STATUTORY RULES
1965 No. 117
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REGULATION UNDER THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910-1965.*
I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Naval Defence Act 1910-1965.
Dated this tenth day of August, 1965.
HENRY ABEL SMITH
Administrator.
By His Excellency’s Command,
F. CHANEY
Minister of State for the Navy.
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Amendment of the Naval Establishments Regulations†
Regulation 55a of the Naval Establishments Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—
Reduction from recreation leave on account of other absences.
“55a.—(1.) Where—
(a) an officer or employee has, in a prescribed period, been absent from duty on leave of absence without pay, other than on leave of absence without pay granted on account of illness, for more than twenty-six days; and
(b) the period during which the officer or employee was so absent does not form part of the officer’s or employee’s period of service for the purposes of the grant of recreation leave,
the period of leave of absence for recreation which may be granted to the officer or employee in respect of the next year after the expiration of that prescribed period shall be reduced by one-twelfth of the period of leave of absence that the officer or employee may be granted under regulation 55 of these Regulations for each twenty-six working days on which the officer or employee has been absent from duty during that prescribed period.
“(2.) Where an officer or employee has, in a prescribed period, been absent from duty on leave granted under regulation 56 or 58 of these Regulations for more than fifty-one working days, the period of leave of absence for recreation that may be granted to the officer or employee in respect of the next year after the expiration of that prescribed period shall, subject to this regulation, be reduced by one-twelfth of the period of leave of absence that may be granted to the officer or employee under regulation 55 of these Regulations for each twenty-six working days, other than the first twenty-six working days, on which the officer or employee has been absent from duty during that prescribed period.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1965.
† Statutory Rules 1936, No 107, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Naval Establishments Regulations see footnote † to Statutory Rules 1965, No. 62 and see also Statutory Rules 1965, Nos. 62 and
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“(3.) Sub-regulation (2.) of this regulation shall not operate in relation to the absence from duty of an officer or employee in a prescribed period by reason of his having been granted leave of absence under regulation 56 or 58 of these Regulations, so as to result in any reduction being made in the period of recreation leave that may be granted to the officer or employee in respect of the year next succeeding that prescribed period which would, when added to reductions previously made, exceed the period of recreation leave that may be granted to the officer or employee in that next succeeding year.
“(4.) Sub-regulation (2.) of this regulation shall not operate in relation to the absence from duty of an officer or employee in the prescribed period that commenced on the first day of January, 1965, by reason of his having been granted leave of absence under regulation 56 or 58 of these Regulations if a reduction in the period of the officer’s recreation leave has been made under regulation 55a of these Regulations as in force immediately before the commencement of this regulation in respect of that absence.
“(5.) For the purposes of this regulation, each of the following periods is a prescribed period—
(a) in the case of an officer or employee who has completed only one year of service—the first year of the officer’s or employee’s service;
(b) in the case of an officer or employee who has served until the thirty-first day of December next succeeding the day on which he completed his first year of service, but has not completed two years of service—the period that commenced on the day immediately after the officer completed his first year of service and ended on the next succeeding thirty-first day of December; and
(c) in any other case—the period of twelve months commencing on the first day of January in each year.”.
By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.