Naval Financial Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1970 No.180

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910–1968.*

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 1910-1968.

Dated this fourteenth day of November, 1970.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for the Navy.

Amendments of the Naval Financial Regulations 

Entertaining allowance.

1.—(1.) Regulation 21 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by omitting the table in sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following table:—

Appointment	Rank	Rate per day
$
An appointment in command or temporary command of a large ship or a group of large ships in respect of which command money is payable under sub-regulation (1.) of regulation 18 of these Regulations..........................	Commodore or Captain	0.50
	Commander....................	0.30
	Lieutenant-Commander	0.25
	Lieutenant......................	0.20
Commodore Superintendent of Training......................	Commodore....................	1.00
Commanding Officer, H.M.A.S. CRESWELL...........	Commodore or Captain	1.00
Commanding Officer, R.A.N. Air Station, Nowra......	Commodore or Captain	0.50

(2.) Regulation 21 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(7.) In this regulation, ‘large ship’ has the same meaning as in regulation 18 of these Regulations.”.

Medical Branch Specialist allowance.

2.—(1.) Regulation 41 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (c)the words “One dollar” and inserting in their stead the words “One dollar twenty-five cents”.

(2.) A man in receipt of Medical Branch Specialist allowance at the rate of One dollar per day in respect of a day in the period from and including the twenty-first day of November, 1969, to and including the day immediately preceding the commencement of these Regulations is, by force of this sub-regulation, entitled to be paid an amount of Twenty-five cents as additional Medical Branch Specialist allowance in respect of that day.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  1970.

 Statutory Rules 1956, No. 88, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Naval Financial Regulations, see footnote to Statutory Rules 1970, No. 12; and see also Statutory Rules 1970, No. 12.

22179/70—Price 5c 10/23.10.1970

3. After regulation 41 of the Naval Financial Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Engineroom Watchkeeping Certificate allowance.

“42.—(1.) Subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, an allowance, called ‘Engineroom Watchkeeping Certificate allowance’, is payable, at the rate of Twenty-five cents per day, to a Petty Officer Engineering Mechanic or a Chief Engineering Mechanic who is the holder of an Engineroom Watchkeeping Certificate in respect of a period during which he is drafted to a sea-going ship in commission for watchkeeping duties.

“(2.) Engineroom Watchkeeping Certificate allowance is not payable in respect of a period during which a Petty Officer Engineering Mechanic or Chief Engineering Mechanic is in hospital or is sick on shore.”.

Transport and accommodation for relatives of very seriously ill member.

4. Regulation 141 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the words “dangerously ill” and inserting in their stead the words “reported to be very seriously ill”.

Travel on termination of service.

5. Regulation 193 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (5.) the words “next succeeding sub-regulation” and inserting in their stead the words “next two succeeding sub-regulations”; and

(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(6.) Where a scheme for encouraging the recruitment of persons as members of the Permanent Naval Forces, being a scheme of general application formulated by the Naval Board, makes provision for a member included in a specified class of members to be discharged from the Permanent Naval Forces at his own request within, or upon the expiration of, a specified period after his enlistment in those Forces, sub-regulation (5.) of this regulation does not prevent a member who is included in such a class of members and is discharged at his own request before or upon completing the length of service specified in the scheme in relation to that class of members from being transported under sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation at the expense of the Department.”.

Reimbursement of cost of insurance.

6.—(1.) Regulation 194 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (a)of sub-regulation (2.) the words “Four hundred dollars” (wherever occurring) and inserting in their stead the words “Six hundred dollars”.

(2.) A member may be reimbursed the amount paid by him for insurance as if the amendment of regulation 194 of the Naval Financial Regulations effected by the last preceding sub-regulation had come into operation on the twenty-sixth day of June, 1970.

General conditions of service.

7. Regulation 266 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the figures “134,”.

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