Military Financial Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1941. No. 216.

 

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 twenty Eighth

day of august   , 1941.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for the Army.

 

Amendments of the Military Financial Regulations. 

Higher Appointments.

1. Regulation 28 of the Military Financial Regulations is amended by inserting in the table in sub-regulation (i), after the words and figures—

“Master-General of the Ordnance.................................................................. 1,250”

the following words and figures:—

“Inspector-General of Medical Services........................................................	1,500
Director-General of Medical Services..........................................................	1,500”.

Entitlement.

2. Regulation 80 of the Military Financial Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (ii) the words “of Queensland, South Australia, and Western Australia” and inserting in their stead the words “in any part of the Commonwealth”;

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (vi) the words “of the Permanent Forces”; and

(c) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(vii) Members of the Permanent Forces and non-commissioned officers of the Citizen Forces who are provided with second-class rail accommodation while travelling to and from schools or courses of instruction may be provided with second-class sleeping accommodation, if available, on any journey which necessitates two or more consecutive nights’ travelling on the narrow-gauge lines in any part of the Commonwealth.”.

* 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 and 154.

4779.—22/30.7.1941.—Price 3d.

3. Regulation 122 of the Military Financial Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Compensation to minors.

“122. Compensation payable in accordance with regulation 113 or 117 of these Regulations to a member of the Permanent or of the Militia Forces, as the case may be, who is under the age of twenty-one years may, in the discretion of the Military Board, be paid either to the member himself, or, on his behalf, to a person or persons approved by the Military Board, and the receipt of the person to whom payment is made shall constitute an absolute discharge to the Commonwealth in respect of any compensation so payable.”.

 

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