Naval Financial Regulations 1926 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1945. No. 172.

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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 thirty-first day of October, 1945.

HENRY

Governor-General.

By His Royal Highness’s Command,

NORMAN MAKIN

Minister of State for the Navy.

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Amendments of the Naval Financial Regulations. 

Allowances to officers.

1.Regulation 45 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting in sub-regulation (7), after the word “Tenders”, the words “or Ship in reserve commission”;

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation; (19) the words “(Harbour Ship or Harbour Service Tender)” and inserting in their stead the words “(Harbour Ship or Harbour Service Tender or Ship in reserve commission)”;

(c) by omitting from sub-regulation (23) the word “(Harbour)”and inserting in its stead the words “(Harbour Ship or Ship in reserve commission)”;

(d)by omitting from sub-regulation (24) the word “(Harbour)” and inserting in its stead the words “(Harbour Ship or Ship in reserve commission)”; and

(e)by omitting from sub-regulation (28) the words and figures “To be paid in vessels above cruiser and cruisers of over 8,000 tons” and inserting in their stead the words “To be paid in vessels above cruiser, cruisers (other than training vessels) whose main armament consists of at least nine guns of six inch calibre or of any number of guns of a larger calibre then six inch, and to Captains (D).”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1st November, 1945.—Eighty-fifth amendment.

  Statutory Rules 1926, No. 198, as amended by Statutory Rules 1927, Nos. 23, 50 and 102; 1928, Nos. 18, 49, 87 and 188; 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, 80, 110 and 185; 1936, Nos. 40, 70, 77, 118 and 159; 1937, Nos. 5, 51 and 80, 1938, Nos. 17, 47, 66, 92, 110 and 121; 1939, Nos. 28, 33, 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, 336 and 544; 1943, No. 217: 1944, Nos. 10, 27, 37, 95, 96, 102, 121, 141 and 168; and 1943, Nos. 22, 43 and 93.

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Rates of active pay-Royal Australian Naval Nursing Service.

2.—(1) Regulation 74a of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by omitting the words and figures—

“Grade.	Rate per diem.
s.	d.
Sister (Grade II) or Staff Masseuse (Grade II.) .............................	9	6
Sister (Grade I.) or Staff Masseuse (Grade I.) ..............................	11	0”

and inserting in their stead the following words and figures:—

“Rank.	Rate per diem.
s.	d.
Sister or Staff Officer ................................................	11	0”.

(2) A member of the Royal Australian Nursing Service shall, in respect of her service during the period on and from the twenty-fourth day of March, 1943, to the date of commencement of these Regulations, be paid active pay at the rate prescribed by regulation 74a of the Naval Financial Regulations as amended by this regulation.

Dependant allowances and allotments.

3.—(1) Regulation 74c of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (1) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(1) Where the Naval Board is satisfied that a member of a Women’sService has one or more persons wholly or partly dependent upon her, the Board may approve of payment to the member of a Dependant Allowance at such rate, not exceeding the rate prescribed as payable to a member of the Permanent Naval Forces (Sea-going), as it considers the circumstances of the case warrant.”.

(2) A member of a Women’s Service may, in respect of her service during the period on and from the twenty-fourth day of November, 1943, to the date of commencement of these Regulations, be paid a dependant allowance in accordance with the provisions of regulation 74c of the Naval Financial Regulations as amended, by this regulation.

Free issue of kit.

4.—Regulation 74d of the Naval Financial Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

“74d. A member appointed to or enlisted in a Women’s Service shall, on first entry or re-entry, be supplied at Commonwealth expense with a full issue of uniform, clothing and personal necessaries in accordance with such scale as the Naval Board approves.”.

Kit upkeep allowance.

5.—(1) Regulation 74e of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by omitting therefrom the table and inserting in its stead the following table:—

Rate per diem.
s.	d.
“Officers (except Staff Officers) of the Royal Australian Naval Nursing Service....	1	4
Staff Officers of the Royal Australian Naval Nursing Service................................	1	1
Officers of the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service .....................................	1	1
Ratings of the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service .....................................	0	9”

(2) If, during the period on and from the first day of July, 1945, to the date of commencement of this regulation, a member of a Women’s Service was paid Kit Upkeep Allowance at a rate less than the rate prescribed by regulation 74e of the Naval Financial Regulations as amended by this regulation, she may be paid, in respect of that period, an amount equal to the difference between the rate paid to her and the rate paid by that regulation as so amended.

Uniform—Retention of on discharge.

