Naval Forces Regulations 1906 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1920. No. 156.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910-1918.

I, SIR WILLIAM HILL IRVINE, Deputy of 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 1910-1918, to come into operation on and from the dates specified therein.

Dated this eighth day of September, 1920.

W. H. IRVINE,

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. H. LAIRD SMITH,

Minister of State for the Navy.

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Amendment of the Naval Forces Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1906, No. 20, as amended to present date.)

1. After regulation 55 the following regulations are inserted, to come into operation forthwith:—

“56. (1) An Officer of the Permanent Forces may, at the discretion of the Naval Board, be placed on a Half-pay List at any time when his services cannot conveniently be fully employed in His Majesty’s Australian ships or Naval Establishments, or when the Naval Board considers that, for any reason, he should not be employed on the Active List of the Naval Service.

(2) An Officer who is placed on the Half-pay List shall receive pay at the rate of one-half of the full Active pay of his rank exclusive of all allowances.

57. An Officer who has been on the Half-pay List for a consecutive period of six months may, if not then re-employed, be placed on the Retired List when Half-pay shall cease. An Officer who has been on the Half-pay List for twelve consecutive months shall be placed on the Retired List from the date on which the twelve months’ Half-pay time is completed.”

2. Regulation 70 is amended as from 1st January, 1920, as follows:—

(1) Sub-regulation (1) is amended by inserting after the words “which include” the words “Sundays and.”

(2) By adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(5) The scale of leave prescribed in sub-regulation (1) for Harbor Establishments shall apply also to Officers and Men of the Royal Australian Naval Auxiliary Services provided that, in such cases, a year for leave purposes shall commence on the first day of February in each year, and terminate on the thirty-first day of January in the following year.”

 

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