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

STATUTORY RULES.

1906. No. 111.

 

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACTS 1903–1904.

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 Acts 1903–1904 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulations to come into operation forthwith as Provisional Regulations.

Dated this eleventh day of December, One thousand nine hundred and six.

NORTHCOTE,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

T. PLAYFORD.

 

Amendment of the Financial and Allowance Regulations for the Military Forces of the Commonwealth.

Regulation 144 is repealed, and the following Regulation is substituted therefor:—

Courts Martial, Boards, &c.

144. Officers of the Citizen Forces acting as members of Courts Martial (except while their corps is attending parade or encampment) or attending meetings of the Military Board or the Promotion Board or of any committee appointed with the approval of the Minister will, subject to the approval of the Commandant, receive allowances as follows for each day or part of a day whilst necessarily absent from their respective Head-quarters:—

Militia Officers.—An allowance equal to the rate of pay of their respective ranks.

In calculating the allowance for a part of a day, the daily rate of pay shall be reckoned as for a day of eight hours, but not more than one day’s pay shall be granted for any period of twenty-four hours.

No travelling allowance shall be drawn when pay is claimed.

Volunteer Officers.—The travelling allowance of their respective ranks.

 

By Authority: J. Kemp, Acting Government Printer, Melbourne.

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