STATUTORY RULES.
1943. No. 243
REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903–1941.*
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 1903–1941.
Dated this twenty-ninth day of September, 1943.
(SGD.) GOWRIE
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister of State for the Army.
Amendments of the Military Forces (Women’s Services) Regulations. †
Authority to command and subordination of members—A.A.N.S.
1. Regulation 12 of the Military Forces (Women’s Services) Regulations is amended by inserting in sub-regulation (3.), after the words “command of”, the word “medical”.
Authority to command and subordination of members—A.A.M.W.S.
2. Regulation 21 of the Military Forces (Women’s Services) Regulations is amended—
(a) by inserting in sub-regulation (2.), after the words “command of”, the word “medical”; and
(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—
“(3.) Subject to the last preceding sub-regulation, where an officer of the Australian Army Medical Corps, and an officer of the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service are performing similar duties, they shall, as between themselves in matters connected with those duties, exercise command in accordance with their respective ranks, or, if equal in rank, in accordance with their Army seniority.”.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1943.
† Statutory Rules 1943, No. 68.
By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.
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