National Security (Military Forces) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 240.

REGULATION UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939–1940.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the National Security Act 1939–1940.

Dated this twenty seventh day of May, 1942.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence.

 

Amendment of the National Security (Military Forces) Regulations.

The National Security (Military Forces) Regulations are amended by adding at the end thereof the following regulation:—

“Adjustment of ranks of officers.

16.—(1.) An officer whose appointment in an Expeditionary Force raised for service beyond the limits of the Commonwealth is terminated may, upon his transfer or appointment to another part of the Military Forces, be given such rank, not being lower than that held by him immediately prior to the commencement of his service with the Expeditionary Force, and such regimental seniority as the Governor-General, on the recommendation of the Military Board, approves:

Provided that an officer who, prior to his appointment to the Expeditionary Force, was an officer of the Permanent Military Forces (exclusive of any part of those Forces raised in time of war for war service) shall not be given a rank lower than the substantive rank held by him in his regiment or corps at the date of the Governor-General’s approval.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1942.

  Statutory Rules 1941, No. 1, as amended by Statutory Rules 1941, Nos. 10, 202, 294 and 295; and 1942, Nos. 24, 42, 104, 135, 156 and 187.

2218.—Price 3d. 25/28.4.1942.

 

“(2.) An officer of the Permanent Military Forces (exclusive of any part of those Forces raised in time of war for war service) who has been seconded for service with the Citizen Forces shall, upon ceasing to be so seconded and reverting to the first-mentioned Forces, be given such rank, not being lower than the substantive rank held by him in his corps at the date upon which he ceased to be seconded, as the Governor-General, on the recommendation of the Military Board, approves.

“(3.) For the purposes of this regulation, the Governor-General may, when he considers actual hostilities in the present war to have ceased, fix a date for the general adjustment of the ranks of all officers of the Military Forces and may give to each officer, as from that date, such rank and regimental seniority as, on the recommendation of the Military Board, he determines:

Provided that—

(a) an officer of the Permanent Military Forces (exclusive of any part of those Forces raised in time of war for war service) shall not be given a rank lower than the substantive rank held by him in his regiment or corps at that date; and

(b) an officer of the Citizen Military Forces shall not be given a rank lower than the substantive rank held by him at the commencement of his war service.

“(4.) Notwithstanding anything in this regulation, an officer of the Military Forces who was not an officer immediately prior to the commencement of his war service shall not be given a rank lower than the commissioned rank to which he was first appointed.”.

 

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