Naval Financial Regulations 1926 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1946. No. 31.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1945 AND 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 Defence Act 1903-1945 and the Naval Defence Act 1910-1934.

 

Dated this twentieth day of February, 1946.

HENRY

Governor-General.

By His Royal Highness’s Command,

ARTHUR S. DRAKEFORD

Acting Minister of State for the Navy.

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Amendments of the Naval Financial Regulations. 

Officers of and promoted from Warrant Rank.

1. Regulation 21 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by inserting, after sub-regulation (1.), the following sub-regulations:—

“(1a.) The daily rates of Active Pay and the conditions of payment prescribed by regulation 15 or regulation 15a, as the case may be, of these Regulations shall, subject to sub-regulation (1c.) of this regulation, apply in relation to an officer specially selected and promoted direct from Warrant Rank or from Commissioned Officer from Warrant Rank to the rankof Lieutenant or Lieutenant (E).

“(1b.) The seniority for the purpose of increments in pay in the rank or relative rank of Lieutenant of an officer of the class specified in the last preceding sub-regulation shall be adjusted to permit the following service to count:—

(i) One half of his service from the date of his promotion to Warrant Rank to the date of his selection for promotion to the rank or relative rank of Lieutenant; and

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 21st February, 1946.—Eighty-eighth amendment

  Statutory Rules 1926. No. 198, as amended by Statutory Rules 1927, Nos. 23, 59, and 192; 1928. Nos. 18, 49, 87 and 138; 1929, Nos. 35, 64, 90 and 136; 1930, Nos. 30, 88 and 153; 1931, Nos. 52 and 97; 1932, Nos. 32, 33, 78 and 89; 1933, Nos. 5, 50, 100 and 130; 1934, Nos. 32, 44, 58, 108 and 118; 1935, Nos. 6, 27, 86, 110 and 135; 1936, Nos. 40, 70, 77, 118 and 150; 1937, Nos. 5, 51 and 80; 1938, Nos. 17, 47, 66, 92, 116 and 121; 1939, Nos. 28. 53, 70, 71 and 131; 1940, Nos. 3, 124, 209, 225 and 254; 1941, Nos. 22, 89, 152, 285 and 308; 1942, Nos. 27, 95, 116, 117, 284, 330 and 544; 1943, No, 217; 1944, Nos. 10, 27, 37, 95, 96, 102, 121, 141 and 163; 1945, Nos. 22, 48, 98, 151, 157 and 172; and 1946, No. 8.

133.—Price 3d.

(ii) All of his service from the date of his selection for promotion tothe actual date of his promotion to the rank or relative rank of Lieutenant.

“(1c.) An officer of the class specified in sub-regulation. (1a.) of this regulation whose total emoluments, including rate of deferred pay credited, as a Warrant Officer or Commissioned Officer from Warrant Rank on the date immediately preceding his promotion, exceeded the amount to which he would be entitled in the rank or relative rank of Lieutenant, may, on the approval of the Naval Board, be paid a special rate of pay at the same rate and under the same conditions as would be applicable in similar circumstances in the Royal Navy.”.

Marriage allowance during the present war—Rates of.

2. Regulation 41a of the Naval Financial Regulations isamended by omitting from sub-regulation (5.) the definition of “child” and inserting in its stead the following definitions:—

“‘adopted child’ includes any child in respect of whom no deed of adoption has been executed by the member but who, the Naval Board is satisfied, is treated in all respects as his legally adopted child;

‘child’ means, in relation to any member, his son, his daughter, his step-son, his step-daughter, any ex-nuptial child of which he isthe father or his adopted child, who is wholly or partly maintained by him and is—

(a) under the age of sixteen years; or

(b) under the age of eighteen years and receiving full-time education at a school or university;”.

Payment of certain allowances.

3. Payment in accordance with regulation 45 of the Naval Financial Regulations, as amended by paragraph (e)of regulation 1 of Statutory-Rules 1945, No. 172, may be made in respect of any case to which that regulation, as so amended, applies which has occurred during the period on and from the twenty-fifth day of August, 1945, to the date of commencement of regulation 1 of Statutory Rules 1945, No. 172.

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