STATUTORY RULES.
1940.
No. 124.
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REGULATIONS
UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1939 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 1903-1939 and
the Naval Defence Act 1910-1934.
Dated this Third
day
of July,
1940
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister
of State for the Navy.
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Amendments of the Naval Financial Regulations.
Rates
of pay—Petty Officers and men (Sea-going).
1. Regulation 23 of the
Naval Financial Regulations is amended by adding at the end of sub-regulation
(1.) the following words and figures:—
Wireman.
“Wireman—
|
On entry, if under 21 years........................................................
| 7
| 3
|
On entry, if age not
less than 21 years or on
attaining age of 21 years
| 7
| 5
|
After three years’ service from
age of 21 years, or later entry.......
| 7
| 7
|
Leading Wireman..........................................................................
| 8
| 11
|
After three years’ service as
such...............................................
| 9
| 3
|
Leave
Allowance.
2. Regulation 79 of the
Naval Financial Regulations is amended by omitting from the table in
sub-regulation (1.) the figures “2 9” and inserting in their stead the figures “2
10”.
Scale
of travelling allowances (Sea-going).
3. Regulation
92 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by omitting from
sub-regulation (1.) the words and figures—
“Lieutenant......................................................................... Other Commissioned
Officers (including Commissioned Officer from Warrant Rank)..............................................................
| 17 | 0 | 14 | 6 |
16 | 0 | 13 | 6” |
and
inserting in their stead the words and figures— |
“Lieutenant and
Commissioned Officer from Warrant Rank... | 17 | 0 | 14 | 6 |
Commissioned officer
of a rank other than those specified in this table
| 16 | 0 | 13 | 6” |
*
Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on
,1940.—Fifty-fifth
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 130; 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 181: and
1940, No. 3.
3532.—6/21.6.1940.—Price
3d.
Scale
of travelling allowances for Auxiliary Services.
4. Regulation 97 of the
Naval Financial Regulations is amended by omitting from the scale in
sub-regulation (1.) the words and figures—
“Lieutenant................................... Other Commissioned
Officers (including Commissioned Officer from Warrant Rank)
| 17 | 0 | 14 | 6 | 63 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 35 | 0 |
16 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 56 | 0 | 37 | 6 | 47 | 0 | 32 | 6 |
and
inserting in their stead the words and figures— |
“Lieutenant and
Commissioned Officer from Warrant Rank...........................
| 17 | 0 | 14 | 6 | 63 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 35 | 0 |
Commissioned officer
of a rank other than those specified in this table
|
16 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 56 | 0 | 37 | 6 | 47 | 0 | 32 | 6” |
Sick
leave granted by D.N.O. or C.O.
5. Regulation 133 of the
Naval Financial Regulations is amended—
(a) by adding at the end of paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (1.) the following
proviso:—
“Provided
further that, in the case of a member with long service in the sea-going
Service continuous with service in the Auxiliary Services, the Naval Board may,
if it considers the circumstances of the case so warrant, approve of additional
leave on pay, subject to the limitations prescribed in paragraphs (c), (d) and (e) of this sub-regulation, as if the total continuous service of
the member had been taken into account in ascertaining his credits and debits
of leave in accordance with this regulation”; and
(b) by adding at the end of paragraph (c)
of sub-regulation (1.) the following provisoes:—
“Provided
that, if, in any case of a member with long service who has exhausted the leave
with pay for which he is eligible under the foregoing provisions of this
regulation, the Naval Board considers that exceptional treatment is justified,
it may, where leave on pay has been exhausted, grant the member additional
leave on third pay:
Provided
further that the maximum period of leave allowable with pay in respect of any
continuous absence through illness shall be fifty-two weeks.”.
6. After regulation 148 of
the Naval Financial Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—
Mines—Awards
for recovery of &c.
“148a.—(1.)
The Naval Board may authorize payment of an award in accordance with the
following table for the recovery of a floating mine or for the first report of
a mine washed up on shore:—
(a)For the recovery of
a floating mine found at a distance of two miles or less from the coast of,
and its delivery to a local authority in, Australia............................
| £
| s.
| d.
|
2
| 0
| 0
|
(b)For the recovery of
a floating mine found at a distance of more than two miles from the coast of,
and its delivery to a local authority in, Australia..............
| £
| s.
| d.
|
5
| 0
| 0
|
(c) For the first report to a local authority of a mine washed up
on the shore of Australia.
| 1
| 0
| 0
|
(2.) For the purposes of this
regulation “a local authority” means—
A
Postmaster or postal official in charge of a Post Office; a Justice of the
Peace; a member of the Police Force of a State or Territory of the
Commonwealth; a Town Clerk, Deputy Town Clerk or Shire Secretary; an officer in
charge of a Lighthouse; a Pilot in the service of the Commonwealth or of a
State; or a Naval Commissioned Officer in the service of the Commonwealth.
Wiremen
in service.
7. Any man who was entered
in the Permanent Naval Forces (Seagoing) in the rating of Wireman and served as
a Wireman for any period prior to the date upon which regulation 1 of these
Regulations come into operation may, in respect of that period of service, be
paid at the rate prescribed by regulation 23 of the Naval Financial
Regulations, as amended by regulation 1 of these Regulations.
Adjustments
of payments of Leave Allowance.
8. If, in respect of the
period from and including the twenty-third day of August, 1939, to the date
upon which regulation 2 of these Regulations came into operation, any payment
of Leave Allowance has been made at a rate which is less than the rate prescribed
by regulation 79 of the Naval Financial Regulations, as amended by regulation 2
of these Regulations, the payment so made shall be adjusted by payment to the
member concerned of the difference between the rate of allowance paid and the
rate prescribed by that regulation, as so amended.
By
Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government
Printer, Canberra.