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

STATUTORY RULES.

1914. No. 142.

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PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1912.

Financial and Allowance Regulations for the Military Forces of the Commonwealth—Regulations 136 and 230—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 Regulations under the Defence Act 1903-1912 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 fourteenth day of October, One thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE.

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

Amendment.

Regulation 136.—The first sub-paragraph, reading as follows:—

“Subject to provision being made by Parliament, and after approval of the Minister upon the recommendation of the Military Board, Officers Commanding Militia Regiments or Corps (excluding Command Staffs) shall be credited for the financial year in which payment is made, with the following allowance, to be designated ‘Corps Contingent Allowance’:—”

is cancelled and the following substituted therefor: —

“Subject to provision being made by Parliament, and after approval of the Minister upon the recommendation of the Military Board, Officers Commanding Militia Regiments or Corps (excluding Head-quarters of Light Horse and Infantry Brigades) shall be credited for the financial year in which payment is made, with the following allowance, to be designated ‘Corps Contingent Allowance’:—”

Regulation 230.—The sub-paragraph, reading as follows: —

“Notwithstanding this Regulation, Officers below the rank of Major attached to District Head-quarters or Command Staffs may be paid at the rate of 5s. per diem.”

is cancelled and the following substituted therefor:—

“Notwithstanding this Regulation, Officers below the rank of Major attached to District Head-quarters may be paid at the rate of 5s. per diem.”

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