Military Financial Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1937. No. 113.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1934.*

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 1903-1934.

Dated this Eighth day of December, 1937.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Defence.

 

Amendments of the Military Financial Regulations. 

1. Regulation 19 of the Military Financial Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Increments—antedating of.

“19. Where a prescribed condition for the payment of any increment is the passing of an examination for promotion to higher rank, or the qualifying at any test, or the obtaining of any certificate, and an opportunity is not afforded to an officer or soldier of fulfilling that prescribed condition before the date on which he is otherwise eligible, the increment (though not payable until the condition be fulfilled) shall, when approved, be antedated to the date on which the officer or soldier was otherwise eligible:

Provided that—

(a) the prescribed condition is fulfilled on the first opportunity afforded; and

(b) the Military Board may, in the case of an officer or soldier who proceedsabroad on duty, waive any prescribed condition mentioned in this regulation, but, notwithstanding any such waiver, no further increment shall be paid after the return to Australia of the officer or soldier until the prescribed condition be fulfilled.”

Warrant Officers, A.I.C.

2. Regulation 35 of the Military Financial Regulations is amended by omitting the proviso to sub-regulation (ii).

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1937.

  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 ; and 1937, Nos. 1, 22, 29, 42, 71, 76 and 96.

 

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

5323.—25/27.9.1937.—Price 3d.