Naval Forces Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1939. No. 26.

 

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 DefenceAct 1910-1934.

Dated this nineteenth dayof April, 1939.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Defence.

 

Amendments of the Naval Forces Regulations. 

Regulation 141 of the Naval Forces Regulations is amended—

Leave in respect of service abroad.

(a) by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (1.) the words “or man”;

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (3.) the word “Leave” (first occurring) and inserting in its stead the words “Except as provided by sub-regulation (4.) of this regulation, leave”; and

(c) by omitting sub-regulation (4.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulations:—

“(4.) A man on loan from the Royal Navy may be granted leave not exceeding forty-two days per annum whilst on service abroad. Portion of this leave, not exceeding twenty-two days per annum may be deferred and taken as foreign service leave on his return to the United Kingdom:

Provided that, if a man on loan from the Royal Navy does not complete twelve months’ service abroad, he may be granted only such portion of the leave prescribed by this sub-regulation as may be taken as foreign service leave calculated in accordance with the provisions of sub-regulation (5.) of this regulation.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1939.——Seventh amendment.

  Statutory Rules 1935, No. 133, as amended by Statutory Rules 1936, Nos. 63 and 119; 1938, Nos. 20, 46, 70 and 91.

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“(5.) The leave which, in pursuance of sub-regulation (4.) of this regulation, may be granted to a man on loan from the Royal Navy in respect of service abroad and taken by him as foreign service leave on his return to the United Kingdom shall be calculated as follows:—

(a) where the period of service abroad is not less than six months—at the rate of eleven days for each completed six months’ service, and at the rate of two days for each completed month’s service in excess of such six-monthly period or periods; or

(b) where the period of service abroad is less than six months—at the rate of two days for each completed month’s service.

“(6.) In this regulation ‘service abroad’ means—

(a) in the case of a member of the Royal Australian Navy—all service outside the Australia Naval Station, except as provided by regulation 138 of these Regulations; and

(b) in the case of a member of the Royal Navy—all service in the Royal Australian Navy except a period of service in the United Kingdom or in British home waters.”.

 

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