STATUTORY RULES.
1905. No. 16.
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PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACTS 1903–1904.
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 Acts 1903-1904 should come into immediate operation, and should be taken to have come into operation as from the 1st January, 1905, inclusive, and make the Regulations to come into operation accordingly, as Provisional Regulations.
Dated this 24th day of February, One thousand nine hundred and five.
NORTHCOTE,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
J. W. McCAY.
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Financial and Allowance Regulations for the Military Forces of the Commonwealth, 1904.
Part VI.—Allowances.
Section II.
Cancel the heading “Special Duty Pay for Militia Officers,” and insert in lieu thereof the heading “Allowance to Militia Officers when employed on Special Duty.”
After paragraph 123 insert the following paragraph:—
123a. When an Officer of the Citizen Forces is appointed by the Governor-General in Council to act as Commandant of a State, he may be paid an allowance equal to five-eighths of the militia rate of pay of his rank for every day he is so acting, provided that there is money available on the vote for the salary of the Commandant out of which such allowance could be paid.
By Authority: Robt. S. Brain, Government Printer, Melbourne.
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