Naval Reserve Regulations 1922 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1926. No. 51.

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.

 

Dated this sixteenth day of April, 1926.

STONEHAVEN,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

 

THOS. W. CRAWFORD,

for Minister of State for Defence.

 

Amendment of naval Reserve Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1922, No. 165, as amended to present date.)

(Eighth Amendment.)

 

1. These Regulations are amended by omitting the words “Navy Revenue” wherever appearing and inserting in their stead the words “Defence Revenue, Naval”.

2. Regulation 177 is amended by omitting all the words after the words “in peace time” and inserting in their stead the following:—

“and shall be replaced at approved periods. The uniform, including any articles which have been supplied to replace others worn out, lost, &c., shall remain the property of the Government until replaced, or until the member is discharged from the Royal Australian Naval Reserve after completion of the compulsory period of universal training, when a rating may retain as his personal property all articles of uniform with the exception of those which the Naval Board may by Standing Instructions require to be otherwise disposed of.”

3. Regulation 179 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(2) On demobilization from service under Proclamation, if still liable to training under the Defence Act, a rating will be required to maintain and account for the articles of kit issued under peace conditions applicable to his rating until finally discharged from the Royal Australian Naval Reserve.”

 

4. Regulation 181 is amended by omitting sub-regulation (2).

5. Regulation 183 is amended by omitting all the words after the words “with the exception that” and inserting in their stead the following:—

“(a) A Band Rating, other than a Chief Petty Officer, shall, in addition, wear on the right sleeve a badge representing a lyre.

(b) A Chief Petty Officer Bandsman shall wear a badge representing a lyre on each side of the collar.”

 

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