Naval Forces Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1944. No. 63.

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REGULATION UNDER THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910–1934.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Naval Defence Act 1910–1934.

Dated this sixth day of April, 1944.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for the Navy.

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Amendment of the Naval Forces Regulations. 

After regulation 6 of the Naval Forces Regulations, the following regulation is inserted:—

Wills.

“6a.—(1.) This regulation shall apply to every member of the Naval Forces who, in time of war, is in receipt of pay at the rates proscribed for the Permanent Naval Forces (Sea-going) and who—

(a) has attained the age of twenty-one years, or

(b) not having attained that age, is at sea or is so circumstanced that if he were a soldier he would be in actual military service within the meaning of any Act, State Act or Ordinance of a Territory of the Commonwealth relating to soldiers’ and sailors’ wills.

“(2.) Each member to whom this regulation applies shall, within three months after the date upon which the regulation first applies to him—

(a) make a will, or

(b) if he has made a will which is in existence and valid, certify, on such form as the Naval Board approves, as to the whereabouts of the will,

and deliver that will or certificate, as the case may be, to his Commanding Officer.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1944.—Twenty-fourth amendment.

  Statutory Rules 1935, No. 133, as amended by Statutory Rules 1936, Nos. 63 and 119; 1938, Nos. 20, 46, 70 and 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; and 1943, No. 42.

6564.—Price 3d.

20/29.3.1944.

 

“(3.) Each member to whom this regulation applies who marries or otherwise revokes a will which has been made or the whereabouts of which has been notified in accordance with sub-regulation (2.) of this regulation shall, within one month after the marriage or other mode of revocation, make a will and deliver it or a certificate on the approved form as to its whereabouts to his Commanding Officer.

“(4.) Upon his receipt of a will or certificate delivered to him in accordance with this regulation, the Commanding Officer shall forward the document to such officer as the Naval Board appoints to have custody of such documents.

“(5.) Where any member to whom this regulation applies makes a codicil to his will, the provisions of this regulation shall apply in relation to the codicil in like manner as if it were a will.”.

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By Authority: L. F.