War Financial Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1918. No. 121.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1917.

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 1903-1917 to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this fifteenth day of May, 1918.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

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Amendment of War Financial Regulations.

War Financial Regulations are amended as follows:—

Regulation 2 is amended by adding thereto the following words:—

“Deferred pay shall not be payable until the services of a member of the Australian Imperial Force are terminated.”

Regulation 14a is repealed and the following regulation made in lieu thereof:—

“14a. A member of the Australian Imperial Force found to have made a false answer on attestation as to his age who is discharged in consequence of such statement shall forfeit all pay not drawn by him at the date on which the Commandant, Administrative Head-Quarters, or the Officer Commanding the Anzac Mounted Divisional Base, as the case may be, is notified of the intention to return the member to Australia.

All pay that thereafter daily accrues to the member to date of discharge shall also be forfeited provided that:—

(a)A member whose gross rate of pay (including deferred pay) does not exceed 7s. per diem may be paid at the rate of 1s. per diem.

(b) A member whose gross rate of pay (including deferred pay) exceeds 7s. per diem may be paid at the rate of 1s. 6d. per diem.

(c) Where the member concerned has made an allotment from his pay in favour of a dependant, payment of allotment at the compulsory rate for a private together with Separation Allowance may be paid to such dependant and shall not be recovered from the member concerned.

Such payments are approved as a charge against the public.

This regulation shall not apply to members of the Australian Imperial Force who have joined their units in the field, and this paragraph is retrospective in its application, to members of the Australian Imperial Force, who have been discharged prior to the date of promulgation of this regulation.”

To have effect as from 1st May, 1918.

  

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