Naval Forces Regulations 1926 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1927. No. 103.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910-1918.

I, THE 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 1st January, 1927.

Dated this twenty-fourth day of August, 1927,

SOMERS,

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

T. W. GLASGOW,

Minister of State for Defence.

 

Amendment of Naval Forces Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1926, No. 196.)

(Third Amendment.)

Regulation 134 is amended by inserting after sub-regulation (1) the following sub-regulation:—

“(1a) For the purposes of this regulation, a member of the Naval Forces shall be considered to be under treatment for venereal disease on any day when, in consequence of having contracted such disease, he is receiving medical treatment therefor and does not perform the full duties of his rank or rating, provided that—

(a) any member whose condition is certified by a medical officer as not being due to his own default or to whom a Hurt certificate has been granted and

(b) any member requiring periodic treatment for syphilis subsequent to being pronounced fit for draft to any ship after the initial course of treatment—

shall not be subject to the penalty prescribed in this regulation.”

 

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