Naval Forces Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1950. No. 4.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910-1949*

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 1910-1949

Dated this twenty-fourth day of January, 1950.

W.J. McKell

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for the Navy

 

Amendments of the Naval Forces Regulations. 

Definitions.

1. Regulation 4 of the Naval Forces Regulations is amended—

(a)by inserting, before the definition of “Cadet Midshipman”, the following definition:—

“ ‘British subject’ has the same meaning as in the Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948.”; and

(b) by inserting, after the definition of “Men”, the following definition:—

“ ‘Naturalized person’ has the same meaning as in the Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948.”.

Australia Naval Station.

2. Regulation 23 of the Naval Forces Regulations is amended by inserting after the figures and symbols “115° 50′ ” the word “East”.

Undertaking by parent or guardian of Cadet Midshipman (Special Entry).

3. Regulation 49d of the Naval Forces Regulations is amended by omitting all the words from and including the words “the total” to the end of the regulation and inserting in their stead the words Seventy-five pounds in respect of each complete year’s training, and a proportionate amount in respect of each portion of a year’s training, undergone, and the sum so fixed shall be a debt due by the parent or guardian or his executors or administrators to the Commonwealth And may be recovered in any Court of competent jurisdiction”.

  

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Gazette on 1949.––Twenty-second amendment

Statutory Rules 1935, No. 133, as amended by Statutory Rules 1936, Nos. 63 and 119; 1938, Nos. 20, 46, 70 and 91; Nos. 91, 1939, Nos. 26, 27, 72 and 143; 1940, Nos. 123, 135, 147, 197, 217 and 240; 1941, Nos. 21, 187, 215 and 242; 1942, Nos. 48 and 202; 1943, No. 42; 1944, No. 63; 1946, Nos. 26 and 32; 1947, Nos. 34 and 130; and 1948, Nos. 37, 87 and 88.

4259.—Price 3d. 10/3.11.1949.

Qualifications for Instructor Branch.

4. Regulation 57 of the Naval Forces Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (b)of sub-regulation (2.) the words “natural-born or naturalized”; and

(b)by omitting from the proviso to that sub-regulation the words “British subject” and inserting in their stead the word “person”.

Qualifications for entry.

5. Regulation 60 of the Naval Forces Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (b) the words “natural-born or naturalized”; and

(b)by omitting from that paragraph the words “British subject” and inserting in their stead the word “person”.

Entry of medical officers for temporary service.

6. Regulation 72 of the Naval Forces Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (2.) the words “natural born or naturalized”; and

(b)by omitting from that paragraph the words “British subject” and inserting in their stead the word “person”.

Dental surgeons.

7. Regulation 74 of the Naval Forces Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (b)the words “natural born or naturalized”; and

(b)by omitting from, that paragraph the word’s “British subject” and inserting in their stead the word” person”.

Emergency List.

8. Regulation 105 of the Naval Forces Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (3.).

9. After regulation 117 of the Naval Forces Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Review of discharges.

“117a. The Naval Board may review all matters concerning a discharge and, if it appears to the Naval Board that the reason for which the discharge has been effected is inappropriate to the circumstances of the case, the Naval Board may direct that the record of the discharge be amended by substituting for the reason recorded such other reason specified in these Regulations, or in the King’s Regulations and Admiralty Instructions in their application to the Naval Forces, as the Naval Board considers appropriate.”.

Retiring age other than Instructor Branch.

10. Regulation 121 of the Naval Forces Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulations (4.), (5.) and (6.) and inserting in their stead the following sub-regulations:—

“(4.) A rating appointed to the Auxiliary Services (other than as a member of the Shore Wireless Service or the Naval Dockyard Police) on or after the first day of August, 1933, shall be compulsorily discharged on his attaining the age of fifty years.

“(5.) A rating appointed to the Shore Wireless Service or to the Naval Dockyard Police shall be compulsorily discharged on his attaining the age of fifty-five years.”.

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.