Naval Financial Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1941. No. 308.

 

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 Seventeenth day of December, 1941.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for the Navy.

 

Amendments of the Naval Financial Regulations. 

1.—(1.) Regulation 37 of the Naval Financial Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Deserter’s kit.

“37. A recovered deserter shall not be treated as a new entry for the purpose of the free issue of kit, but may be provided with kit as follows:—

(a) If any articles of kit left by him on board ship or at his place of duty were not sold before his recovery, they may be restored to him; or

(b)If those articles, or any of them, were sold before his recovery, he may be supplied with such articles of kit as the Naval Board directs, subject to such conditions as the Board determines.”.

(2.) If, during the period from and including the sixteenth day of December, 1940, to the date of the coming into operation of this regulation, any recovered deserter was supplied with articles of kit on account of articles of his kit having been sold before his recovery, the articles so supplied shall be regarded as issued to him on loan and the value thereof shall be deemed not to be, or at any time to have been, a charge against his pay and allowances.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1941.—Sixty-second 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; and 1941, Nos. 22, 89 and 152.

5437.—18/21.11.1941.—Price 3d.

Active Pay.

2. Regulation 23a of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following words and figures:—

Motor Mechanic Branch.

“Motor Mechanic—
Acting 4th Class...............................................................................	11	8
4th Class..........................................................................................	11	8
3rd Class.........................................................................................	12	6
2nd Class.........................................................................................	13	0
1st Class..........................................................................................	13	6”.

Special allowances.

3. Regulation 48 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (10b.) the word “Seaman”;

(b) by inserting, after sub-regulation (43.), the following sub-regulation:—

“(43a.) Radio Direction Finder..................................................... 0 3”;

(c) by inserting, after sub-regulation (53a.), the following sub-regulation:—

“(53b.) Signal duties—
Seaman rating acting as Visual Signalman................................	0	3”;

(d) by omitting from the heading to sub-regulation (56.) the word “Detector” and inserting in its stead the word “Detection”;

and

(e) by adding at the end of sub-regulation (56.) the following paragraph,:—

“(d) Anti-Submarine Officer’s Writer 0 3”.

4. Regulation 154 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by inserting, after sub-regulation (5.), the following sub-regulation:—

Engineer Manager, Sydney.

“(5a.) The Engineer Manager, H.M.A. Naval Establishments, Sydney, is authorized—

(a)To approve of contract demands on the Contract Board or the District Contract Board for the local purchase of Gunmounting and Torpedo Stores which are authorized by the Naval Board for local purchase and which are not in excess of authorized stocks.

(b) To approve of requisitions for minor items of Gunmounting and Torpedo Stores not exceeding Ten pounds in value in any one case and not exceeding Fifty pounds in any one month.

(c) To approve of requisitions for all services in connexion with Gunmounting and Torpedo Stores not exceeding Twenty pounds for any particular service in respect of any one shipment.”.

 

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