Naval Establishments Regulations (Amendment)

STATUTORY RULES.

1963. No. 32.

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 eleventh

day of April, 1963.

DE L'ISLE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

Sgd. J. G. Gorton

Minister of State for the Navy.

Amendments of the Naval Establishments Regulations.†

Rates of pay and increments.

1. Regulation 43 of the Naval Establishments Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting items 2, 10, 11, 15, 16, 35, 38, 40, 41, 68, 69 and 106 from the table in sub-regulation (1.);

(b) by omitting items 18, 19, 20 and 21 from the table in sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in their stead the following items:—

(c) by omitting item 34 from the table in sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following item:—

(d) by omitting item 43 from the table in sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following item:—

(e) by inserting after item 162 in the table in sub-regulation (1.) the following item:—

and

(f) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

" (8.) Where a female officer or employee who has attained the age of twenty-one years occupies a position (other than a position the designation of which includes the word 'Female'), she shall be paid salary at an annual rate that is £154 less than the rate otherwise applicable under the preceding provisions of this regulation.".

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 24th April, 1963

† Statutory Rules 1936, No. 107, as amended by Statutory Rules 1937, Nos. 16, 52 and 63; 1938, No. 16; 1939, Nos. 3, 19 and 85; 1940, No. 196; 1941, Nos. 58 and 144; 1942, Nos. 118, 181 and 414; 1944, Nos. 97, 142 and 183; 1947, Nos. 136 and 139; 1948, No. 42; 1949, No. 64; 1951, Nos. 76, 87, 93 and 140; 1953, Nos. 14 and 95; 1954, No. 31; 1955, Nos. 12 and 46; 1956, Nos. 87 and 132; 1957, No. 31; 1958, Nos. 46 and 55; 1959, No. 79; 1961, Nos. 30, 32 and 91; and 1962, Nos. 17 and 98.

11397/62.—Price 3d. 10/22.3.1963.

Cost of conveyance on transfer.

2. Regulation 72 of the Naval Establishments Regulations is amended by inserting at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

" (2.) Where an officer or employee who is compulsorily transferred to Canberra—

(a) occupies, in Canberra, a house or flat under a tenancy agreement with the Commonwealth; and

(b) within two years after his transfer occupies, in Canberra, a house that he has built or purchased,

the cost of removing the furniture and household effects from the house or flat referred to in paragraph (a) of this sub-regulation to the house referred to in paragraph (b) of this sub-regulation shall, subject to regulation 73 of these Regulations, be paid by the Department.".

3. After regulation 72 of the Naval Establishments Regulations the following regulations are inserted:—

Removal expenses from Canberra.

" 72a.—(1.) In the case of an officer or employee who, at the date of his compulsory transfer to Canberra, has reached the age of sixty years and who retires or is retired from the Department within five years from that date, there shall be payable to the officer or employee the cost of the conveyance of himself and his family, together with furniture and household effects to the place to which he desires to proceed, but not exceeding in any event the cost of the conveyance of the officer or employee and his family, together with furniture and effects, between Canberra and his former home station.

" (2.) In the event of the death of such an officer or employee within five years of the date of his transfer, the cost of conveyance of his dependants, with furniture and household effects, as provided by the preceding sub-regulation, may be paid by the Department.

Payment of removal expenses on death or retirement of officer.

" 72b.—(1.) Where the family of a deceased person who was an officer or employee resided with him in the locality in which, immediately before his death or retirement, he performed his duties, the Naval Board may, if it thinks fit after having regard to—

(a) the circumstances in which he was appointed, transferred or promoted to that locality;

(b) the nature of the locality;

(c) the time spent by him and his family in that locality; and

(d) any other matters that the Naval Board considers relevant,

authorize the payment to his widow or to a member of his family of the whole or such part as the Naval Board thinks fit of the expenses incurred in the conveyance of herself and her family (if any) or the member of the family and any other members of the family, as the case may be, and of the furniture and household effects of the family from that locality to another place.

"(2.) Where an officer or employee retires or is retired from the Department and his family resided with him in the locality in which immediately before his retirement, he performed his duties, the Naval Board may, if it thinks fit after having regard to—

(a) the circumstances in which he was appointed, transferred or promoted to that locality;

(b) the nature of the locality;

(c) the time spent by him and his family in that locality; and

(d) any other matters that the Naval Board considers relevant,

authorize the payment to him of the whole or such part as the Naval Board sees fit, of the expenses incurred in the conveyance of him and his family (if any) and his furniture and household effects from that locality to the nearest capital city or to such other place as the Naval Board, in any particular case, determines.

"(3.) For the purposes of sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation, an officer or employee who died while on temporary transfer from one locality to another locality shall, if his family continue to reside in the first-mentioned locality, be deemed to have been performing his duties in the first-mentioned locality.".

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.