Military College of Australia Regulations (Provisional) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1911. No. 16.

 

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1910.

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 1903-1910 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulation to come into operation forthwith as Provisional Regulations.

Dated this fifteenth day of February, One thousand nine hundred and eleven.

DUDLEY,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE.

 

REGULATIONS FOR THE MILITARY COLLEGE OF AUSTRALIA.

I.—OBJECT OF THE COLLEGE.

Section 141.

1. The Military College of Australia is established under authority of the Defence Act 1910 to educate candidates for commissions in all arms of the Military Forces of the Commonwealth.

II.—CONDITIONS OF SERVICE.

2. Only candidates who intend to make the Military Forces their profession in life will be admitted as Cadets to the Military College. Parents or guardians are therefore not at liberty to withdraw their sons or wards at will.

Defence Act, section 147a.

3. Cadets on joining the Military College shall be enlisted in the Permanent Military Forces for a term of twelve years except Cadets from New Zealand, who shell be enlisted for five years. Service as a Cadet at the Military College shall be deemed service in the ranks of the Permanent Military Forces of the Commonwealth.

4. Under no circumstances will a cadet, if he joins under para. 6 (i), be allowed to remain at the College more than five years or more than four years if he joins under para. 6 (ii).

Defence Act, section 148

5. Commonwealth Cadets who pass the final examination will be eligible for promotion to the rank of Lieutenant in any Regiment, Corps, or Department of the Military Forces of the Commonwealth, the duties of which they are reported competent to perform.

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III.—ADMISSION.

Conditions of Eligibility.

6 (i). To be eligible for admission to the College as a Cadet, a candidate must—

(a) at the date of the entrance examination and at the date appointed for joining the College, be free from any disease or the effects of any disease or from any physical defect that would be likely to render him unfit for Military Service;

(b) be unmarried;

Defence Act, section 147s.

(c) be a natural-born British subject, who has resided in the Commonwealth, or whose parents or guardians haveresided in the Commonwealth for the year immediately preceding the date of the entrance examination, or be nominated by the Government of the Dominion of New Zealand;

(d) be in his seventeenth, eighteenth or nineteenth year of, age, that is to say, his sixteenth birthday must fall on or before the 1st March in the year in which he joins the College, and his nineteenth birthday must fall after that date:

Defence Act, section 148.

(ii) Provided that notwithstanding anything in this Regulation, any member of the Forces over the age of nineteen years who passes the prescribed examination and is recommended by the Governor-General in Council may be admitted to the College.

7. Every candidate must furnish with his application for admission—

(i) a certified extract from the register of his birth; or, if this cannot he obtained, a certificate of his baptism or other documentary evidence accompanied by a statutory declaration made by one of his parents or guardians before a justice of the peace, stating the exact date of birth;

(ii) a certificate of good moral character signed by the clergyman of the place of worship he usually attends, or by the head of the school or college at which he has received his education forat least the two preceding years, or in the case of a member of the forces by his commanding officer.

Selection of Candidates

8. Vacancies at the College for Commonwealth Cadets under nineteen years of age will be allotted to the States of the Commonwealth on the basis of population, and the candidates from each State will compete among themselves. The number of vacancies will be published in the Commonwealth Gazette. Candidates will only be eligible for vacancies allotted to the State in which their parents or guardians have their permanent residence, provided that in the event of the number of qualified candidates from any State being less than the number of vacancies allotted to such State, such vacancies will be offered to candidates, in their order of merit, who have qualified at the same examination but have

not obtained a Cadetship. The order of merit will be determined by adding together the whole of the marks obtained by each candidate in the examination.

9. Only those candidates eligible under para. 6 (i) will be admitted to the College as Cadets who are successful at an open Competitiveexamination, and have passed the prescribed medical examination. The names of successful candidates and the total number of marks gained by each will be published in the Commonwealth Gazette.

10. (i) A Candidate over nineteen years ofage before being admitted to the College as a Cadet must—

(a) be a member of the forces.

(b) pass theexamination in both military and civil subjects and the medical examination prescribed for candidates over nineteen years of age.

(c) be recommended by the Governor-General in Council.

(ii) Every application for admission by a candidate over nineteen years of age will be reported on to the Minister by a Board consisting of the Inspector-General and the Commandant of the College before being submitted to the Governor-General in Council.

Date of Admission.

