STATUTORY RULES
1927. No. 137.
regulations under the naval defence act 1910-1918.
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 Naval Defence Act 1910-1918, to come into operation forthwith.
Dated this twenty-third day of November, 1927.
STONEHAVEN
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
A. J. Mclachlan
for Minister of State of Defence
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Amendment of Naval Establishments Regulations.
(Statutory Rules 1926, No. 107.)
(First Amendment.)
1. Regulation 4 is amended by inserting after the word “ship” in the last line of sub-paragraph (b) of the definition of “Returned Soldier” the word “of”.
2. Regulation 25 is amended by omitting the word “section” wherever appearing in sub-regulations (2), (3), (5), (6), (7), (8) and (9) respectively, and inserting in its stead the word “regulation”.
3. Regulation 74, sub-regulation (1), is amended by omitting “otherwise” and inserting in its stead the word “otherwise”.
4. Regulation 77, sub-regulation (3) is amended as follows:—
“per day”
(1) by omitting the heading s. s. in the second column of the scale, and inserting in its stead the heading “per day”
s. d.
(2) by omitting the words “one hundred and sixty-eight” in the column headed “Hourly Rate” and inserting in their stead the words “one hundred and sixty-eighth”.
5. Regulation 85 is amended by omitting the words “Yard, Sydney” and inserting in their stead the word “Establishments”.
6. Regulation 87 is amended by omitting sub-regulation (2) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulations:—
“(2) In a year when the entrance examination is held after 30th June, he must not have been less than thirteen years of age nor have attained the age of sixteen years on the 31st March of that year.
(2a) In a year when the entrance examination is held on or before the 30th June, he must not have been less than fourteen years of age nor have attained the age of seventeen years on the 31st March of that year.”
1133.—Price 3d.
7. Regulation 92 is amended as follows:—
(1) by adding at the end of sub-regulation (1) the words—
“provided that any time served as apprentice in the employment of a private Establishment, by an apprentice entered under the provisions of regulation 90 may, for the purposes of this sub-regulation, he deducted from the period of apprenticeship herein prescribed.”
(2) by omitting sub-regulation (3) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—
“(3) There shall be kept a record of all time lost by an apprentice,
(a) owing to absence without leave, and
(b) through illness or other absence with approval in excess of fourteen days in any one year,
and such time shall be added to the term of apprenticeship, of which the calendar period of the succeeding year shall not be deemed to begin until the said additional period shall have been served, provided that in exceptional circumstances the Officer-in-Charge may approve of such lost time not being so added”; and
(3) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—
“(4) In any case whore the period of apprenticeship shall not have been completed prior to the date on which the apprentice attains the age of twenty-one years, the apprentice shall nevertheless continue to serve his apprenticeship under the conditions of his agreement and the provisions of those Regulations until such time as the prescribed period of apprenticeship shall have been completed.”
8. Regulation 96, sub-regulation (2) is amended by omitting the amount “25s.” and inserting in its stead the amount “£2”.
9. Regulation 98 is repealed and the following regulation is inserted in its stead:—
“98. (1) An apprentice who is obliged to live away from his home on account of its inaccessibility or distance from his place of employment may, with the approval of the Officer-in-Charge, be granted an allowance such as will raise his total wages to £2 1s. per week.
(2) In special circumstances and with the approval of the Naval Board, on apprentice who is required to live away from his home under the conditions prescribed in the last preceding sub-regulation may be granted such additional allowance as the Officer-in-Charge may consider is warranted, but not so as to increase his total wages to more than £2 10s. per week.”
10. After regulation 100, the following regulation is inserted:—
“100a. Time lost by an apprentice on account of illness shall be without pay, provided that, where the Award which governs the conditions of his employment provides for the granting of sick leave with pay, the apprentice shall be entitled to receive pay during illness, for such period and under such conditions as are prescribed in the award aforementioned.”
11. Appendix “A” is amended as follows:—
(1) by inserting in the last line of paragraph 1 after the word “computed” the words “save as hereinafter provided”,
(2) by adding at the end of paragraph 1 the following:—
“And the apprentice doth hereby agree with the Master to continue to serve as aforesaid notwithstanding that the apprentice may be unable to complete the said term of five years’ service before reaching the age of twenty-one years. And the apprentice at the end of the calendar period of any year in which he has actually given service to the Master upon less than the ordinary working days of the Naval Establishments or in which he has voluntarily absented himself without the consent of the Master, doth hereby agree to serve one day for every day short of the paid number of working days (less fourteen days), and in the second case for every day of such absence, if the Master shall so order; add the calendar period of the succeeding year of the apprentice’s service shall not be deemed to begin until the said additional days shall have been served.”
(3) by inserting in the seventh line of paragraph 2 after the word “apprentices” the words “and will attend a Trade Course at a State Technical School as and when required by the said Rules and Regulations”.
(4) by omitting from paragraph 2 the words “nor contract marriage during the period of this Agreement”.
(5) by inserting in the seventh line of paragraph 4 after the word “advantages” the words “subject to the proviso hereinafter contained in this paragraph”.
(6) by adding at the end of paragraph 4 the following:—
“Provided that the Master may deduct from the wages payable to the apprentice amounts proportionate to working time lost by the apprentice in any year owing to his absence from the Master’s service otherwise than is provided in the appropriate Award and the said Rules and Regulations”.
(7) by inserting after paragraph 5 the following paragraph:—
“6. This agreement may be terminated by mutual consent or by one calendar month’s notice on either side or one calendar month’s pay in lieu thereof from the Master and the apprentice may be dismissed without notice in the event of his being guilty of misconduct.”
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By Authority: H. J. Green, Government Printer, Canberra.