Naval Reserve Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1969 No. 125

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910-1968.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the fallowing Regulations under the Naval Defence Act 1910-1968.

Dated this fifteenth day of August, 1969.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

C. R. KELLY

Minister of State for the Navy,

 

Amendments of the Naval Reserve Regulations 

Heading to section I.

1. The heading to Section I. of Part I. of the Naval Reserve Regulations is repealed.

Parts

2. Regulation 3 of the Naval Reserve Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting the words—

“Section I.—Preliminary.

Section II.—Definitions.”; and

(b) by omitting the words—

“Section II.—Extra Training and Service.”.

Heading to section II.

3. The heading to Section II. of Part I. of the Naval Reserve Regulations is repealed.

4. After regulation 4 of the Naval Reserve Regulations the following regulation is inserted in Part I. of those Regulations:—

Delegations.

“4a.—(1.) The Naval Board may, by instrument in writing, delegate to a person, either generally or otherwise as provided in the instrument of delegation, all or any of its powers and functions under these Regulations, except this power of delegation.

“(2.) A power or function delegated by the Naval Board under this regulation may be exercised or performed by the delegate in accordance with the instrument of delegation.

“(3.) A delegation under this regulation is revocable at will and does not prevent the exercise of a power or the performance of a function by the Naval Board.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1969.

  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; 1939, Nos. 29 and 116; 1940, Nos. 11, 81 and 255; 1941, Nos. 57, 81, 124, 217 and 238; 1942, Nos. 94, 180, 203, 250 and 509; 1943, Nos. 34, 202 and 311; 1944, No. 144; 1946, No. 55; 1950, No. 3; 1953, No. 17; and 1965, No. 164.

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5. Sections I. and II. of Part VII. of the Naval Reserve Regulations are repealed and the following section is inserted in their stead:—

“Section I.–Obligatory Training.

Obligatory training.

“69.—(1.) Subject to the succeeding sub-regulations of this regulation, for the purposes of sub-section (1.) of section 32a of the Naval Defence Act 1910-1968—

(a) the period of naval service that a member, being a Medical Officer or a Dental Officer, is bound to render in a training year is a period of thirteen days; and

(b)the periods of naval service that a member, other than a Medical Officer, a Dental Officer or a cadet, is bound to render in a training year are—

(i) in the case of an officer holding the rank of captain or commander—such periods amounting in the aggregate to not less than thirteen days or more than twenty-eight days as the Naval Board determines; and

(ii) in any other case—periods amounting in the aggregate to twenty-eight days.

“(2.) Where a member, other than a cadet, is appointed to or enrolled in the Royal Australian Naval Reserve after the first day of a training year, the period of naval service that that member is bound to render for the purposes of sub-section (1.) of section 32aof the Naval Defence Act 1910-1968 in respect of the balance of that training year is such period as the Naval Board, subject to sub-regulation (4.) of this regulation, determines.

“(3.) Where in a training year a member, other than a cadet, will attain the age of his compulsory retirement or complete the period for which he has enlisted or re-engaged on a day that is not the last day of that training year, the period of naval service that that member is bound to render for the purposes of sub-section (1.) of section 32aof the Naval Defence Act 1910-1968 in respect of the part of the training year prior to his attaining that age or completing that period is such period as the Naval Board, subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, determines.

“(4.) A period of service determined by the Naval Board in respect of a member under sub-regulation (2.) or (3.) of this regulation shall not exceed, in the case of aMedical Officer or a Dental Officer, thirteen days or, in the case of any other member, twenty-eight days.

“(5.) In this regulation, ‘training year’, in relation to amember, means a period of twelve consecutive months commencing on a first day of July.”.

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