Naval Volunteer Reserve Regulations 1926 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1939. No. 30.

 

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 nineteenth day of April, 1939.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Defence.

 

Amendments of the Naval Volunteer Reserve Regulations,  

Definitions.

1. Regulation 3 of the Naval Volunteer Reserve Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting, after the word “appears—”, the following definition:—

“‘Authorized depot’ means, in relation to any member, the Naval Reserve Depot approved by the Naval Board as the member’s home depot.”; and

(b) by omitting the definition of “Sub-District Naval Officer”.

Retirements and discharges.

2. Regulation 11 of the Naval Volunteer Reserve Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (2) the words “or Sub-District”.

Losses of loan bedding and clothing.

3. Regulation 27 of the Naval Volunteer Reserve Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (2) the words “or Sub-District”.

4. Regulation 33 of the Naval Volunteer Reserve Regulations is repealed, and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Arrangements for drills.

“33. District Naval Officers shall arrange the instruction in their Districts in accordance with the orders issued by the Director.”.

5. Regulation 34 of the Naval Volunteer Reserve Regulations is repealed, and the following regulations inserted in its stead:—

Periods of obligatory training.

“34.—(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-regulations (4), (5), (6) and (7) of this regulation, a member shall be required to complete fourteen days’ drill, including at least seven days’ continuous training

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

  Statutory Rules 1926, No. 1, as amended by Statutory Rules 1927, No. 80; 1928, Nos. 32 and 59; 1929, No. 5; and 1930, No. 125.

276—9/27.3.1939.—Price 3d.

in one of H.M.A. Ships or Naval Establishments, during the training year in which he is enrolled and during each alternate year following that year.

(2) The training to be completed in each alternate year may be carried out in one of H.M.A. Ships or Naval Establishments, but every member shall attend at least one registration muster at his authorized depot in each half-year.

(3) If in any training year facilities for the carrying out of the continuous training prescribed by this regulation are not available to any member, the District Naval Officer may exempt that member from such training.

(4) A member enrolled under the provisions of paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (2) of regulation 5 of these Regulations, being under 25 years of age, shall be required to perform a period of training in each year not less than the period which he would be required to perform in the Royal Australian Naval Reserve. This training may be performed in any of H.M.A. Ships or Naval Establishments in one or more periods within the year.

(5) The obligatory training of any member of the Telegraphist Branch, who is employed at a Radio Station, may be limited to such instruction as can conveniently be arranged at that Station.

(6) The obligatory training of an officer of the Anti-Submarine Branch shall be as follows:—

(a) Within one year of appointment to the branch—a qualifying course of 26 days; and

(b) In each year—28 days’ drill divided into whole-day drills, half-day drills and night drills.

(7) In addition to the obligatory qualifying course and annual drills prescribed in sub-regulation (6) of this regulation, an officer of the Anti-Submarine Branch may be permitted to undertake voluntary continuous training not exceeding 13 days annually.

(8) A member who fails to attend the required number of drills during any training year may be discharged from the Naval Volunteer Reserve unless he furnishes to the District Naval Officer a satisfactory explanation of such failure.

Duration of drills.

“34a.—(1) The duration of drills prescribed in these Regulations shall be as follows:—

A whole-day drill—not less than 6 hours;

A half-day drill—not less than 3 hours;

A night drill—not less than 2 hours.

(2) For the purposes of continuous training, a day shall comprise the whole 24 hours.”.

Leave of absence from obligatory training.

6. Regulation 38 of the Naval Volunteer Reserve Regulations is amended by omitting the words “or Sub-District”.

7. Regulation 40 of the Naval Volunteer Reserve Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Pay and allowances during training and courses.

“40.—(1) Except as provided in this regulation, a member shall not be entitled to any pay or allowances in respect of the training prescribed by regulation 34 of these Regulations.

(2) A member shall be paid Active Pay at the rates prescribed for the corresponding rank or rating in the Permanent Naval Forces (Sea-going) in respect of any period of continuous training or voluntary service in one of H.M.A. Ships or Naval Establishments and when travelling between the drillroom to which he is attached and the Ship or Establishment in which the training or service is performed.

(3) In addition to the pay to which he is entitled under sub-regulation (2) of this regulation, an officer of the Anti-Submarine Branch shall be paid Active Pay at the rates prescribed for the corresponding rank in the Permanent Naval Forces (Sea-going) in respect of the qualifying course and the annual drills prescribed in sub-regulation (6) of regulation 34 of these Regulations.

(4) Subject to qualifying, after completing the obligatory course prescribed by paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (6) of regulation 34, an officer of the Anti-Submarine Branch may be paid a Specialist Allowance at the rate of 2s. 6d. per day for the actual number of days during which he performs the annual drills and voluntary continuous training prescribed by paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (6) and by sub-regulation (7) of regulation 34 of these Regulations:

Provided that the total number of days for which payment is made shall not exceed the maximum number of days prescribed by those sub-regulations.”.

Commencement.

8. These Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation as from the sixteenth day of February, 1939.

 

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