Naval Financial Regulations 1926 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1943. No. 217.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1941 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 1903-1941 and the Naval Defence Act 1910-1934.

Dated this first day of September, 1943.

(S.G.D.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for the Navy.

 

Amendments of the Naval Financial Regulations.

Kit Upkeep Allowance.

1.—(1.) Regulation 34 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1) each of the amounts “8½d.”, “7½d.”, “8d.” and “8d.” specified therein and inserting in their stead the amounts “9d.”, “8d.”, “8½d.” and “8½d.” respectively.

(2.) If during the period on and from the first day of May, 1943, to the date of the commencement of these Regulations any rating was paid Kit Upkeep Allowance at a rate less than the rate prescribed by regulation 34 of the Naval Financial Regulations as amended by this regulation, he may be paid, in respect of that period, an amount equal to the difference between the rate paid to him and the rate prescribed by that regulation as so amended.

Special Allowances.

2.—(1.) Regulation 48 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting, after sub-regulation (40), the following sub-regulation:—

“(40a) Cinematograph Operator............................. ........................... 1 0.”; and

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1943.—Seventy-Amendment.

  Statutory Rules 1926, No. 198, as amended by Statutory Rules 1927, Nos. 23, 59 and 102; 1928, Nos. 18, 49, 87 and 138; 1929, Nos. 35, 64, 90 and 186; 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 159; 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; and 1942, Nos. 27, 95, 116, 117, 284, 336 and 544.

4380.—Price 3d. 22/15.7.1943.

 

(b)by inserting, after sub-regulation (56), the following sub-regulation:—

“(56a)	Harbour Defence Layer—
(a)Harbour Defence Layer, 1st Class................	1 0
(b) Harbour Defence Layer, 2nd Class...............	0 8
(c) Harbour Defence Layer, 3rd Class...............	0 3.”.

(2.) A rating who, during the period on and from the twentieth day of August, 1942, to the date of commencement of these Regulations, performed the duty of Harbour Defence Layer, 1st Class, Harbour Defence Layer, 2nd Class, or Harbour Defence Layer, 3rd Class, may in respect of that duty, be paid an allowance at the rate prescribed in regulation 48 of the Naval Financial Regulations, as amended by this regulation.

3. After regulation 150a of the Naval Financial Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Decorations for Gallantry Pecuniary Grants.

“150b.—The provisions contained in King’s Regulations and Admiralty Instructions and in Admiralty Fleet Orders governing the award of pecuniary grants to Chief Petty Officers, Petty Officers and other ratings, who receive decorations for gallantry, shall apply to and in relation to the Royal Australian Navy and the members thereof.”.

 

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