STATUTORY RULES
1965 No. 159
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT
1963-1965.*
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 1903-1965.
Dated
this fourth day of November, 1965.
CASEY
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister
of State for the Army.
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Amendments of the Royal Military College Regulations
Parts.
1. Regulation 3 of the
Royal Military College Regulations is amended by omitting the words—
“Part
IX.—Leave of Absence. (Regulation 44.)”
and
inserting in their stead the words—
“Part
IX.—Leave of Absence. (Regulations 44-44b.)”.
Definitions.
2. Regulation 4 of the
Royal Military College Regulations is amended by omitting the definition of “Formation,
&., Commander” and inserting in its stead the following definition:—
“‘Medical
Officer’ means an officer of the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps who is or
has been a person registered as a medical practitioner under a law of a State
or Territory that provides for the registration of medical practitioners;”.
Conditions
of eligibility of Commonwealth candidates.
3. Regulation 5 of the
Royal Military College Regulations is amended by inserting in paragraph (d) of sub-regulation (1.), after the
words “Military Board determines”, the words “or has such other educational
qualifications as will, in the opinion of the Commandant after considering the
advice of the Professors of the College, enable the cadet to undergo
instruction at the College”.
Documents
to be furnished by Commonwealth candidates.
4. Regulation 7 of the
Royal Military College Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (3.) the words “his
Formation, &c., Commander” and inserting in their stead the words “the
Commander of the Command, Military District, Army, Corps, Division, Task Force
or other part of the Military Forces declared by the Military Board to be a
formation for the purposes of the Australian Military Regulations in which he
is serving”.
*
Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on
11 November, 1965
Statutory Rules 1951, No. 40, as amended by Statutory Rules 1955, No. 76; 1957 No. 42; 1958, No. 84; 1960, Nos. 13 and 55; 1961,
Nos. 40 and 101; 1962, No. 53; 1963, No 146;
1964, No 111;
9264/65.—Price 6d.
(5c) 10/28.9.1965
Organization
of course.
5. Regulation 29 of the
Royal Military College Regulations is amended by omitting form paragraph (a) of sub-section (6.) the words “for
such a cadet in relation to that course” and inserting in their stead the words
“or such other educational qualifications as will, in the opinion of the
Commandant after considering the advice of the Professors of the College,
enable the cadet to undergo that course”.
6. After regulation 44 of
the Royal Military College Regulations the following regulations are inserted
in Part IX.:—
Sick
leave.
“44a.
The Commandant may, upon the recommendation in writing of a medical officer,
grant to a cadet who is sick leave of absence, called ‘sick leave’.
Emergency
leave.
“44b.—(1.)
Subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, where the Commandant is
satisfied that, because of the death or serious illness of, or injury to, a
parent or relative of a cadet or for any other special reason, it is desirable
to do so, he may grant the cadet leave of absence, called ‘emergency leave’.
“(2.) Emergency leave shall not be
granted to a cadet for a reason related to the cadet engaging in civilian
employment.”.
By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer,
Canberra.