STATUTORY RULES.
1915. No. 125.
PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1915.
Financial and Allowance Regulations for the Military Forces of the Commonwealth—Regulations 62, 73, and 196—Amendment.
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 Act 1903-1915 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulations to coms into operation accordingly as Provisional Regulations.
Dated this twenty-first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and fifteen.
R. M. FERGUSON,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
G. F. PEARCE.
Financial and Allowance Regulations for the Military Forces of the Commonwealth.
Amendments.
Regulation 62 is cancelled, and the following substituted therefor:—
“62. All persons whose pay is governed by these Regulations shall on promotion to a rank or position carrying a higher rate or improved conditions of pay draw such pay from the date of promotion provided that if the duties of the higher rank or position are not taken up within one month from the date of promotion the higher rate of pay shall only be drawn from the date of actually taking up duty or from such date as the Minister may direct.”
Regulation 73.—Add at the end of sub-paragraph (f) the following:—
“The foregoing shall also apply to a soldier on the married establishment stationed at Thursday Island or Townsville who is separated from his wife and family for satisfactory reasons other than the ill-health of his wife, with the exception that, in lieu, of a medical certificate, the approval of the Minister must first be obtained.”
C.8801.—Price 3d.