Naval Reserve Regulations 1931 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1939. No. 116.

 

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 eleventh day of October, 1939.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Defence.

 

Amendments of the Naval Reserve Regulations. 

1. Regulation 96 of the Naval Reserve Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Medical attendance and treatment.

“96.—(1.) Medical attendance may be provided for members of the Naval Reserve during periods of training or service.

(2.) The Naval Board may approve of medical attendance being provided for a member of the Naval Reserve subsequent to the period of his training or service, in respect of an injury sustained or an illness which occurred during such period of training or service.

(3.) A member may be required by a Naval Medical Officer to enter a departmental or public hospital for treatment, and if the member refuses to do so, the medical expenses otherwise incurred shall not be defrayed by the Department.”.

Period of treatment.

2. Regulation 98 of the Naval Reserve Regulations is repealed.

3. Regulation 99 of the Naval Reserve Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Private treatment.

“99.—(1.) Except as prescribed in sub-regulation (2.) of this regulation, a member who elects to be treated in a private hospital or in his own home by a private medical practitioner shall assume all financial responsibility in connexion with such treatment.

(2.) In exceptional circumstances, the Naval Board may approve of the whole or a part of the expenses incurred in connexion with the treatment of a member in a private hospital being borne by the Department.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1939.

—Twenty-third amendment.

  Statutory Rules 1931, No. 35, as amended by Statutory Rules 1931, Nos. 79 and 150; 1932, Nos. 65 and 116; 1933, Nos. 6 and 97; 1934, Nos. 19, 103, 129 and 161; 1935, Nos. 35, 55 and 87; 1936, Nos. 9 and 146; 1937, Nos. 6, 59, 89 and 106; 1938, Nos. 44 and 59; and 1939, No. 29.

 

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

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