Naval Establishments Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1920. No. 49.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATAL DEFENCE ACT 1910-1918.

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 1910-1918, to come into operation on and from 1st May, 1919.

Dated this twenty-fourth day of March, 1920.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. H. LAIRD SMITH,

for Minister of State for the Navy.

 

Amendment of Naval Establishments Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1916, No. 243, as amended by Statutory Rules 1918, Nos. 180 and 300, and 1919, Nos. 2, and 62.)

1. Regulation 77 is repealed and the following regulation is inserted in its stead:—

Entry of apprentices.

“77. (1) Apprentices to the various trades at the Naval Dockyards and Establishments shall be entered from candidates who pass a competitive examination, and who comply with the conditions of entry, which shall be prescribed by the Naval Board.

Transfers from private establishments.

(2) Until such time as entries made from candidates who pass the educational examination meet requirements, boys may be specially entered by transfer from private establishments to such trades where a vacancy exists, and which can not be filled from candidates who succeeded in passing the educational examination, provided such boys can produce satisfactory evidence of having attained an educational standard at least equivalent to that laid down in the Conditions of Entry for the trade in question, and are also able to pass the prescribed medical test.

Age of entry.

(3) Candidates for examination must not be less than fourteen years of age upon 31st March of the year following that in which the examination is held, and must not have attained the age of sixteen years upon that date.

(4) Boys entered under sub-regulation (2) must produce their indenture to the private establishment, together with adequate reason for the proposed transfer, for consideration and recommendation by the Apprenticeship Committee. Appointments will be made by the Naval Board upon the recommendation of the Committee.

Nationality.

(5) Candidates must be of pure European descent, and the sons of natural-born British subjects.”

2. Paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (1) of regulation 78 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following:—

“The standard of eye-sight must, not be less than 6/9 in each eye without glasses, or 6/12corrected in each eye to normal by glasses.”

3. Regulation 78 is amended by inserting after paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (1) the following paragraphs:—

“(d) Each candidate should possess sufficient teeth, natural or artificial, with which he can masticate his food and keep himself in good health.

(e) There is no definite standard for height or chest, but candidates should be of good general physique.”

4. Regulation 80a is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(2) Apprentices who are late in attendance at their workshops or the Technical College on 12 occasions or more during the year will not be granted the allowance provided for in sub-regulation (1) of this regulation.”

5. Regulation 84 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(2) In the case of apprentices who are in possession of scholarships at the Technical College, such text-books and instruments, to the value of twenty-five shillings per annum, as the Superintendent of the Technical College may consider desirable that they should have, will be paid for by the Department of the Navy.”

 

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