6. Regulation 74f of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (2) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(2) When a member is discharged for disciplinary reasons, she shall return to the Commonwealth the articles of uniform issued to her in pursuance of regulation 74d of these Regulations, with the exception of such articles of a personal nature as the Naval Board directs.”.

Civilian clothing on discharge.

7. After regulation 74f of the Naval Financial Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

“74fa.—(1) When a member of a Women’s Service is discharged for other then disciplinary reasons, after she has completed three months’ service, she shall be paid on discharge an allowance of £6 10s. to purchase articles of civilian clothing.

(2) When a member is discharged for other then disciplinary reasons within three months after her entry and is in necessitous circumstances, she may, upon the recommendation of the senior officer of the Women's Service in the establishment and the approval of the Commanding Officer, be paid on discharge the allowance prescribed by sub-regulation (1) of this regulation.

(3) When a member is discharged for disciplinary reasons, she shall, if she so requests, be supplied at a retail cost not exceeding the amount of the allowance prescribed by sub-regulation (1) of this regulation with such articles of civilian clothing, in such style as she desires, in accordance with the scale approved by the Naval Board, and the cost of the articles of civilian clothing supplied to her shall be charged in her pay account.”.

Deferred pay.

8.—(1.) Regulation 74h of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (1) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(1) Deferred pay shall be allowed to accumulate to the credit of each member of a Women’s Service in respect of her service on and after—

(a) the date of her embarkation for service beyond the limits of Australia or for service in Papua or New Guinea;

(b)by the seventh day of December, 1941, if she bad completed six months’ full time duty at that date; or

(c)the date subsequent to the seventh day of December, 1941, and immediately following the day upon which she completes six months’ full time duty,

whichever date firstoccurs, at the rates specified in the following table:—

Rank or Rating.	Rate per Diem.
s.	d.
Second Officer, Superintending Sister, or higher rank.............................	1	0
Third Officer, Sister or Staff Officer......................................................	2	6
Third Officer (on probation) .................................................................	2	0
Chief Petty Officer Wran......................................................................	1	9
Petty Officer Wran or lower rating .......................................................	1	6

Provided that on and from the nineteenth day of March, 1943, the rate of deferred pay for officers of the rank of Second Officer, Superintending Sister, or higher rank shall be supplemented by an amount of 2s. 6d. per diem and the appropriate rate of active pay of such officers, as prescribed by regulation 74a or 74b, as the case may be, of these Regulations, shall be reduced by a corresponding amount.”.

(2) This regulation shall be deemed to have come into operation on the twenty-fourth day of March, 1943.

Special allowance for retention of private accommodation.

9.—(1) Regulation 87k of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended—

(a)by omitting, from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (2) the figures “14” and inserting in their stead the figures “28”; and

(b) by omitting from paragraph (b)of sub-regulation (2) the figure “7” and, inserting in its stead the figures “14”.

(2) Payment in accordance with regulation 87e of the Naval Financial Regulations, as amended by this regulation, 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 fifth day of May, 1945, to the date of commencement of these Regulations.

Fares.

10. Regulation 117b of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1) the words “by railway, steamer, or any other means of transport except aircraft,”; and

(b) by inserting after sub-regulation (2) the following sub-regulation:—

“(3) A member to whom this regulation applies shall travel and her effects shall be conveyed by railway, unless in exceptional circumstances the Naval Board approves of her travelling and her effects being conveyed by any other means of transport.”.

Travelling allowance.

11.—(1) Regulation 117d of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by omitting the table from sub-regulation (1) and inserting in its stead the following table:—

Rank or Rating.	Allowance, first two weeks residence in same place.				Allowance, after two weeks’ residence to same place.
	Capital Cities.		Other than Capital Cities.		Capital Cities.		Other than Capital Cities.
Per day.		Per day.		Per day.		Per day.
s.	d.	s.	d.	s.	d.	s.	d.
Chief Officer...........................	22	6	19	0	11	6	9	6
First Officer or Matron.............	21	0	17	0	11	0	9	0
Second Officer or Superintending Sister or lower rank.......................	18	6	14	6	10	0	7	6
Chief Petty Officer Wran or other rating	14	6	12	0	7	0	6

(Hourly rate in each case to be l/24th of daily rate).”.

(2) A member of a Women’s Service, who was required to travel on duty or was detached for temporary duty and was required to be absent from her permanent or temporary station for a period extending overnight during the period on and from the twenty-third day of February, 1944, to the date of commencementof this regulation, may, in respect of that period of duty away from her station, be paid travelling allowance at the rates prescribed by regulation 117d of the NavalFinancial Regulations as amended by this regulation.

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

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