War Service Homes (Staff) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1944. No. 147.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR SERVICE HOMES ACT 1918-1941.*

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the War Service Homes Act 1918-1941.

Dated this fourth day of October, 1944.

W. DUGAN

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Repatriation.

 

Amendments of War Service Homes (Staff) Regulations. 

Recreation leave.

1. Regulation 50 of the War Service Homes (Staff) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:—

“(5.) Notwithstanding anything contained in this regulation, recreation leave for which an officer was or becomes eligible on or after the third day of September, 1939, may be granted at any time not later than twelve months after the date upon which His Majesty ceases to be engaged in war, in any case where the Commissioner certifies that, owing to circumstances attributable to the war, it was not previously practicable to grant that leave.

“(6.) If an officer eligible for recreation leave dies, and the Commissioner is satisfied that he had not been granted the leave for which he was eligible on account of circumstances attributable to the war which commenced in the year One thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine, the Commissioner may authorize payment to the dependants of the officer of a sum equivalent to the amount of remuneration which he would have received in respect of the period of such leave, excluding any

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1944.

  Statutory Rules 1938, No. 64, as amended by Statutory Rules 1939, Nos. 32 and 136; 1940, Nos. 47 and 274; 1941, Nos. 142, 162, 183 and 264; 1942, Nos. 226 and 463; 1943, No. 238; and 1944, No. 98.

5859.—Price 3d. 10/19.9.1944.

portion of the leave accruing in the calendar year of the officer’s death, had he been granted the leave immediately prior to the date of his death.”.

Basis of computation of sick leave.

2.Regulation 60 of the War Service Homes (Staff) Regulations is amended by adding, after the second proviso to paragraph (a), the following proviso:—

“Provided also that, where an officer who has served in the Forces during the continuance of the war which commenced in the year One thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine is granted sick leave owing to illness or injury arising out of his war service, any such leave granted within three years following his resumption of duty upon discharge from the Forces shall not be deducted from his sick leave credit.”.

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.