11. Cadets will only be admitted at the beginning of the Autumn term. Entrance examinations will be held once a year, of which notice will be given in the Commonwealth Gazette.

Attestation.

12. (i) Every Cadet shall truly answer the questions on the Form of Attestation, and shall sign the declaration at the foot thereof, and shall take before the Commandant, or an Officer authorized by him, the oath of enlistment set out on such form.

(ii) The Form of Attestation shall be in accordance with the Form in Appendix I. of these Regulations, provided that the Form of Attestation may contain additional matter relating to the Cadet or his service.

Defence Act section 147 (1)

IV.—COMMAND.

13. The Military College shall be under the control of a Commandant who shall be a Military Officer. He will report directly to the Minister of State for Defence on all matters concerning the College.

14. In the absence of the Commandant the senior Director will assume command of the College, and in the absence of a Director, the Senior Instructor present. No civil member of the Staff may exercise any Military Command.

15. Units and members of the Military Forces may be attached to, or detailed for duty at the College, and shall be under the command of the Commandant.

V.— ESTABLISHMENT AND ORGANIZATION.

Defence Act, section 147a.

16. The Cadets at the Military College shall form a Corps, to be designated the “Corps of Staff Cadets.” It will form part of the Permanent Military Forces of the Commonwealth.

17. The establishment of the Corps, including Cadets from the Dominion of New Zealand, shall be 150.

18. The Corps of Staff Cadets shall be organized on the lines of a battalion of infantry. The Officers of the Corps shall be appointed in Military College Orders. Military members of the Staff may be detailed as Officers of the Corps.

VI.—STAFF.

19. The establishment of the Staff shall be as follows:—

Instructional.		Administration.
Military	Civil
2 Directors	5 Professors	1 Adjutant.
6 Instructors	2 Lecturers.	1 Quartermaster
1 Medical Officer.

and such Warrant and Non-Commissioned Officers, and other persons as may be approved.

20. The duties of the Staff will be prescribed in Military College Standing Orders.

21. Military members of the Staff may, with the consent of the Commandant, be detailed for temporary duty under the Inspector-General or with troops.

22. Cadets may be detailed by the Commandant as Assistant Instructors, and also to perform duty with troops.

23. The Commandant shall have power to suspend any member of the Staff, or employee pending the result of a report to the Minister of Defence.

Precedence.

24. Directors will rank among themselves according to their rank and dates of commissions, and will have precedence over other members of the Staff. Professors will have precedence as Majors and Lecturers as Captains in the Military Forces. Military and Civil members of the Staff will rank among themselves according to grade and date of appointment to that grade on the College Staff. The Medical Officer, if not a member of the A.A.M.C., will have precedence and privileges of a Captain.

25. The seniority of Cadets will be determined as follows:—

(a) Non-Commissioned Officers according to rank and date of appointment to that rank, and to be senior to all other Cadets,

(b)Cadets on joining take seniority according to their position in the entrance list, and subsequently according to precedence of their classes and their position in these classes as determined by the aggregate of marks they may have obtained at the College from the date of joining to the termination of their last annual examination.

(c) Cadets on leaving according to the aggregate of all marks gained while at the College.

VII.—THE INSTRUCTIONAL STAFF.

26. All members of the Instructional Staff of the College shall at any time, if required, be prepared to afford assistance in other branches of instruction outside their own.

27. The Professors will give instruction in their several departments, conduct such examinations as may be prescribed, and take such share in the administrative work of the College as may be assigned to them.

28. Officers, Professors, and Lecturers are responsible for the regular and orderly conduct of their respective classes, or sections, while under their immediate instruction. They are accountable for all books, instruments, and apparatus that may be supplied to them for the performance of their duties.

29. Civil members of the Staff are required to devote the whole of their time, except when on leave, to the work of their respective departments, and shall not engage in any other profession or business,

30.The duration of the appointment of a Professor or Lecturer shall be five years, provided that at any time aProfessor or Lecturer on the one hand, or the Minister of Defence on the other, may terminate the engagement by giving six months’ notice.

31. The tenure of the office of Civil members of the Staff shall depend upon their good behaviour. They may at any time be suspended or removed for misconduct, of which the Commandant shall be the sole judge.

32. Officers, Professors and Lecturers will not be permitted to prepare candidates for admission to the College, nor to give private instruction on payment to Cadets, either during the vacation or at any other time.