Naval Financial Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1967 No. 159

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910-1966.*

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 1910-1966.

Dated this twenty-third day of November, 1967.

  

CASEY

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

  

DON CHIPP

Minister of State for the Navy.

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Amendments of the Naval Financial Regulations 

Diving pay.

1. Regulation 117 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by inserting in sub-regulation (2.), after the word “diver” (first occurring), the words “who is not eligible for payment of search and rescue diver’s allowance”.

2.—(1.) After regulation 117 of the Naval Financial Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Search and rescue diver’s allowance.

“117a. An allowance, called ‘search and rescue diver’s allowance’, is payable at such rates and subject to such conditions as the Naval Board determines to a member, being a member who has the qualifications determined by the Naval Board to be the qualifications required by a search and rescue diver, in respect of a period for which the member is drafted for duty as a search and rescue diver.”.

(2.) Subject to sub-regulation (4.) of this regulation, search and rescue diver’s allowance is payable to a member in accordance with the regulation inserted in the Naval Financial Regulations by the last preceding sub-regulation in respect of any period, on or after the twenty-third day of June, 1967, during which the member was or is drafted for duty as a search and rescue diver.

(3.) For the purpose of payment of search and rescue diver’s allowance in accordance with the last preceding sub-regulation, the first determination made by the Naval Board under regulation 117a of the Naval Financial Regulations as amended by these Regulations has effect as if it had been made on the twenty-third day of June, 1967.

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* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1967.

  Statutory Rules 1956, No. 88, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Naval Financial Regulations, see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1967, No. 21, and see also Statutory Rules 1967, Nos. 21, 40, 56, 107 and 109.

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(4.) A member who was drafted for duty as a search and rescue diver during the period from and including the twenty-third day of June, 1967, to and including the day immediately before the commencement of these Regulations or during a part of that period is not entitled to search and rescue diver’s allowance in respect of a day of that period or that part of that period, as the case may be, in respect of which he was paid or is entitled to be paid diving pay at the rate of Fifty cents per day but is, by virtue of this sub-regulation, entitled to be paid an allowance of Twenty-five cents in respect of that day.

Second Schedule.

3. The Second Schedule to the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by inserting after the words and figures—

“Sub-regulation (2.) of regulation 117.”

the words and figures—

“Regulation 117a.”.

Fourth Schedule.

4. The Fourth Schedule to the Naval Financial Regulations is repealed and the following Schedule inserted in its stead:—

FOURTH SCHEDULE Reg. 10.

Rates of Active Pay—Officers of the Medical Branch or Dental Branch

Rank and pay seniority	Rate per day
$
Surgeon Lieutenant or Surgeon Lieutenant (D)—
With less than 1 year’s pay seniority..............................................................................	15.50
With not less than 1 but less than 2 years’ pay seniority................................................	16.18
With not less than 2 but less than 3 years’ pay seniority................................................	16.87
With not less than 3 but less than 4 years’ pay seniority................................................	17.55
With not less than 4 but less than 5 years’ pay seniority................................................	18.24
With not less than 5 years’ pay seniority........................................................................	19.09
Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander or Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander (D)—
With less than 1 year’s pay seniority..............................................................................	19.95
With not less than 1 but less than 2 years’ pay seniority................................................	20.80
With not Jess than 2 but less than 3 years’ pay seniority...............................................	21.93
With not less than 3 years’ pay seniority........................................................................	22.80
Surgeon Commander or Surgeon Commander (D)—
With less than 1 year’s pay seniority..............................................................................	24.99
With not less than 1 year’s pay seniority........................................................................	26.12
Surgeon Captain or Surgeon Captain (D)	28.47

Seventeenth Schedule.

5. The Seventeenth Schedule to the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by omitting Part 2 of Table 1 and inserting in its stead the following Part:—

Part 2.—Medical and Dental Branches

Rank	Rate per day
$
Surgeon Lieutenant or Surgeon Lieutenant (D).................................................................	15.50
Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander or Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander (D).......................	19.95
Surgeon Commander or Surgeon Commander (D)...........................................................	24.99
Surgeon Captain or Surgeon Captain (D)..........................................................................	28.47

Transitional.

6.—(1.) An officer of the Permanent Naval Forces who, during a period or a part of a period specified in the second column of the following table in relation to a rank or a rank and pay seniority specified in the first column of that table held that rank or that rank and pay seniority is, by virtue of this regulation, entitled to receive additional pay in respect of that period or that part of that period of an amount equal to the amount by which the active pay paid or payable to him in respect of that period or that part of that period under the Naval Financial Regulations is less than the amount of active pay that would have been payable to him if he had been entitled to receive active pay at the rate specified in the third column of that table opposite to that period in the second column instead of the appropriate rate specified in the Fourth Schedule to the Naval Financial Regulations.

   

First column	Second column	Third column
Rank and pay seniority (if any)	Period	Rate per day
$
Surgeon Captain............................................	23 December 1966 to 6 July 1967 (inclusive)..............................................	28.36
Surgeon Commander with less than 1 year’s pay seniority	25 November 1966 to 2 February 1967 (inclusive)..............................................	23.71
3 February 1967 to 25 May 1967 (inclusive)..............................................	24.31
26 May 1967 to 6 July 1967 (inclusive)...	24.88
Surgeon Commander with not less than 1 year’s pay seniority....................................	25 November 1966 to 2 February 1967 (inclusive)..............................................	24.80
3 February 1967 to 25 May 1967 (inclusive)..............................................	25.44
26 May 1967 to 6 July 1967 (inclusive)	26.01
Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander with less than 1 year’s pay seniority	25 November 1966 to 8 December 1966 (inclusive)..............................................	18.78
9 December 1966 to 2 February 1967 (inclusive)..............................................	19.33
3 February 1967 to 6 July 1967 (inclusive)..............................................	19.84
Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander with not less than 1 year’s but less than 2 years’ pay seniority	25 November 1966 to 8 December 1966 (inclusive)..............................................	19.61
	9 December 1966 to 2 February 1967 (inclusive)..............................................	20.17
3 February 1967 to 6 July 1967 (inclusive)..............................................	20.69
Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander with not less than 2 but less than 3 years’ pay seniority	25 November 1966 to 2 February 1967 (inclusive)..............................................	20.72
	3 February 1967 to 25 May 1967 (inclusive)..............................................	21.25
26 May 1967 to 6 July 1967 (inclusive)	21.82
Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander with not less than 3 years’ pay seniority	25 November 1966 to 2 February 1967 (inclusive)..............................................	21.57
3 February 1967 to 25 May 1967 (inclusive)..............................................	22.13
26 May 1967 to 6 July 1967 (inclusive)	22.69

 

First column	Second column	Third column
Rank and pay seniority (if any)	Period	Rate per day
$
Surgeon Lieutenant with less than 1 year’s pay seniority	25 November 1966 to 8 December 1966 (inclusive)..............................................	14.45
9 December 1966 to 2 February 1967 (inclusive)..............................................	14.99
3 February 1967 to 6 July 1967 (inclusive)..............................................	15.39
Surgeon Lieutenant with not less than 1 year’s but less than 2 years’ pay seniority	25 November 1966 to 8 December 1966 (inclusive)..............................................	15.12
9 December 1966 to 2 February 1967 (inclusive)..............................................	15.66
3 February 1967 to 6 July 1967 (inclusive)..............................................	16.07
Surgeon Lieutenant with not less than 2 but less than 3 years’ pay seniority	25 November 1966 to 8 December 1966 (inclusive)..............................................	15.78
9 December 1966 to 2 February 1967 (inclusive)..............................................	16.33
3 February 1967 to 6 July 1967 (inclusive)..............................................	16.76
Surgeon Lieutenant with not less than 3 but less than 4 years’ pay seniority	25 November 1966 to 8 December 1966 (inclusive)..............................................	16.45
9 December 1966 to 2 February 1967 (inclusive)..............................................	17.00
3 February 1967 to 6 July 1967 (inclusive)..............................................	17.44
Surgeon Lieutenant with not less than 4 but less than 5 years’ pay seniority	25 November 1966 to 8 December 1966 (inclusive)..............................................	17.12
9 December 1966 to 2 February 1967 (inclusive)..............................................	17.67
3 February 1967 to 6 July 1967 (inclusive)..............................................	18.13
Surgeon Lieutenant with not less than 5 years’ pay seniority	25 November 1966 to 8 December 1966 (inclusive)..............................................	17.95
9 December 1966 to 2 February 1967 (inclusive)..............................................	18.50
3 February 1967 to 6 July 1967 (inclusive)..............................................	18.98

(2.) An officer of the Naval Emergency Reserve Forces or the Citizen Naval Forces who, during a period or a part of a period specified in the second column of the following table in relation to a rank or a rank and pay seniority specified in the first column of that table held that rank or that rank and pay seniority is, by virtue of this regulation, entitled to receive additional pay in respect of that period or that part of that period of an amount equal to the amount by which the active pay paid or payable to him in respect of that period or that part of that period under the Naval Financial Regulations is less than the amount of active pay that would have been payable to him if he had been entitled to receive active pay at the rate specified in the third column of that table opposite to that period in the second column instead of the appropriate rate specified in Part 2 of Table 1 in the Seventeenth Schedule to the Naval Financial Regulations.

 

First column	Second column	Third column
Rank and pay seniority (if any)	Period	Rate per day
$
Surgeon Captain or Surgeon Captain (D)......	23 December 1966 to 6 July 1967 (inclusive)..............................................	28.36
Surgeon Commander or Surgeon Commander (D)	25 November 1966 to 2 February 1967 (inclusive)..............................................	23.71
3 February 1967 to 25 May 1967 (inclusive)..............................................	24.31
26 May 1967 to 6 July 1967 (inclusive)	24.88
Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander or Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander (D)	25 November 1966 to 8 December 1966 (inclusive)..............................................	18.78
9 December 1966 to 2 February 1967 (inclusive)..............................................	19.33
3 February 1967 to 6 July 1967 (inclusive)..............................................	19.84
Surgeon Lieutenant or Surgeon Lieutenant (D)	25 November 1966 to 8 December 1966 (inclusive)..............................................	14.45
9 December 1966 to 2 February 1967 (inclusive)..............................................	14.99
3 February 1967 to 6 July 1967 (inclusive)..............................................	15.39

Application.

7.The rates of active pay provided for in the Naval Financial Regulations as amended by these Regulations in respect of an officer of the Medical Branch or Dental Branch apply in respect of service in the Permanent Naval Forces, the Naval Emergency Reserve Forces or the Citizen Naval Forces, as the case requires, on and after the seventh day of July, 1967.

              

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