Royal Military College Regulations 1951 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1957. No. 42.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1956.*

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 Defence Act 1903-1956.

Dated this 7th day of August, 1957.

W. J. Slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

J. O. CRAMER

Minister of State for the Army.

Amendments of the Royal Military College Regulations. 

Conditions of eligibility of Commonwealth candidates.

1. Regulation 5 of the Royal Military College Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting, after paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (2.), the following paragraph:—

“(aa) he is unmarried;”; and

(b) by inserting, after paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (3.), the following paragraph:—

“(aa) he is unmarried;”.

2. Regulation 50 of the Royal Military College Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Payments to cadets.

“50. The Commandant may at any time issue to a cadet the amount standing to the credit of the account of the cadet (excluding payments credited to his account under sub-regulation (3.) of regulation 46 of these Regulations) and the amount so issued shall be debited to the account of the cadet.”.

Amounts to be debited to cadets’ accounts.

3. Regulation 55 of the Royal Military College Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting paragraph (b); and

(b) by omitting paragraph (d) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

“(d) laundry charges for personal clothing; and”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 15th August, 1957.

  Statutory Rules 1951, No. 40, as amended by Statutory Rules 1955, No. 76.

1893/57.—Price 3d. 10/22.3.1957.

 

4. The Second Schedule to the Royal Military College Regulations is repealed and the following Schedule inserted in its stead:—

Second Schedule

Second Schedule.

Regulations 5 and 29

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED OF COMMONWEALTH CANDIDATES FOR NORMAL ENTRY

1. The educational qualifications required for admission to the College are, subject to paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of this Schedule, a “ pass” or higher qualification at the Leaving Certificate Examination (or its equivalent) held by a public examining authority or university in Australia—

(a) in the case of a candidate who has obtained his qualifications in an examination held in the State of Victoria—in English and four other subjects considered by the Selection Board to be suitable as pre-requisites for the College course; and

(b) in any other case—in English and three other subjects considered by the Selection Board to be suitable as pre-requisites to the College course.

2. At least three of the subjects must have been passed at the one examination and all the subjects must have been passed at not more than two examinations.

3. For the purpose of the last preceding paragraph, a supplementary examination shall be deemed to be a separate examination.

4. Where a candidate has not passed in a branch of Mathematics at Leaving Certificate standard, he shall not be deemed to have the educational qualifications required for admission to the College unless he satisfies the Selection Board that he has reached the Intermediate Standard (or its equivalent) in a subject or subjects which include Algebra, Geometry and Trigonometry.

5. After admission to the College, a cadet may be allocated to the General Science Course or the Science and Engineering Course if—

(a) at the Leaving Certificate examination (or equivalent other than the Tasmanian Schools Board Examination) held by a public examining authority or a university in Australia, he has obtained a “pass” or higher qualification in English and three other subjects, being subjects specified respectively in each of three of the following clauses:—

(i) Mathematics I. or Mathematics A;

(ii) Mathematics II. or Mathematics B;

(iii) Physics; and

(iv) Chemistry,

and has, in a fourth subject being a subject specified in the remaining clause, obtained a “pass” or higher qualification or reached a standard which the Commandant regards as satisfactory; or

(b) at the Tasmanian Schools Board Examination, he has obtained a “pass”, not being a “lower pass”, or higher qualification in English, Mathematics II., Mathematics III. and General Science A.

6. For the purpose of this Schedule, “public examining authority” includes a school approved to conduct Leaving Certificate, Senior Public or Matriculation examinations.

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.