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

STATUTORY RULES.

1915. No. 33.

 

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1914.

Financial and Allowance Regulations for the Military Forces of the Commonwealth—Regulations 324 and 325—Amendments.

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 1903-1914 should come into immediate operation, and, further, should be taken to have come into operation on and from the first day of July, 1914, and make the Regulations to come into operation accordingly as Provisional Regulations.

Dated this eighteenth day of March, One thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE.

 

FINANCIAL AND ALLOWANCE REGULATIONS FOR THE MILITARY FORCES OF THE COMMONWEALTH.

Amendments.

Regulation 324 which reads—

“324. Subject to provision being made by Parliament the following sums will be made available for distribution by Commandants as grants to Commanding Officers:—

(a) Artillery.—£15 per battery or company,

(b)Musketry.—Light Horse, Infantry, Intelligence Corps, 2s. per head of establishment,

(c) Skill-at-Arms.—Engineers, Corps of Signallers, Army Service Corps, and Army Medical Corps, 2s. per head of establishment.”

is cancelled, and the following substituted therefor:—

“324. Subject to provision being made by Parliament and provided that the numbers for whom the amounts under paragraphs (b) and (c) may be paid shall not exceed the authorized peace establishment, the following sums may be made available for distribution by Commandants as grants to Commanding Officers:—

(a) Artillery.—£15 per battery or company,

(b)Musketry.—Light Horse, Infantry—2s. for each member who completes the prescribed musketry course,

C.854.—Price 3d.

 

(c)Skill-at-Arms.—Engineers, Corps of Signallers, Army Service Corps, and Army Medical Corps—2s. for each member who completes the approved competitive practice.”

Regulation 325, which reads:—

“325. The method of distribution shall be approved by the Commandant in accordance with general instructions from Head-Quarters, and in the case of (b) and (c) shall be proportionate to the number of non-commissioned officers and men in the Units who complete the prescribed musketry course or other competitive practice for which the abovenamed sums are made available.

A portion of the sums specified in Regulation 324, not exceeding 20 per cent., may be expended in payment of entrance fees for teams in Service Matches at State Rifle Association Meetings, and the remainder shall be allotted for payment of prizes in competitions authorized under Financial Regulation 325.”

is cancelled, and the following substituted therefor:—

“325. The method of distribution shall be approved by the Commandant in accordance with general instructions from Head-Quarters.

A portion of the sums specified in Regulation 324, not exceeding 20 per cent., may be expended in payment of entrance fees for teams in Service Matches at State Rifle Association Meetings, and the remainder shall be allotted for payment in prizes in competitions authorized under this Regulation.”

 

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