STATUTORY RULES.
1917. No. 205.
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REGULATION UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1915.
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Defence Act 1903-1915 to come into operation forthwith.
Dated this 22nd day of August, 1917.
R. M. FERGUSON.
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command.
G. F. PEARCE.
Minister of State for Defence.
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Regulation 825 of the Australian Military Regulations dated 28th July, 1916 (Statutory Rules 1916 No. 166) is repealed and the following new Regulation substituted in lieu thereof: —
825. (1) It is provided by Section 133 of the Act that—
“At the termination of each annual training in the Senior Cadets and Citizen Forces, each member shall be classified by the officer appointed in that behalf as ‘efficient’ or ‘non-efficient.’ Those who are classified as non-efficient, either for failure to attend during the prescribed period, or because they have not attained a sufficient standard of efficiency, shall be required to attend an equivalent additional training for each year in which they are non-efficient.”
(2) Members of the Senior Cadets or the Citizen Forces liable for training under Part XII. of the Act who at the termination of any year of training have been classified as “non-efficient” owing to failure to attend during the prescribed period may attend in subsequent years in addition to the annual training for such years additional training equivalent to the training in which they are deficient for the year for which they have been classified “non-efficient”, and after the performance of such additional equivalent training the Board appointed to determine the efficiency for the current year shall consider such additional training and may then classify such persons as “efficient” for the year for which they had been classified as “non-efficient” and the officer appointed under Section 133 of the Act may enter such classification in the authorized form: provided however that no person shall so be classified as “efficient” who failed to attend the prescribed period of continuous training during the year for which he was classified “non-efficient” except he shall have attended additional continuous training equivalent to any continuous training which he failed to attend. Commanding officers will be responsible for insuring that the necessary arrangements are made for full opportunity being given to members of their command to attend the additional equivalent training.
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(3) In cases where members of the Senior Cadets or Citizen Forces have at the termination of any year of training been classified as “non-efficient” through failure to attain a sufficient standard of efficiency, but have attended for the prescribed period of that year, and have been classified as “efficient” for a year subsequent to that year, the Board appointed to determine efficiency may at the line of the latter classification classify such persons as “efficient” for the previous year or years for which they have been classified as “non-efficient” provided that the standard of efficiency of the latest year shall be equal to the standard required from persons who have served the same number of years that those whose cases are under consideration have served, and the officer appointed under Section 133 of the Act may enter such classification in the prescribed form.
(4) Members of the Citizen Forces shall not be subsequently classified “efficient” as in paragraphs 2 and 3 above unless they shall have completed the prescribed musketry course for the year for which they were originally classified as “non-efficient” should such year have been during the period of training in the Citizen Forces
(5) Persons liable for training under Part XII. of the Act who have, at the termination of any year of training, been classified as “non-efficient” and have not subsequently been classified as “efficient”, will on reaching the year in which they attain the age of 25 years be required to undergo as many additional annual trainings as the number of entries of “non-efficient” then recorded against them together with such further similar entries as may be recorded after such additional trainings.
(6) Paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of this Regulation will take effect as from the 1st July 1912.
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