will be half that in column (1), and rail freight will be covered by usual voucher. When there are alternative routes, e.g., by rail only, or by sea only, or by sea and rail combined, the cheaper route will be adopted.

(c) The amounts authorized in (b) will be claimed as a commuted allowance to cover all expenditure in connexion with the removal from one station to another, except railway freight, for which a voucher shall be given in the usual manner. Provided, however, that such commuted allowance shall only be paid in cases, when the member is in possession of such household furniture as is ordinarily required for his family. In other cases the commuted allowance shall be such less sum as is approved by the Commandant.

(d) No responsibility will be incurred by the Department in connexion with such removals, and members may receive the full allowance, notwithstanding that they dispose of all or part of their effects before removal, and supply themselves with other articles at the new station.

(e) In very exceptional circumstances where it can be satisfactorily proved that the amount as set out in subparagraph (b) above is not sufficient to cover the actual cost of removal of necessary household furniture and effects, the Commandant may recommend for the approval of the Military Board the payment of an additional amount towards such actual cost.

 

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