Naval Establishments Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1948. No. 42.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910-1934.*

 

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Naval Defence Act 1910-1934.

Dated this twenty-fifth day of March, 1948.

W. J. McKELL

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for the Navy.

Amendments of the Naval Establishments Regulations. 

1. After regulation 57 of the Naval Establishments Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Emoluments Included in “ salary ”, meaning of “ service ” for purposes of regulations 56 and 67.

“ 57a.—(1.) For the purposes of regulation 56s and 57 of these Regulations, “ salary ” shall include the following emoluments :—

(a)Fixed annual allowances granted to an officer for the performance of duties additional to those of the position occupied ;

(b)Allowance payable to an officer in respect of the performance of higher duties than those incident to the scale of salary of his classified office where the officer has performed or, but for his absence on authorized leave, would have performed the higher duties for not less than twelve months immediately preceding the date upon which he commences furlough or ceases to be an officer of the Service and, in the case of an officer granted furlough, he is to retire at the expiration of the furlough;

(c) Merit money ;

(d) Leading Hand rate ;

(e) Magazine Salary ;

(f) District Allowance in any case where during furlough an officer remains in the district in respect of which the allowance is payable or, in the case of a married officer, his family, during his absence from the district, remains in that district ; and

(g)Allowance payable to the driver of a motor lorry under the relevant Determination of the Public Service Arbitrator: provided that any such allowance has been paid to

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1948.—Nineteenth amendment.

  Statutory Rules 1936, No. 107, as amended by Statutory Rules 1937, Nos. 16, 52 and 63 ; 1938, No. 16 ; 1939, Nos. 3, 10 and 85 ; 1940, No. 196 ; 1941, Nos.58 and 144 ; 1942, Nos. 118, 181 and 414 ; 1944, Nos. 97, 142 and 183 ; and 1947, Nos. 136 and 139.

7696.—Price 3d. 10/17.2.1948.

the officer concerned for at least two-thirds of his working time in the twelve months preceding the date upon which his furlough commences or payment is to be made in lieu of furlough.

“ (2.) For the purposes of regulations 56 and 57 of these Regulations, “ service ” includes, in addition to any service which, by virtue of these Regulations, is reckoned for the purposes of these Regulations as service under these Regulations any service (not being so reckoned) which would, if the officer were a Commonwealth employee within the meaning of the Commonwealth Employee’s Furlough Act 1943-1944, be reckoned as part of his period of service for the purposes of that Act.”.

Short leave and leave for examinations.

2. Regulation 62 of the Naval Establishments Regulations is amended by omitting the proviso to sub-regulation (2.).

Basis of calculation of allowances of officers and employees.

3. Regulation 74 of the Naval Establishments Regulations is amended by adding at the end of sub-regulation (1.) the words “ or by marginal increases granted by a determination of the Public Service Arbitrator ”.

Rates of travelling allowances.

4. Regulation 75 of the Naval Establishments Regulations is amended by omitting the table contained in sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following table :—

“ Where Maximum Salary of Position is—	Allowance Capital Cities.						Allowance other than Capital Cities.
	First twenty-one days’ residence.		After twenty-one days’ residence.				First-twenty-one days’ residence		After twenty-one days’ residence.
			Married Officer.		Unmarried Officer.				Married Officer.		Unmarried Officer.
per day.		per week.		per week.		per day.		per week.		per week.
s.	d.	s.	d.	s.	d.	s.	d.	s.	d.	s.	d.
Officers.
£396 and under	18	6	70	0	45	0	15	0	55	0	35	0
£397 to £720 ..	21	0	80	0	50	0	17	6	65	0	40	0
£721 to £1,012	25	0	90	0	60	0	20	0	75	0	50	0
Over £1,012 ..	30	0	105	0	65	0	25	0	90	0	60	0
Employees.
.............................	18	6	70	0	45	0	15	0	55	0	35	0 ”

Allowances to officers working within defined districts.

5. Regulation 76 of the Naval Establishments Regulations is amended by omitting the table contained in sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following table :—

“ Where Maximum Salary of Position is—	Where the Period of Continuous Residence at a Temporary Station is—
	Less than one week.		One week or more.
			Married Officers.		Unmarried Officers.
					First week.		After first week.
per day.		per week.		per week.		per week.
s.	d.	s.	d.	s.	d.	s.	d.
£396 and under ..	15	0	55	0	55	0	35	0
Over £396 ............................	17	6	65	0	65	0	40	0 ”

Commencement.

6.—(1.) Regulation 1 of these Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on the twenty-ninth day of March, 1943.

(2.) Regulation 2 of these Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on the fifteenth day of January, 1947.

(3.) Regulations 3, 4 and 5 of these Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on the third day of September, 1947.

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