STATUTORY RULES.
1955 No. 12.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910-1952.*
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 1910-1952.
Dated this fifteenth day of February, 1955.
W. J. SLIM
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister of State for the Navy.
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Amendments of the Naval Establishments Regulations. †
Commencement.
1.. These Regulations shall he doomed to have come into operation on the first day of January, 1951.
Furlough.
2. Regulation 56 of the Naval Establishments Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting sub-regulation (1. ) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulations:—
“(1.) The Naval Board may grant to an officer whose period of continuous service under those Regulations is not loss than twenty years, leave of absence for a period not exceeding three-tenths of one month on full salary, or three-fifths of one month on half salary, in respect of each year of the continuous service.
“(1a.) An officer shall not be granted leave of absence under this regulation for a period exceeding twelve months at any one time”.
(b) by adding at the end of paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (4) the word “and”; and
(c) by omitting paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (4).
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette , 1955.
† Statutory Rules 1936, No. 107, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Naval Establishments Regulations see footnote † to Statutory Rules 1954, No, 31.
4987.—Price 3d. 8/1.11.1954.
3. Regulation 58 of the Naval Establishments Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—
Furlough to person employed prior to 26th November, 1924.
“58.—(1.) A. person (other than an officer)—
(a) who was employed prior to the twenty-sixth day of November, One thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, in pursuance of sub-section (1.) of section 41 of the Naval Defence Act 1910, as amended; and
(b) who has been continuously so employed since that date,
is eligible for the grant of furlough under the conditions prescribed for an officer in regulation 56 of these Regulations.
“(2.) In the event of the death of such a person, payment may be made to his dependants under the conditions proscribed for an officer in regulation 56 of those Regulations.”.
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