STATUTORY RULES
1966 No. 31
REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910-1965.*
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 1910-1965.
Dated this third day of February, 1966.
CASEY
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
F. CHANEY
Minister of State for the Navy.
Amendments of the Naval Financial Regulations†
Parts.
1. Regulation 3 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by omitting the words—
“Division 4.—Annual Allowances, Grants, Retainers, Training Fees, Gratuities and Bounties (Regulations 283-291).”
and inserting in their stead the words—
“Division 4.—Annual Allowances, Grants, Retainers, Training Fees, Gratuities and Bounties (Regulations 283-291A).”.
Officers’ general list—active pay.
2. Regulation 9 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended—
(a) by inserting after sub-regulation (1.) the following sub-regulation:—
“(1A.)Where the Naval Board so approves, the daily rate of active pay payable to an officer of the Special Duties List holding the rank of Lieutenant and having not less than eight years’ pay seniority in that rank is an amount equal to the sum of the daily rate of active pay specified in Division 2 of the Third Schedule to these Regulations in relation to a Lieutenant (S.D.) with not less than seven years’ pay seniority and—
(a) if he has less than ten years’ pay seniority in that rank—Five shillings;
(b) if he has not less than ten years’ pay seniority but less than fourteen years’ pay seniority in that rank—Ten shillings; or
(c) if he has not less than fourteen years’ pay seniority in that rank—Fifteen shillings.”; and
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1966.
† Statutory Rules 1956, No. 88, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Naval Financial Regulations, see Statutory Rules 1965, No. 46, and see also Statutory Rules 1965, Nos. 46, 70 and 74.
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(b) by omitting paragraph (a)of sub-regulation (2.) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—
“(a) the daily rate of active pay payable to the officer in accordance with the preceding sub-regulations of this regulation; or”.
Retention of lodgings allowance.
3. Regulation 94 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (2.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—
“(2.) Where a member—
(a) is accommodated in hospital, or lives in for service reasons, for a period;
(b) was in receipt of living out allowance under regulation 92 of these Regulations immediately before the commencement of the period; and
(c) pays for the retention of his lodgings during the period,
retention of lodgings allowance is payable to the member in respect of the period or 30 consecutive days, whichever is the less.”.
4. Regulation 267 of the Naval Financial Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—
Active pay—general provisions.
“267.—(1.) This regulation applies to and in relation to continuous full time naval service of a member, being service—
(a) that is not rendered under sub-section (3.) or (7.) of section 32 of the Act or under section 50b of the Defence Act 1903–1965; and
(b) that is not rendered in a vacancy in the establishment of the Permanent Naval Forces.
“(2.) The rate of active pay of an officer in respect of service to which this regulation applies is the rate specified, in relation to the rank that the officer holds, in whichever Part of Table 1 in the Seventeenth Schedule to these Regulations is applicable to the officer.
“(3.) The rate of active pay of a chaplain of the Citizen Naval Forces in respect of service to which this regulation applies is the rate specified in Table 2 in the Seventeenth Schedule to these Regulations.
“(4.) The rate of active pay of a man in respect of service to which this regulation applies is the rate specified in Table 3 in the Seventeenth Schedule to these Regulations in relation to the rating that the man holds and the branch in which the man is included.
“(5.) The daily rate of active pay payable to a man in accordance with the last preceding sub-regulation is, by virtue of this sub-regulation, increased by Four shillings.”.
5.—(1.) Regulation 284 of the Naval Financial Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—
Efficiency grant.
“284. A member of the Royal Australian Naval Reserve may, in such circumstances as the Naval Board determines, be paid an efficiency grant of such amount or at such rate as the Naval Board determines.”.
(2.) Where circumstances determined by the Naval Board to be circumstances in which the grant provided for by regulation 284 of the Naval Financial Regulations as amended by these Regulations is to be payable relate to a period of service in the Royal Australian Naval Reserve, that period may be a period commencing on or after the first day of July, 1963.
6. After regulation 291 of the Naval Financial Regulations the following regulation is inserted in Division 4 of Part XVI.:—
Gratuity in respect of continuous full time naval service.
“219a.—A gratuity is payable to a member of the Citizen Naval Forces who renders, under sub-section (3.) of section 32a of the Act, continuous full time naval service for a period of not less than 1 year and serves during the whole of that period in a vacancy in the establishment of the Permanent Naval Forces at the rate of—
(a) if the member is an officer—Fifty pounds per annum; or
(b) in any other case—Twenty pounds per annum.
“(2.) The last preceding sub-regulation applies to a member of the Citizen Naval Forces who renders continuous full time naval service on or after the ninth day of September, 1965.”.
Second Schedule.
7. The Second Schedule to the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by omitting the word and figures—
“Regulation 269.”
and inserting in their stead the words and figures—
“Sub-regulation (3.) of regulation 264.
Sub-regulation (2.) of regulation 270.
Regulation 275.
Sub-regulation (2.) of regulation 277.
Regulation 284.
Regulation 285.
Regulation 286.
Sub-regulations (1.) and (2.) of regulation 290.
Regulation 293.
Sub-regulations (3.) and (5.) of regulation 295.”.
By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.