Naval Forces of the Commonwealth Regulations 1906 (Amendment) (Provisional) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1914. No. 83.

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PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910-1912.

Regulations (Provisional) for the Naval Forces of the Commonwealth—Part II.—Permanent Naval Forces—Regulation No. 18—Amendment.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the following Regulations under the Naval Defence Act 1910-12 should come into immediate operation, and, further, should be taken to have come into operation on the 1st day of July, 1913, and make the Regulations to come into operation accordingly as Provisional Regulations.

Dated this thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

E. D. MILLEN.

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REGULATIONS (PROVISIONAL) FOR THE NAVAL FORCES OF THE COMMONWEALTH.

Additions.

Part II—Permanent Naval Forces.

Section I.—Entries, Commissions, and Promotions of Officers; and Section II.—Entry and Promotion of Seamen, Stokers, and Boys.

Add to Regulation 18—as amended by Statutory Rule 1912, No. 241—

18. (2) Chief Petty Officers on the Administrative and Instructional Staff who were in the Commonwealth Permanent Naval Forces immediately prior to 1st July, 1911, and who had not less than six years’ service in that Force on that date, may qualify for the rank of Warrant Officer, Administrative and Instructional Staff, by passing the examination laid down for that rank (vide Appendix A).

(3) Other Chief Petty Officers on the Administrative and Instructional Staff wishing to qualify for Warrant Officer must serve for two years in a sea-going ship, and pass the examinations laid down for the Sea-going Forces; except that, as a temporary measure, candidates who, before 30th June, 1913, applied to be examined for the rank of Warrant Officer, Administrative and Instructional Staff, may be promoted to that rank on passing the examination laid down for such rank in the same manner as those Chief Petty Officers referred to in paragraph (2).

   

Appendix “A,” referred to in Statutory Rule No. 83, Regulation 18, Paragraph (2).

Standard of Examination for Candidates for Rank of Warrant Officer, Administrative and Instructional Staff.

(a) Educational—

To be able to write a legible hand.

To be able to spell.

To know the first four rules of arithmetic, least common multiple, and greatest common measure.

To be able to add, subtract, divide, and multiply by vulgar fractions or decimals.

(b) Gunnery—

To understand the mechanism of the 4-in. or 6-in.B.L., 4.7-in. 12-pounder, and 3-pounder Q.F.

To be able to take any number at the gun and to instruct and drill a gun’s crew.

To know and to be able to instruct in the Rifle and Field Exercises for H.M. Fleet (omitting Brigade Drill).

(c) Ammunition—

To know and to be able to instruct in the ammunition for guns 4-in. (or 6-in.) B.L., 4.7-in., 12-pounder, and 3-pounder Q.F., and the ammunition kept at the various drill-rooms for the Reserve.

(d) Seamanship—

To be able to instruct in the syllabus laid down for the Reserve.

(e) Physical Exercise—

To be able to instruct in the syllabus laid down for the Reserve.

(f) Office Work and Routine—

To be able to keep the records, returns, &c., connected with the Reserve.

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