Naval Financial Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1963. No. 54.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910-1952.*

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 Naval Defence Act 1910-1952.

Dated this Twenty-fifth day of June, 1963.

DE L’ISLE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(Sgd.) J. G. GORTON

Minister of State for the Navy.

 

AMENDMENTS OF THE NAVAL FINANCIAL REGULATIONS. 

Representation and entertainment allowances.

1.—(1.) Regulation 104 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(3.) Where oversea living in allowance is payable to an officer or to a member of the rating of Chief Petty Officer under regulation 97 of these Regulations, he may, unless his appointment or draft is of a diplomatic or liaison staff nature, be paid an allowance, called ‘entertainment allowance’, at such rate, for such period and subject to such conditions as the Naval Board determines.”.

(2.) Entertainment allowance under sub-regulation (3.) of regulation 104 of the Naval Financial Regulations as amended by the last preceding sub-regulation is payable, in accordance with the first determination made by the Naval Board for the purposes of that sub-regulation after the commencement of this regulation, in respect of each day on or after the twenty-first day of February, 1963, in respect of which an officer or a member of the rating of Chief Petty Officer is entitled to be paid oversea living in allowance.

2.—(1.) After regulation 104 of the Naval Financial Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Upkeep allowance.

“104A.—(1.) An allowance, called ‘upkeep allowance’, is payable, at such rates and subject to such conditions as the Naval Board determines, to an officer who is appointed to the office of Head of the Australian Joint Services Staff, London, and is occupying the official residence for the officer appointed to that office.

“(2.) The Naval Board may authorize the making of an advance, on account of upkeep allowance, to an officer who is or may become entitled to be paid upkeep allowance under the last preceding sub-regulation.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 28th June, 1963.

  Statutory Rules 1956, No. 88, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Naval Financial Regulations, see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1963, No. 18.

3874/63.—PRICE 3D 9/10.5.1963.

 

“(3.) If a person receives by way of advance in respect of upkeep allowance an amount greater than the amount (if any) of upkeep allowance payable to him, he is liable to repay to the Commonwealth the amount of the excess or, if no upkeep allowance becomes payable to him, the amount of the advance, and the Commonwealth may recover that amount as a debt due to the Commonwealth by action in a court of competent jurisdiction.

“(4.) For the purposes of regulation 264 of these Regulations, an amount that is repayable to the Commonwealth under the last preceding sub-regulation shall be deemed to be an amount that has been incorrectly paid or credited to a member.”.

(2.) Upkeep allowance under regulation 104A of the Naval Financial Regulations is payable, in accordance with the first determination made by the Naval Board for the purposes of that regulation after the commencement of this regulation in respect of each day on or after the eleventh day of April, 1963, in respect of which an officer appointed to the office of Head of the Australian Joint Services Staff, London, occupied or occupies the official residence for the officer appointed to that office.

The Second Schedule.

3. The Second Schedule to the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by inserting after the word and figures—

“Regulation 104.”

the word and figures—

“Regulation 104A.”.

 

By Authority: A. J. ARTHUR, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.