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

statutory rules.

1913. No. 168.

 

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903–1912.

Enlistment—New Regulation—167.

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 make the Regulation to come into operation forthwith as a Provisional Regulation.

Dated this seventeenth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

DENMAN,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE.

 

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

Addition.

Enlistment.

Insert new Regulation—

“167. Boys between the ages of fourteen and seventeen years may be enlisted in the Permanent Forces for service asmusicians, trumpeters, and buglers, subject to being passed as medically fit, and their probable physical fitness under Regulation 165 on reaching the age of eighteen years.

Boys soenlisted shall be entitled to a free discharge on the date on which they attain the age of eighteen years, or within a period of three months after such date, provided that they give to their Commanding Officer, beforehand, not less than one month’s notice, in writing, of their intention to claim their discharge under this Regulation.”

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