Naval Forces Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1922. No. 175.

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, unless otherwise specified herein.

Dated this twentieth day of December, 1922.

FORSTER,

Governor- General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. MASSY GREENE,

Minister of State for Defence.

 

Amendment of Naval Forces Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1921, No. 1, as amended by Statutory Rules 1922, No. 76.)

1. Regulation 36a is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:—

“(3) In the absence of the District Naval Officer on short leave, i.e., for periods not exceeding four days, the next senior officer of the Royal Australian Naval Reserve Staff at the port where the District Naval Officer has his office, irrespective of whether such Officer is a Sub-District Naval Officer or an Officer on the Staff of the Sub-District Naval Officer, shall act for the District Naval Officer and sign all papers ‘for D.N.O., absent on leave.’”

“(4) In the absence of the District Naval Officer on long leave or from any other cause for a period exceeding four days, the next Senior Officer of the Royal Australian Naval Reserve Staff in the District shall assume command of the District, unless special arrangements shall have been made for some other Officer to be appointed temporarily as Acting District Naval Officer, and shall sign papers ‘for D.N.O., absent on leave’ (sick or otherwise, as the case may be). If the next senior Officer of the District is stationed at a Port other than that in which the District Naval Officer has his office, and in another Sub-District, it shall be the duty of the District Naval Officer, before proceeding on leave or on duty (or of the senior Officer at the Head-quarters port of the District, in case of sickness or emergency) to obtain instructions from the Director of Naval Reserves and Naval Reserve Mobilization as to the temporary command of the District.”

2. Regulation 62 is amended as follows:—

(1) by omitting from the first line of sub-regulation (1) the word “two” and inserting in its stead the word “ten”.

(2) by omitting sub-regulation (2) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation—

“(2) The period of appointment shall be for three years, provided that, in the case of an Officer who is on loan from the Royal Navy, his appointment as Honorary Aide-de-Camp shall cease at the same time as he ceases to be attached to the Royal Australian Navy, if that occurs before the period of three years is completed.”

3. Regulation 112 is amended by omitting the words “and other” in the second last line and inserting in their stead the words “Officers from Warrant Rank and”.

4. Regulation 114 is amended by omitting from the last line the words “under regulation 97 to” and inserting in their stead the words “under these Regulations for”.

5. Regulation 115 is amended as from 31st May, 1922, by inserting after the words “Commissioned Officer” in the seventh line of the table in sub-regulation (1) the-word “promoted”.

 

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