Military Forces (Women's Services) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)
STATUTORY RULES.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1941.*
I,
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australiaacting with the advice of the
Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the
Dated this twenty-seventh day of January, 1944.
GOWRIE
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
F. M. FORDE
Minister of State for the Army.
Amendments of the Military Forces (Women’s Services) Regulations.
“12a. In the selection of a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service for promotion, first consideration shall be given to the relative efficiency and professional qualifications of the members available for promotion; in the event of two or more members being equal in efficiency and professional qualifications, preference shall be given to a member who has served outside the limits of the Commonwealth or in an area within the Commonwealth declared by the officer appointed to command the Military Forces in time of war to be a theatre of operations; and in the event of two or more of such members being entitled to equal consideration, having regard to their relative efficiency, professional qualifications and service, preference shall be given in accordance with the relative seniority of those members.”.
“29. Members of the Australian Women’s Army Service may be appointed to be Supervisory Personnel who shall carry out such duties in relation to the discipline and good order of members of the Australian Women’s Army Service and the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service as the Military Board directs.
“30. Without derogating from any other powers of arrest possessed by members of the Forces, an officer of a Supervisory Personnel section or any member of any Supervisory Personnel section may arrest and
* Notified in
the
Statutory Rules 1943, No. 68, as amended by Statutory Rules 1943, No. 243.
7857.—Price 3d.
detain for disciplinary action any officer or soldier of the Australian Women’s Army Service or the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service, liable to arrest within the meaning of regulation 221 of the Australian Military Regulations, who commits an offence against the Defence Act or any regulation made under the Defence Act or against the Army Act.
“31.—(1.) An officer of a Supervisory Personnel section may authorize any member of a Supervisory Personnel section to give to soldiers of the Australian Women’s Army Service and Australian Army Medical Women’s Service such orders as she considers necessary for the maintenance of discipline and good order.
(2.) Soldiers of the Australian Women’s Army Service or the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service shall, notwithstanding that they are of superior rank, obey the orders given by members of a Supervisory Personnel section authorized under the last preceding sub-regulation to give such orders.
(3.) Officers of the Australian Women’s Army Service or the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service of whatever rank shall comply with any order given by an officer of a Supervisory Personnel section.
(4.) Any act or omission in contravention of this regulation shall be deemed to be an offence within the meaning of paragraph (Ix) of sub-regulation (1.) of regulation 203 of the Australian Military Regulations or section 40 of the Army Act, but this sub-regulation shall not derogate from any other provision of the Australian Military Regulations or the Army Act under which any such act or omission is, in its particular circumstances, constituted a specific offence punishable under those Regulations or that Act, as the case may be.”.
By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.
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