Naval Financial Regulations 1926 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1944. No. 141.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1941 AND THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910-1934*

I, THE Administrator of the Government of 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 twentieth day of September, 1944.

WINSTON DUGAN

Administrator

By His Excellency’s Command,

(Sgd.) Norman J. O. Makin

Minister of State for the Navy.

 

Amendments of the Naval Financial Regulations. 

Allowances to officers.

1.—(1) Regulation 45 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by inserting after sub-regulation (47) the following sub-regulation:—

“Charge Pay for Accountant Officers—	Rate per diem
s.	d.
(47a) (a)Subject to prior approval of the Naval Board, to an Accountant Officer in charge of accounts during the period of the war, where the number of pay accounts during a quarter does not fall below 4,000—not payable while closing accounts.....	5	0
(b) To an Accountant Officer who is receiving the full pay of Paymaster Commander or lower rank, when in charge of accounts in accordance with the following scale computed each quarter:—
When the daily average numbers borne for pay exceed—
(i) 900......................................................................	2	6
(ii) 1,400..................................................................	3	6
(iii) 2,000.................................................................	4	0
These allowances shall not be payable whilst closing accounts.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1944.—Seventy-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 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 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; 1942, Nos. 27, 95, 116, 117, 284, 336 and 544; 1943, No. 217; and 1944, Nos. 10, 27, 37, 95, 96 and 102.

5314.—Price 3d. 9/22.8.1944.

(2) An Accountant Officer who, during the period from and including the thirteenth day of September, 1943, to the date of commencement of this regulation, was in charge of accounts, may be paid, subject to compliance with the conditions prescribed in the Naval Financial Regulations as amended by this regulation, the appropriate rate of allowance prescribed by those Regulations as so amended in respect of the period during which he was in charge of such accounts.

Special allowances.

2.—(1) Regulation 48 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (43a) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(43a)	Radar.—
(a)Control Rating Instructor............................................................................	2	0
(b)Control Rating, First Class..........................................................................	1	6
(c) Control Rating, Second Class (Chief Petty Officer and Petty Officer)............	0	6
(d)Control Rating, Second Class (Leading Seaman and Able Seaman)...............	0	9
(e) Control Rating, Third Class (Leading Seaman and Able Seaman)..................	0	3
(f) Plot Rating Instructor..................................................................................	2	0
(g)Plot Rating, First Class................................................................................	1	6
(h)Plot Rating, Second Class (Chief Petty Officer and Petty Officer).................	0	6
(i) Plot Rating, Second Class (Leading Seaman and Able Seaman).....................	0	9
(j)Plot Rating, Third Class (Leading Seaman and Able Seaman)........................	0	3
(k) Radar Operator...........................................................................................	0	3”.

(2) A rating who, during the period on and from the fifteenth day of May, 1944, to the date of commencement of this regulation, performed Radar duties, may, in respect of that duty, be paid an allowance at the appropriate rate prescribed by regulation 48 of the Naval Financial Regulations as amended by this regulation.

Special allowance.

3. Regulation 70b of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by—

(a) omitting from sub-regulation (1) the word “paid” (second occurring) and inserting in its stead the words “payable at full rates”; and

(b) omitting sub-regulation (2) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(2) A member, having ceased to be eligible for payment of a special allowance under sub-regulation (1) of this regulation, shall thereafter again become eligible for payment of such an allowance only if the total specified in that sub-regulation falls in his case, as the result of—

(a)a reduction in the amount of the Marriage or the Dependant Allowance payable to him under these Regulations; or

(b) his reversion to a lower rank or rating for other than disciplinary reasons;

below the consolidated rate which was payable to him on the day immediately prior to the fixation of his emoluments under regulation 70a of these Regulations.”.

4. After regulation 70d of the Naval Financial Regulations the following regulations are inserted:—

Subsistence allowance not payable in certain circumstances.

“70e. Notwithstanding anything contained in these Regulations, the subsistence allowance payable in accordance with the provisions of regulation 70c or regulation 70d of these Regulations, shall not be paid to a member in respect of any day on which—

(a) travelling allowance or meal allowance for three consecutive meals is paid to that member;

(b) the member is provided with meals in a government or civil hospital, prison, detention barracks or mental institution;

(c) the member is provided with meals on board ship, train or aircraft at public expense; or

(d) the member is absent without leave.

Special allowance for retention of private accommodation.

“70f.—(1) A member of the Auxiliary Services, who is required to reside away from his home for Service reasons and is not provided with Service accommodation, may, on production of a receipt for such sum as was necessarily expended by him for retention of private accommodation during any period for which he was—

(a) accommodated in hospital;

(b) in receipt of travelling allowance; or

(c) provided with Service accommodation whilst temporarily on duty at another establishment,

be paid in respect of that period, subject to the succeeding provisions of this regulation, a special allowance at the rate of 2s. 6d. per diem or, if Marriage Allowance or Dependant Allowance is payable to him, at the rate specified, according to his rank or rating in the following table:—

Rank or Rating.	Rate of allowance per diem.
s.	d.
Lieutenant-Commander or higher rank or relative rank......................................	4	0
Lieutenant or lower rank or relative rank...........................................................	3	6
Chief Petty Officer or other rating....................................................................	3	0
,,

(2) The maximum period for which an allowance pursuant to sub-regulation (1) of this regulation may be paid shall be—

(a) in the case of a member accommodated in hospital—14 days from and including the day of his admission to hospital; and

(b) in any other case—7 days from and including the first day in respect of which the member is paid travelling allowance or upon which the member is provided with Service accommodation whilst temporarily on duty at another establishment, as the case may be.

(3) If the sum necessarily expended by the member for retention of private accommodation is less than the amount of the special allowance prescribed by the preceding provisions of this regulation, he shall be re-imbursed the amount of that sum but shall not be eligible for payment of that allowance.

(4) For the purposes of this regulation, a member of the Auxiliary Services shall mean a member of the Auxiliary Services, other than the Shore Wireless Service, paid in accordance with the provisions of regulation 70a of these Regulations.”.

Cessation of pay and allowances.

5.—(1) Regulation 74g of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by inserting after sub-regulation (3) the following sub-regulation:—

“(4) A period of absence without leave may be counted by a Wran under 21 years of age as service towards the requisite qualifying time for eligibility for credit of a higher rate of active pay within such rating: Provided that a continuous period of absence without leave in excess of ten days shall not be so allowed to count.”.

(2) Sub-regulation (1) of this Regulation shall be deemed to have come into operation as on and from the thirty-first day of March 1944.

Auxiliary services victualling.

6. Regulation 87 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by inserting in sub-regulation (1) after the word “regulations” the figures and letters “70c, 70d,”.

 

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