Naval Establishments Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1937. No. 63.

 

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 ninth day of June, 1937.

(SGD) GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Acting Minister of State for Defence.

 

Amendment of Naval Establishments Regulations. 

Furlough.

1.Regulation 56 of the Naval Establishments Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting after the word “absence” in sub-regulation (3) the words “or if the Naval Board, after consideration of all the circumstances, directs that the death of an officer so eligible be presumed”; and

(b) by adding at the end of sub-regulation (3) the words or, in any case where the Naval Board has directed that the death of the officer be presumed, a date determined by the Naval Board.”.

Extended leave on retirement when ineligible for furlough.

2.Regulation 57 of the Naval Establishments Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (4) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(4) Where, before an officer has completed twenty years’ service in the Commonwealth Service and either before or after he has attained the age of sixty years—

(a) the officer dies; or

(b) the Naval Board, after consideration of all the circumstances, directs that the death of the officer be presumed;

the Naval Board may authorize payment to the dependants of the officer of a sum equivalent to the salary for the period of leave which the officer would have received had he, under sub-regulation (1) of this regulation, been eligible for, and been granted, leave of absence at the date of his death, or, in any case where the Naval Board has directed that the death of the officer be presumed, at a date determined by the Naval Board.”

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1937.

  Statutory Rules 1936, No. 107, as amended by Statutory Rules 1937, Nos. 16 and 52.

 

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

2608.—9/25.5.1937.—Price 3d.