Naval Forces Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1923. No. 81.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910-1918.

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 1910-1918, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-seventh day of June, 1923.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

E. K. BOWDEN,

Minister of State for Defence.

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Amendment of Naval Forces Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1921, No. 1, as amended to present date.)

1. Regulation 6 is amended as follows:—

(1) By omitting sub-paragraphs (xi), (xii), and (xiii) of paragraph (a),and inserting in their stead the following sub-paragraphs:—

“(xi) Section 98a of the Act shall in relation to the Commonwealth Naval Forces, be modified—

(a) as if for the words bastard child’ in sub-sections (1) and (2) (b) thereof, the words ‘ex-nuptial child’ were substituted.

(b) as if for the words ‘and for pre-maternity expenses in connexion with such child’ were inserted after the word ‘father’ in sub-section (1) thereof.

(c) As if for sub-paragraphs (i), (ii), and (iii) of sub section (2) thereof, the following sub-paragraphs were substituted:—

(i) in respect of a wife and child, or two or more children, three-fifths of the daily rate of pay.

(ii) in respect of a wife, or one child alone— two-fifths of the daily rate of pay.

(iii) in respect of an ex-nuptial child, or in respect of pre-maternity expenses in connexion with an ex-nuptial child—one-fifth of the daily rate of pay.

(d) as if the words ‘deferred pay and’ were inserted immediately after the words ‘other than’”.

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(2) By inserting in paragraph (b) after the word “when” the words “the ships are”.

(3) By inserting after paragraph (b) the following paragraph:—

“(c) (i) Any person in or belonging to the Commonwealth Naval Forces, who, by order of the Naval Board or of the Admiralty or of the Commander-in-Chief or the Senior Naval Officers present on a foreign station, is serving in a ship of or belonging to the Royal Navy or the Naval Forces of a self-governing Dominion or in a naval establishment of the Royal Navy or a self-governing Dominion, or who is on board any such ship or in any such establishment awaiting passage or conveyance to any destination shall, for all purposes of command and discipline, be subject to the laws and customs for the time being applicable to the Royal Navy or the ships and Naval Forces of the self-governing Dominion, as the case may be.

(ii) For the purposes of the preceding sub-paragraph the expression ‘self-governing Dominion means the Dominion of Canada, the Dominion of New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, or Newfoundland.”

 

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