War Financial Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1918. No. 333.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903–1918.

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 1903–1918, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this eighteenth day of December, 1918.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

 

Amendment of War Financial Regulations.

War Financial Regulations are amended as follows:—

(1) Regulation 7 is amended by adding the following words:—

“Provided that Chaplains promoted to the rank of Chaplain, 2nd Class, after four years’ satisfactory service, may be paid at the rates prescribed for a Major in the Australian Imperial Force, from the date of such promotion.”

(2) Regulation 22 is amended by deleting the words:—

“and provided further that the subsistence allowance for a Private while in France shall be 4s. per diem”

and inserting in lieu thereof the following paragraph:—

“The subsistence allowance for a Private in France shall be 4s. per diem, but members of the Australian Imperial Force who are stationed in Paris may be paid an allowance in lieu of quarters and rations at the rate of 11 francs per diem.”

To take effect as from 1st December, 1917.

(3) Regulation 56a is amended by deleting the word “State” wherever occurring: To take effect as from 1st September, 1916.

 

Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by H. J. Green, Acting Government Printer for the State of Victoria.