Universal Training Regulations (Amendment) (Provisional) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1915. No. 256.

 

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1914.

Regulations for Universal Training, Part V., Citizen Forces.—Amendment—Regulations 122, 131, 132, 133, and 139.

I,THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the following Regulations under the Defence Act 1903-1914 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulations to come into operation forthwith as Provisional Regulations.

Dated this twenty-second day of December, One thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE.

 

Regulations for Universal Training, Part V., Citizen Forces.

Amendments.

After Regulation 122 add new Regulation 122a:—

“122a. Every person liable to training under Part XII. of the Act, who, having been committed by a Court to the custody of any prescribed authority, and having been detained in any prescribed institution or place—

(a) Refuses or fails to comply with the Regulations or orders governing that institution or place; or

(b) Refuses to perform any drill, training, or other duty required of him; or

(c) Disobeys or neglects to obey the orders of any officer or soldier placed in authority over him;

shall be guilty of an offence, and shall, on conviction by a Court of Summary Jurisdiction, be liable to suffer one of the following penalties, namely:—

(a) Detention, that is to say, confinement in military detention rooms for a period not exceeding twenty days;

(b) Confinement in the custody of the prescribed authority for a further period not exceeding twenty days.”

Regulation 131—

Regulation 131 is cancelled and the following substituted therefor:—

“131. Sufficient Lieutenants may be appointed annually to maintain the total number of officers required by the authorized War Establishment of each unit.”

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Regulation 132—

Paragraph (1) is cancelled and the following substituted therefor:—

“(1) Promotion to the rank of Lieutenant will be made from the most successful candidates at the competitive examinations for promotion. Sergeants, Lance-Sergeants, and all Non-commissioned Officers above that rank, and Warrant Officers and Officers of Senior Cadets who are eligible under Defence Act, section 62 (7), shall be eligible to compete for promotion to rank of Lieutenant.”

Paragraph (7) is cancelled and the following substituted therefor:—

“(7) Examination for the rank of Lieutenant and Captain shall be practical and, as far as possible, oral. The only written work to be demanded of candidates shall be such as they have to carry out in the duties of the rank for which they are being tested.”

Paragraph (11) is cancelled.

Regulation 133—

Regulation 133 is cancelled and the following substituted therefor:—

“133. In each of the following units, that is to say:—

A Regiment of Light Horse,

The Field Artillery in a Military District,

The Garrison Artillery of a Fortress or Defended Port,

Each branch of the Engineers in any Military District,

A Battalion of Infantry,

The Army Service Corps in any Military District,

The Army Medical Corps in any Military District,

Each Departmental Corps in any Military District,

there shall be kept a seniority list of all the officers of the unit, and vacancies for promotion will be filled by those within the unit, if qualified; but in the case of Squadrons, Companies, or other similar parts of a unit, which are detached at some distance from the rest of their Regiment or Corps, promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, Captain, and Major will be limited to vacancies in the Squadron, Company, or other similar part of a unit.”

Regulation 139—

Paragraph (1) is cancelled and the following substituted therefor:—

“(l) The maximum terms during which officers will be permitted to serve in units of the Citizen Forces shall be as follows:—

In the rank of Lieutenant...........................................................	8 years
Up to the rank of Captain..........................................................	12 years
Up to the rank of Major.............................................................	15 years
Up to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.........................................	20 years

Provided that, on the recommendation of a District Commandant an officer may at any time be transferred to the Unattached List or to the Reserve of Officers, if considered necessary in the interests of the service.”

The following new paragraph is added:—

“(5) The period during which any officer on the active list of the Citizen Forces has held the rank of Second Lieutenant will be counted as service as Lieutenant for the purposes of this Regulation.”

 

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