Naval Financial Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1968 No. 70

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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 seventeenth day of June, 1968.

CASEY

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

C. R. KELLY

Minister of State for the Navy.

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Amendments of the Naval Financial Regulations 

1. Regulations 185 to 190 (inclusive) of the Naval Financial Regulations are repealed and the following regulation is inserted in their stead:—

Travel on duty.

“185.—(1.) Where a member travels on duty in accordance with a direction given by the proper Service authority, the Department shall, subject to this Division, bear the cost of the travel.

“(2.) The Naval Board may give directions with respect to the class and, subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, the method of travel of members.

“(3.) A member may, with the approval of the Naval Board, travel on duty in his own motor vehicle or in a motor vehicle that has been lent to him or that he has hired.”.

Travel on termination of service.

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

(a)by omitting sub-regulation (3.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulations:—

“(3.) Where a member who is eligible under sub-regulation (1.) or sub-regulation (2.) of this regulation to be transported at the expense of the Department to a place in Australia travels to another place in Australia, the Department may—

(a) if the Naval Board is satisfied that the member has established or intends to establish a permanent residence in that other place—bear the cost of transport to that other place or reimburse the member an amount equal to his fare to that other place, as the case requires; or

(b) in any other case—reimburse the member an amount equal to his fare to the place referred to in sub-regulation (1.) or sub-regulation (2.) of this regulation or to that other place, whichever is the less.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1968.

  Statutory Rules 1956, No. 80, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Naval financial Regulations, see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1968, No. , and see also Statutory Rules 1968, No. .

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“(3aa.) Where the service of a member is terminated on disciplinary grounds or on the ground that he is medically unfit through his own fault, the member may be transported at the expense of the Department—

(a)if the member is a married member whose family is residing in a place in Australia—to that place; or

(b) in any other case—to a place in Australia approved by the Naval Board.”;

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

(c) by omitting sub-regulation (6.)

3. Regulation 194 of the Naval Financial Regulations is repealed and the following regulation is inserted in its stead:—

Reimbursement of cost of insurance.

“194.—(1.) Subject to the succeeding provisions of this regulation, where a member who is required to travel on duty to or from a place oversea otherwise than in an Australian ship insures his baggage and personal effects against loss or damage, he may be reimbursed the amount paid by him for the insurance.

“(2.) A member shall not be reimbursed, under the last preceding sub-regulation—

(a) if the member’s period of duty in the place oversea is intended to be less than six months—an amount exceeding the amount payable for insuring against loss or damage during the period of his duty oversea his baggage and personal effects or, if the value of his baggage and personal effects exceeds Four hundred dollars, so much of his baggage and personal effects as does not exceed Four hundred dollars in value; or

(b) if the member travels to or from a place at which he is to serve or is serving on long term duty or on intermediate term duty or to or from such a place to another place oversea—an amount exceeding the amount payable for insuring against loss or damage during the period of his travel his baggage and personal effects or, if the value of his baggage and personal effects exceeds Five hundred dollars, so much of his baggage and personal effects as does not exceed Five hundred dollars in value.

“(3.) An amount is not payable under this regulation to a member whose family is provided with a passage to or from a place oversea under Division 6 of this Part.”.

Mileage allowance.

4. Regulation 196 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by adding after the words “in his own motor vehicle” the words “or in a motor vehicle that has been lent to him or that he has hired”.

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By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra