Naval Financial Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1964. No 167

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910-1964.*

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 1910-1964.

Dated this twenty-fourth day of December, 1964.

DE L’ISLE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

F. CHANEY

Minister of State for the Navy.

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Amendments of the Naval Financial Regulations. 

Education allowance.

1.—(1.) Regulation 122 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (2.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulations:—

“(2.) Where the family of a member has been removed at the expense of the Department under regulation 231 of these Regulations and, as a result of that removal, the member arranges for his child to receive full time education at a recognized secondary school in the locality from which the family was so removed, an allowance, called ‘education allowance is payable to the member, subject to sub-regulation (2b.) of this regulation and to such conditions as the Naval Board determines, in respect of the attendance of the child at the school.

“(2a.) The amount of education allowance payable to a member in respect of the attendance of his child at a school is—

(a) for each complete school year or for a part of a school year for which the child attends the school as a boarder—such amount, not exceeding Four hundred and thirty pounds, as the Naval Board considers reasonable having regard to the expenses incurred by the member in respect of or incidental to the attendance of the child at the school during the period and the other circumstances of the particular case;

(b) for each complete school term that the child attends the school otherwise than as a boarder—an amount of Seventy-three pounds six shillings and eightpence; or

(c) for a period less than a complete school term that the child attends the school otherwise than as a boarder—such amount

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 29 December, 1964

 Statutory Rules 1956, No. 88, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Naval Financial Regulations, see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1964, No. 5, and see also Statutory Rules 1964, Nos. 5, 15, 16, 50, 51, 60, 90, 101, 104, 130 and 139.

14858/64.—Price 9d. 9/27.11.1964.

 

not exceeding Seventy-three pounds six shillings and eight-pence as the Naval Board considers reasonable having regard to the circumstances of the particular case.

“(2b.) Education allowance ceases to be payable to a member in respect of the attendance of his child at a school upon the member again taking up duty, or his family again taking up residence, in the locality in which the school is situated.”.

(2.) Education allowance is payable in accordance with the provisions of regulation 122 of the Naval Financial Regulations as amended by the last preceding sub-regulation in respect of the attendance of a child at a school on and after the third day of September, 1964.

2. After regulation 238 of the Naval Financial Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Passages to Australia for member appointed or enlisted oversea.

“238a. Where a person in an oversea country is appointed an officer of the Permanent Naval Forces or enlisted in a part of those forces, passages for his family from that country to Australia may, with the approval of the Minister, be provided at the expense of the Department.”.

Storage and transport of effects and class of accommodation during passage.

3. Regulation 239 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (1.) the word “and” (last occurring); and

(b) by adding at the end thereof the following word and paragraph:—

“;and (e) the member may be reimbursed by the Department such expenses incurred in the course of, or incidental to, the transportation as the Naval Board determines.”.

4. After regulation 240 of the Naval Financial Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Passage for child attending school, in another country.

“240a.—(1.) Where—

(a) a member is serving in an oversea country;

(b)a passage to the country was provided for a child of the member at the expense of the Department, or the member was reimbursed under regulation 235 of these Regulations in respect of the passage of the child, to the country;

(c)the member has arranged for the child to undertake or continue full time education at a school in Australia or the United Kingdom; and

(d)an allowance in respect of the education of the child at the school will be or is payable in accordance with a determination of the Naval Board made under regulation 105 of these Regulations,

passages for the child between the place at which the member is serving and the place at which the child is to be or is being educated may, on such occasions and subject to such conditions as the Naval Board determines be provided by the Department.

“(2.) Where—

(a) a child of a member was, when the member was appointed or drafted for service in an oversea country, included in the family of the member for the purposes of this Division;

(b)the child continued full time education at a school in Australia or the United Kingdom instead of travelling to that oversea country; and

(c) passages were, or could, with the approval of the Minister, be or have been provided for the family of the member to the oversea country under this Division,

the last preceding sub-regulation applies to the child as if paragraph (b) were omitted,

“(3.) Where—

(a) the child of a member is being educated in such circumstances that a passage for the child would, on an appropriate occasion, be provided under sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation; and

(b)the member or his wife travels, otherwise than at the expense of the Department, to the place at which the child is being educated,

an amount equal to—

(c) the amount of the expenses incurred by the member in respect of his or his wife’s travel to that place and back to the place at which he is serving; or

(d)the amount of the cost that would have been incurred by the Department if passages for the child between those places had been provided by the Department,

whichever is the less may, with the approval of the Minister, be paid to the member in respect of the travel.

“(4.) Whenever payment is made to a member in relation to a child under the last preceding sub-regulation, the child ceases, on one occasion, to be eligible for the provision of passages from the place at which the child is being educated to the place at which the member is serving and back to that first-mentioned place under sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation.”.

5. Regulation 260 of the Naval Financial Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Members on loan from the Royal Navy or from the Royal New Zealand Navy.

“260.—(1.) A member of the Royal Navy or of the Royal New Zealand Navy who has signed an agreement to serve on loan with the Royal Australian Navy is entitled to be paid, in respect of his service with the Royal Australian Navy, pay and allowances at such rates and subject to such conditions as the Naval Board determines.

“(2.) Subject to the last preceding sub-regulation, the terms and conditions of the service in the Royal Australian Navy of a person referred to in that sub-regulation are as determined by the Naval Board.”.

Accommodation compensatory allowance.

6. Regulation 262 of the Naval Financial Regulations is repealed.

Second Schedule.

7. The Second Schedule to the Naval Financial Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting after the words and figures—

“Sub-regulation (3.) of regulation 237.”

the word and figures—

“Regulation 238a.”;

and

(b) by omitting the word and figures—

“Regulation 262.”.

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