Military Financial Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1941. No. 306.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903–1941.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Defence Act 1903–1941.

Dated this Seventeenth day of December, 1941.

Governor-General.

By his Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for the Army.

 

Amendments of the Military Financial Regulations. 

1. After regulation 105 of the Military Financial Regulations, the following heading and regulations are inserted:—

“Provision of Spectacles.

Members of the Permanent Forces.

105a. If the vision of a member of the Permanent Military Forces becomes defective and an officer of the Australian Army Medical Corps certifies that, in his opinion, the symptoms of the member may be relieved, his eyesight conserved or his discharge avoided by the use of suitable spectacles, the member may be supplied with spectacles at Commonwealth expense.

Members of the Citizen Forces

105b. If the vision of a member of the Citizen Forces becomes defective as the result of an injury contracted on duty or a disability directly attributable to the conditions of his military service and an officer of the Australian Army Medical Corps certifies that, in his opinion, the symptoms of the member may be relieved and his eyesight conserved by the use of suitable spectacles, the member may be supplied with spectacles at Commonwealth expense.

Replacement.

105c. (i) If the spectacles of a member are, in the course of his duty, lost, broken or damaged accidentally or in circumstances beyond the member’s control, they may be replaced or repaired at Commonwealth expense.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1941.

  Statutory Rules 1935, No. 83, as amended by Statutory Rules 1935, Nos. 102 and 123; 1936, Nos. 1, 32, 62, 75, 98, 111, 122, 144 and 158; 1937. Nos. 1, 22, 29, 42, 71, 76, 96 and 113; 1938, Nos. 11, 15, 45, 76, 89, 96, 98 and 122; 1939, Nos. 82, 132, 133, 135 and 159; 1940, Nos. 39, 68, 76, 204, 211 and 253; and 1941, Nos. 13, 30, 50, 109, 154 and 216.

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(ii) If the spectacles of a member are lost, broken or damaged owing to the member’s negligence or his default of duty, they may be replaced or repaired at Commonwealth expense but the cost of replacement or repair may be deducted from any pay which is or becomes due to the member.”.

Certificates as to satisfactory performance of duties.

2. Regulation 132 of the Military Financial Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (ii) the words “Chief of the General Staff” and inserting in their stead the words “General Officer Commanding”.

Diets in Military detention barracks, prisons, and barrack detention rooms.

3. Regulation 227 of the Military Financial Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting the words “The scale of diets, whether confined in military detention barracks or prisons, shall be as follows” and inserting in their stead the words “The standard ration for a soldier undergoing sentence in a detention barrack or military prison shall be as specified in the following table:—”;

(b) by omitting from Scale 1 in that regulation the figure “4” in the column headed “Vegetables” and inserting in its stead the figure “6”; and

(c) by adding at the end of that regulation, the following sub-regulation:—

“(ii) Soldiers entitled to the standard ration specified in Scale 1 in the table in sub-regulation (i) of this regulation shall also be provided, twice weekly, with one piece of fresh fruit (either an apple or an orange) in season.”.

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.