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

STATUTORY RULES.

1913. No. 269.

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PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903–1912.

Regulations (Provisional) for the Military Forces of the Commonwealth—Regulation 163—Addition.

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, andmake the Regulation to come into operation forthwith as a Provisional Regulation.

Dated this fifteenth day of October, One thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

DENMAN,

Governor-General,

By His Excellency’s Command,

E. D. MILLEN.

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Regulation (Provisional) for the Military Forces of the Commonwealth.

Addition.

After Regulation 162, insert the following new Regulation:—

Appointment of Persons Employed in the Defence Department under the Public Service Act, to Positions of a Non-combatant Nature under the Defence Act.

163. In the case of a member of the Commonwealth Public Service employed in the Department of Defence who maybe appointed to a position under the Defence Act, the duties of which are of a non-combatant nature, and who, consequent on such appointment, is required to be enlisted for a prescribed period in the Permanent Military Forces, the prescribed period of engagement shall be until such time as he reaches the prescribed age for retirement under the Public Service Act—subject to the provisions of Commonwealth Military Regulation 188, and in the case of the person enlisted the right of resignation at any time on giving three months’ notice in writing to his Commanding Officer of this intention to claim his discharge under this Regulation.

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