Military Financial Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1936. No. 98.

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REGULATION UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903‑1934.*

I, THE Deputy of 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 Twenty second day of July , 1936.

 

Deputy of the Governor‑General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Defence.

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Amendment of Military Financial Regulations. 

Child endowment eligibility.

1. Regulation 50 of the Military Financial Regulations is amended in sub‑regulation (ii) by omitting paragraph (f) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

“(f) The allowance shall not be reduced during any absence from duty on reduced pay, except that, if a member is granted furlough on half pay, payment of the allowance shall be made at half rates during the period on half pay. In the case of a member who is absent on sick leave without pay, payment of the allowance for which he would have been eligible but for his being on sick leave without pay, may be continued. During absence on leave without pay of any kind, other than sick leave, the allowance shall cease to operate.”

2. Regulation 53 of the Military Financial Regulations is repealed, and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Partial reimbursement of fares when on leave from District Allowance localities.

“53. (i) In the cases of members of the Permanent Forces stationed in localities classified for the purposes of District Allowances, partial reimbursement of fares paid by those members for themselves, their wives and families, when travelling on recreation leave or on furlough, may be approved by the formation, &c., commander, subject to the following conditions:—

(a) A married member whose family resides with him at his station may, provided his wife and children (if any), under the age of fourteen years, travel with him on his recreation leave or furlough, be granted:—

(i) in the case of an officer or warrant officer, Class 1a—an amount equal to the excess beyond £15 on first class return fares between his station and the nearest capital city or other destination of less distance.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  1936.

  Statutory Rules, 1935. No. 83, as amended by Statutory Rules, 1935, Nos. 102 and 123; and 1936, Nos. 1, 32, 62 and 75.

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(ii) in the case of a warrant officer, Class 1, or member of lower rank—an amount equal to the excess beyond £10 on second class return fares between his station and the nearest capital city or other destination of less distance.

(b)A married member travelling alone or an unmarried member journeying on recreation leave or furlough may be granted—

(i) in the case of an officer or warrant officer, Class 1a—an amount equal to the excess beyond £10 on first class return fares between his station and the nearest capital city or other destination of less distance.

(ii) in the case of a warrant officer, Class 1, or member of lower rank—an amount equal to the excess beyond £6 13s. 4d. on second class return fares between his station and the nearest capital city or other destination of less distance.

(c) A member who elects to travel, while on recreation leave or furlough, a greater distance than is represented by the distance between his station and the nearest capital city, may be granted the amount which would have been allowed him had he elected to travel only to the capital city.

(d)A member appointed or transferred to a locality classified for the purpose of District Allowance for a definite period of three years or less, shall not be granted partial reimbursement of fares under this regulation.

(e) Partial reimbursement of fares in accordance with this regulation shall not be granted to a member more than once in every three years.

(ii) Notwithstanding anything contained in this regulation, if a member, whose period of transfer to and service at a locality classified for the purposes of District Allowance is not less than three years, proceeds on recreation leave or furlough, the cost of fares to and from the capital city of the State in which he was stationed prior to such transfer, in excess of the amounts specified in sub‑paragraphs (a) or (b)of sub‑regulation (i) of this regulation, as the case may be, may be granted to him, subject to the approval of the Military Board, provided that the member returns at the expiration of his leave or furlough for a further period of duty at the locality from which his recreation leave or furlough commenced.

Specialists’ pay.

3. Regulation 154 of the Military Financial Regulations is amended by inserting next after paragraph (b)the following paragraph:—

“(c) To each qualified specialist of the field engineers below the rank of corporal in accordance with the numbers in the authorized establishments.”

D.F.O.’s powers re writing off.

4. Regulation 258 of the Military Financial Regulations is amended by inserting next after the word “officer” the words:—

“, with the concurrence of the formation, &c., commander concerned,”.

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