Naval Financial Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1933. No. 50.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910-1918.

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 1910-1918, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this fifth day of April 1933.

(Sgd.) ISAAC A. ISAACS.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

for Minister of State for Defence.

Amendment of Naval Financial Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1926, No. 198, as amended to this date.)

(Twenty-second amendment.)

1. Regulation 15, sub-regulation (1), is amended by omitting from the scale the following:—

s.	d.
“Mate..........................................................................................................	16	0”
“Mate (E)....................................................................................................	19	0”.

2. Regulation 16 amended by omitting from the scale the following:—

s.	d.
“Mate (A)....................................................................................................	16	0”

3. Regulation 30, sub-regulation (1), is amended—

(a) by omitting from the scale the following:—

“Acting Mate.............................................................	On promotion..............	£50
Acting Mate (E).......................................................
Acting Mate (A).......................................................
Mate........................................................................	On confirmation	£50
Mate (E)..................................................................
Mate (A)..................................................................
Lieutenant (or equivalent rank) promoted from above	On promotion.............	£50
			Executive and Engineer Officers...............................	On promotion to Sub-Lieutenant (confirmed).	£50”

800.—Price 3d.

“Paymaster Sub-Lieutenant........................................................ On confirmation £34”

and inserting in the scale the following:—

“Acting Sub-Lieutenant			Promoted from Chief Petty Officer or a lower rating.		On promotion....	£105
Acting Sub-Lieutenant (E)
Acting Paymaster Sub- Lieutenant
Lieutenant.........	Promoted from Chief Petty Officer or a lower rating through Sub-Lieutenant rank					On promotion....	£45
Lieutenant (E)
Paymaster Lieutenant
Sub-Lieutenant................				Promoted from Midshipman	On confirmation	£50”
Sub-Lieutenant (E)..........
“Paymaster Sub-Lieutenant promoted from Paymaster Midshipman							On confirmation	£34.”

(b) by inserting, after the scale, the following:—

“In special cases with the approval of the Naval Board the gratuities provided above to be paid ‘on confirmation’ may instead be paid on promotion to Acting Sub-Lieutenant, Acting Sub-Lieutenant (E), or Acting Paymaster Sub-Lieutenant respectively, provided in such cases the period of two years mentioned in sub-regulation (3) hereof shall be deemed to commence on the date of confirmation.”

4. Regulation 45 is amended—

(a) by omitting from the heading preceding sub-regulation (2), the words “and Mates”;

(b) by omitting from the heading preceding sub-regulation (34) the words “and Mate (E)”.

5. Regulation 46, sub-regulation (7), is amended by omitting the words “(including Mates)”.

6. Regulation 51, sub-regulation (3), paragraph (b), is amended by omitting the word “Mate” and inserting in its stead the word “Commissioned”.

7. Regulation 52, sub-regulation (3), is amended by omitting from the scale the following:—

s.	d.
“Mate........................................................................................................	3	0”.

8. Regulation 54 is amended—

(a) by omitting the words “Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander” and inserting in their stead the words “Surgeon Commander”;

(b) by inserting, after the word “subjects”, the words “or where Medical Officers are required to take up any special work,”.

9. Regulation 74 is amended—

(a) by omitting the word “or” where last appearing in sub regulation (7);

(b) by adding to sub-regulation (7) the following paragraph:—

“(e) during time on the half-pay list”;

(c) by inserting, in sub-regulation (8), after the word “where”, the words “the full rate of”.

10. Regulation 90 is amended—

(a) by inserting, in sub-regulation (1), after the words “has been” in the fifth line, the words “or should have been”;

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

“In any case where the assessment is less than 20 per cent., the amount payable shall be a sum which bears the same proportion to £100 as the percentage degree of disability bears to 20 per cent.”

11. Regulation 133, sub-regulation (1), paragraph (a), is amended by adding the following words to those in parenthesis at the top of the first column of the Schedule:—

“with the exception of time on the half-pay list of the Royal Australian Navy.”

12. Regulation 139, sub-regulation (1), is amended by adding the following:—

“Provided further that time during which an officer is on half-pay under the provisions of regulation 98 of the Naval Forces Regulations shall not count as service for the purpose of calculating the amount of leave that may be granted under this regulation, but shall be deemed not to interrupt continuous service.”

13. Regulation 140 is amended by omitting sub-regulation (7).

14. After regulation 150 the following new regulation is inserted in Part X.:—

“150a.—(1) Notwithstanding anything contained herein where a member who has been granted medical attendance under these Regulations recovers or receives damages from a third party, the Naval Board may require the member to pay to such officer of the Department as the Board directs either in a lump sum or in such instalments as the Board directs, the whole or any portion of the cost of medical attendance granted under these Regulations, and thereupon the amount so directed to be paid shall be a debt due to the Commonwealth.

(2) If any member—

(a) fails or refuses to pay the amount directed by the Naval Board to be paid in pursuance of this regulation; or

(b) requests that the amount be deducted from any moneys from time to time becoming due to him as a member;

the Board may direct that the amount be deducted, in a lump sum or by instalments, from any moneys from time to time becoming due to the member, or may cause such other action to be taken for the recovery of the amount as to the Board seems fit.”

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