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

STATUTORY RULES

1915. No. 34.

 

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1914.

Financial and Allowance Regulations for the Military Forces of the Commonwealth—Regulations 28 and 122—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 make the Regulations to come into operation forthwith 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 28, which reads as follows:—

“28. He shall not apply public moneys to any purpose not authorized by Regulations, nor shall he advance, except as hereinafter provided, lend, or exchange, any sums for which he is accountable, nor shall he exchange private cheques out of public funds. In the case of members of the Forces travelling on duty, where extended absence is probable, and cash payments exceeding a total sum of £5 have to be made, an advance may be made up to 75 per cent. of the maximum allowance that can be claimed.

Married Warrant and Non-commissioned Officers who are frequently required to travel on duty may be granted a standing advance of Three pounds, which must be adjusted on or before the 31st May of the financial year in which the advance is made.”

is cancelled, and the following substituted therefor:—

“28. He shall not apply public moneys to any purpose not authorized by Regulations, nor shall he advance, except as hereinafter provided, lend, or exchange, any sums for which he is

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accountable, nor shall he exchange private cheques out of public funds. In the case of members of the Forces travelling on duty, where extended absence is probable, and cash payments have to be made, in advance may be made up to 75 per cent. of the maximum allowance that can be claimed.

Married Warrant and Non-commissioned Officers who are frequently required to travel on duty may be granted a standing advance of Three pounds, which must be adjusted on or before the 31st May of the financial year in which the advance is made.”

Regulation 122—

Sub-paragraph, (a) (as amended by Statutory Rule 321 of 1913) which reads—

“(a) Subject to provision being made by Parliament, pay for the parades attended in accordance with the Regulations for efficiency shall be granted to officers and soldiers serving in the Militia at the rates laid down in Regulations 109, 110, and 111, except that any person provisionally appointed on and after the 1st January, 1914, to commissioned rank in the Citizen Forces, other than to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant, will only be granted the pay prescribed for the next lower rank until such time as he shall have qualified for the rank to which he has been appointed and his provisional appointment has been confirmed.”

is cancelled, and the following substituted therefor:—

“(a) Subject to provision being made by Parliament, pay for the parades attended in accordance with the Regulations for efficiency shall be granted to officers and soldiers serving in the Militia of the rates laid down in Regulations 132, 133, and 134, except that any person provisionally appointed on and after the 1st January, 1914, to commissioned rank in the Citizen Forces, other than to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant and with the exception of officers of the Australian Army Medical Corps and Australian Army Veterinary Corps, shall only be granted the pay prescribed for the next lower rank until such time as he shall have qualified for the rank to which he has been appointed and his provisional appointment has been confirmed.”

 

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