Military Forces of the Commonwealth Regulations (Amendment) (Provisional) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1912. No. 237.

 

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903–1912.

Regulations (Provisional) for the Military Forces of the Commonwealth—Addition—Regulation 311a.

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 Regulation under the Defence Act 1903–1912 should come into immediate operation, and, further, should be taken to have come into operation on and from the first day of July, 1911, and make the Regulation to come into operation accordingly as a Provisional Regulation.

Dated this twelfth day of December, One thousand nine hundred and twelve.

DENMAN,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE.

 

REGULATIONS (PROVISIONAL) FOR THE MILITARY FORCES OF THE COMMONWEALTH.

Amendment.

After Regulation 311, add new Regulation 311a.

“311A. Where a member of the Commonwealth Military Forces has been found guilty by a Court-martial of the offence of desertion, the Court-martial may, in addition to the penalty provided for that offence, order that any moneys or other property found on, or in the possession of, the deserter may be applied—

(a) in payment of any fines which have been imposed on the deserter under the Defence Act or Regulations; and

(b) in payment of any amount which he has been ordered to pay under paragraph (c) of section 97 of the Defence Act 1903–1912.

 

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