Naval Forces Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 202.

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REGULATIONS 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 Regulations under the Naval Defence Act 1910–1934.

Dated this twenty-ninth day of April, 1942.

(SGD.) GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for the Navy.

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Amendments of the Naval Forces Regulations. 

1. After regulation 31 of the Naval Forces Regulations, the following regulation is inserted:—

Qualified officers.

“31a. An officer of the Citizen Naval Forces who has the qualifications prescribed by the Admiralty Regulations for officers of the Royal Naval Reserve for the status of qualified officer shall be designated a ‘Qualified Officer’.”.

2. Regulation 34 of the Naval Forces Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Petty officers and men.

“34.—(1) Subject to this regulation, petty officers and men shall rank and command as laid down in the King’s Regulations and Admiralty Instructions.

“(2) A petty officer or man of the Royal Australian Fleet Reserve shall rank and command with but after corresponding ratings of the Permanent Naval Forces, irrespective of seniority.

“(3) A petty officer or man of the Royal Australian Naval Reserve or the Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve shall rank and command with but after corresponding ratings of the Permanent Naval Forces and the Royal Australian Fleet Reserve, irrespective of seniority.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1942.—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; 1939, Nos. 26, 27, 72 and 143; 1940, Nos. 123, 135, 147, 197, 217 and 240; 1941, Nos. 21, 187, 215 and 242; and 1942, No. 48.

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“(4) Petty Officers and men of the Royal Australian Naval Reserve and the Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve shall, in relation to corresponding ratings of those sections of the Citizen Naval Forces, rank and command according to seniority.”

3. Regulation 36 of the Naval Forces Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Precedence in Naval Forces.

“36. The order of precedence of the various sections of the Australian Naval Forces shall be as follows:—

(1) Permanent Naval Forces;

(2) Royal Australian Fleet Reserve;

(3) Royal Australian Naval Reserve (Sea-going);

(4) Royal Australian Naval Reserve and the Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve.”

4. After regulation 36 of the Naval Forces Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Officers of the several sections of the Naval Forces.

“36a.—(1) Officers of the Naval Forces shall take precedence and shall rank and command in accordance with their relative rank.

“(2) Officers of the Permanent Naval Forces and Qualified Officers of the Citizen Naval Forces of corresponding rank shall rank and command according to seniority:

Provided that, if the seniority of two or more such officers and Qualified Officers is the same, they shall rank and command according to the order of precedence of the respective sections of the Naval Forces to which they belong.

“(3) Officers of the Citizen Naval Forces who are not Qualified Officers shall rank and command after officers of the Permanent Naval Forces and Qualified Officers of the Citizen Naval Forces of corresponding rank, and shall rank and command—

(a) in relation to officers, not being Qualified Officers, of corresponding rank in their own section of the Citizen Naval Forces—according to seniority; and

(b) in relation to officers, not being Qualified Officers of corresponding rank in other sections of the Citizen Naval Forces—according to the order of precedence of the respective sections of the Citizen Naval Forces to which they belong.

“(4) An officer of the Royal Australian Naval Reserve or the Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve shall command members of the Naval Forces agreeably to his rank in all matters relating to their duties, but he shall not assume any naval command whatsoever, unless ordered to do so by his superior naval officer, and he is to be in all matters whatsoever under the command of the Captain or Commanding Officer or other superior officer of the ship or establishment in which he is serving.”.

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