Naval Financial Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1973 No. 178

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910-1971.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Naval Defence Act 1910-1971.

Dated this fifth day of September, 1973.

PAUL HASLUCK

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

R. BISHOP

Minister of State for Repatriation for and on behalf of the Minister of State for the Navy.

Amendment of the Naval Financial Regulations 

After regulation 117b of the Naval Financial Regulations the following regulations are inserted:—

Deep experimental divine allowance.

“ 117c. (1) A member who is serving in the United Kingdom and performs, for experimental purposes, a diving operation to a maximum depth exceeding 180 feet shall be paid, in respect of the duration of the test, an allowance, called ‘ deep experimental diving allowance ’.

“ (2) Subject to sub-regulation (3), deep experimental diving allowance is payable at the rate per minute specified in column 2 of the following table in relation to the maximum depth, specified in column 1 of that table, attained during the operation:—

Column 1	Column 2
Maximum depth attained	Rate per minute
$
Exceeding 180 feet but not exceeding 250 feet............................................................	0.0742
Exceeding 250 feet but not exceeding 350 feet............................................................	0.0866
Exceeding 350 feet but not exceeding 400 feet............................................................	0.1031
Exceeding 400 feet but not exceeding 450 feet............................................................	0.1114
Exceeding 450 feet but not exceeding 500 feet............................................................	0.1196
Exceeding 500 feet but not exceeding 550 feet............................................................	0.1279
Exceeding 550 feet but not exceeding 600 feet............................................................	0.1382
Exceeding 600 feet....................................................................................................	0.1547

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 13 September 1973.

  Statutory Rules 1956, No. 88 as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Naval Financial Regulations see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1973, No. 81, and see also Statutory Rules 1973, Nos. 81, 106 and 170. See also the Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations (Statutory Rules 1973, No. 100, as amended by Statutory Rules 1973, No. 132).

“ (3) Where a member is entitled to receive diving allowance under regulation 17 of the Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations in respect of a diving operation for which be is also entitled to receive deep experimental diving allowance under sub-regulation (1), the amount of deep experimental diving allowance payable to the member in respect of that operation shall be reduced by the amount of diving allowance payable to him in respect of that operation.

Wet recompression chamber allowance.

“ 117d. A member who is serving in the United Kingdom and undergoes, for experimental purposes, a pressure test in a wet recompression chamber at a maximum pressure exceeding that experienced at a depth of water of 180 feet shall be paid, in respect of the duration of the test, an allowance, called ‘ wet recompression chamber allowance ’, at the rate per minute specified in column 2 of the following table in relation to the depth of water specified in column 1 of that table at which a pressure, equal to the maximum pressure experienced by the member during the test, would have been experienced:—

Column 1	Column 2
Depth at which maximum pressure would have been experienced	Rate per minute
$
Exceeding 180 feet but not exceeding 250 feet............................................................	0.0248
Exceeding 250 feet but not exceeding 350 feet............................................................	0.0289
Exceeding 350 feet but not exceeding 400 feet............................................................	0.0351
Exceeding 400 feet but not exceeding 450 feet............................................................	0.0371
Exceeding 450 feet but not exceeding 500 feet............................................................	0.0391
Exceeding 500 feet but not exceeding 550 feet............................................................	0.0433
Exceeding 550 feet but not exceeding 600 feet............................................................	0.0454
Exceeding 600 feet....................................................................................................	0.0516

Interpretation of regulations 117c and 117d.

“ 117e. For the purposes of regulations 117c and 117d—

(a) a reference to a diving operation for experimental purposes or to a pressure test for experimental purposes shall be read as a reference to an operation or test conducted for the purpose of testing one or more of the following, that is to say:—

(i) diving equipment;

(ii)  gas mixtures to be used in conjunction with diving equipment;

(iii)  diving procedures; and

(iv)  the resistance of personnel to, or the effects on personnel of, the conditions encountered during diving operations; and

(b) a reference to a wet recompression chamber shall be read as a reference to a chamber in which pressures equivalent to those experienced at varying depths of water can be accurately created.”.