Naval Financial Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1969 No. 177

 

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 sixth day of November, 1969.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

C. R. KELLY

Minister of State for the Navy.

 

Amendments of the Naval Financial Regulations 

Medical and dental officers—active pay.

1.—(1.) Regulation 10 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (2.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(2.) The daily rate of active pay payable to an officer of the Medical Branch who is a Surgeon Lieutenant and holds a position of resident medical officer at a hospital is Twelve dollars thirty-nine cents.”.

(2.) The daily rate of active pay provided for in sub-regulation (2.) of regulation 10 of the Naval Financial Regulations as amended by the last preceding sub-regulation applies in relation to service, on or after the fourth day of July, 1969, of a Surgeon Lieutenant of the Medical Branch who held or holds a position as a resident medical officer at a hospital.

Consolidated rates of pay.

2.—(1.) Regulation 15 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (3.) the words “Twelve thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight dollars” and inserting in their stead the words “Fifteen thousand and eighteen dollars”;

(b) by omitting sub-regulation (4.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulations:—

“(4.) Subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, the rate of pay of a Commodore is a consolidated rate of pay of Twelve thousand six hundred and fifty-eight dollars, per year.

“(4a.) The rate of pay of a Surgeon Commodore or a Surgeon Commodore (D) is a consolidated rate of pay of Thirteen thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight dollars per year.”; and

(c) by omitting sub-regulation (6.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(6.) Subject to such conditions as the Naval Board determines, an officer, other than a Surgeon Captain or a Surgeon Captain (D), holding the rank of Captain may be paid at the consolidated rate of pay payable under sub-regulation (4.) of this regulation to a Commodore as if he held the rank of Commodore instead of at the rate of active pay payable to a Captain.”.

  

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  1969.

  Statutory Rules 1956, No. 88, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Naval Financial Regulations, see footnote   Statutory Rules 1969, No. 5, and see also Statutory Rules 1969, Nos. 5, 41 and 55.

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(2.) The rates of pay provided for in sub-regulations (3.) and (4.) of regulation 15 of the Naval Financial Regulations as amended by the last preceding sub-regulation apply in relation to service of a Rear Admiral, of a Commodore (not being a Surgeon Commodore or a Surgeon Commodore (D)) or of a Captain entitled to be paid at the consolidated rate of pay payable to a Commodore, as the case may be, in the Permanent Naval Forces on or after the twenty-second day of September, 1969.

3. Regulation 266 of the Naval Financial Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

General conditions of service.

“266.—(1.) The provisions of Parts V., VI. (other than regulations 134, 136 and 149), VIII., X. (other than regulations 212, 213, 214 and 215), XI., XII., and XIII., and of regulations 88a, 175, 176, 177, 181 and 182 of these Regulations, apply to and in relation to the service of a member to which regulation 264 of these Regulations applies as if that service were service in the Permanent Naval Forces of a member of the Permanent Naval Forces having the like rank or rating as the member has.

“(2.) In the application of regulations 135, 135a and 135b of these Regulations in relation to the service of a member to which regulation 264 in these Regulations applies, references to the discharge of a man shall be read as references to a man ceasing to render continuous full time naval service of a kind specified in sub-regulation (1.) of that last-mentioned regulation.

“(3.) Where—

(a) a member immediately upon becoming a member commences to render a period of continuous full time naval service to which regulation 264 of these Regulations applies; and

(b) the member had, immediately before becoming a member, retired from the Permanent Naval Forces on or subsequent to his having attained the age for his compulsory retirement,

Part XIII. applies in relation to him as if his period of service in the Permanent Naval Forces and his period of continuous full time naval service in the Naval Emergency Reserve Forces or the Citizen Naval Forces that commences immediately after his retirement from the Permanent Naval Forces were one continuous period of full time naval service in the Naval Emergency Reserve Forces or the Citizen Naval Forces.

“(4.) In the application of this regulation in relation to a member whose prescribed age of compulsory retirement is extended, references to the age for his compulsory retirement shall be read as references to the age that would be the aye for his compulsory retirement but for that extension.”.

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