STATUTORY RULES.
1962. No. 96.
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 twenty-second day of October, 1962.
DE L’ISLE
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister of State for the Navy.
Amendments of the Naval Financial Regulations.†
Alteration of officer’s uniform on promotion, &c., or reversion in rank.
1. Regulation 172 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—
“(1.) Where necessary alterations are made to the uniform of an officer, including an officer in receipt of a consolidated rate of pay, on his promotion to a higher rank, on his being granted an acting higher rank, on his reversion to a lower rank or in such other circumstances as the Naval Board determines, he shall be paid, in respect of the expense incurred by him because of those alterations, an allowance of an amount calculated in accordance with such method as the Naval Board determines.”.
2. Regulation 173 of the Naval Financial Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—
Officer appointed, &c., outside Australia Naval Station.
“173. Where—
(a) a person is appointed an officer;
(b) an officer (including an officer in receipt of a consolidated rate of pay) is promoted, is granted an acting higher rank or is reverted to a lower rank; or
(c) an officer (including an officer in receipt of a consolidated rate of pay) becomes entitled to payment of an allowance under sub-regulation (1.) of the last preceding regulation in circumstances determined by the Naval Board under that sub-regulation,
while serving outside the Australia Naval Station and the amount necessarily expended by him in the procurement of necessary articles of uniform kit or on account of alterations of his uniform because of that appointment,
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 25th October, 1962.
† Statutory Rules 1956, No. 88, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Naval Financial Regulations, see footnote † to Statutory Rules 1962, No. 10, and see also Statutory Rules 1962, Nos. 10, 19, 22 and 32.
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promotion, grant of acting higher rank or reversion or of those circumstances exceeds the amount of the allowance payable to him under regulation 171 or 172 of these Regulations, he may, subject to the approval of the Naval Board, be reimbursed the amount of the excess.”.
3. Regulation 262a of the Naval Financial Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—
Interpretation.
“262a.—(1.) In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears—
‘diver’ means a member who has the qualifications approved by the Naval Board as the qualifications that a member must possess before he is classified as a diver;
‘member’ means a member of the Papua and New Guinea Division of the Royal Australian Navy.
“(2.) In this Part unless the contrary intention appears, the terms ‘commanding officer’, ‘departmental’, ‘rating’ and ‘supply officer’ have, in relation to a member, the same respective meanings as those terms have, in relation to other members of the Permanent Naval Forces, under regulation 4 of these Regulations.”.
4.—(1.) After regulation 262h of the Naval Financial Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—
Diving pay.
“262ha.—(1.) Subject to the succeeding provisions of this regulation, an allowance, called ‘diving pay’, is payable to a diver, in respect of the time during which, while using diving apparatus, he is under water or under compression in the course of a diving operation authorized by the commanding officer, at the rate specified, according to the depth of the diving operation, in the table in sub-regulation (3.) of regulation 117 of these Regulations.
“(2.) For the purposes of the last preceding sub-regulation, all time from the time at which the diver enters the water or goes under compression to the time at which he emerges from the water or ceases to be under compression, including any time during which he is under decompression, shall be regarded as time under water at the greatest depth reached in the course of the diving operation.
“(3.) When a diver attends another diver during a diving operation, the attendant shall be paid—
(a) diving pay of an amount equal to one-fifth of the amount of diving pay paid to the diver, calculated to the nearest penny; or
(b) if the attendant is employed in a decompression or recompression chamber—diving pay at a rate equal to the rate of diving pay payable to the diver.
“(4.) Where a diver who is under water or under compression, or is an attendant on another diver, in the course of a diving operation authorized by the commanding officer is under the direct supervision of another diver or of a clearance diver within the meaning of regulation 117 of these Regulations, he shall be paid one-half of the amount that, but for the provisions of this sub-regulation, would be payable to him under the preceding provisions of this regulation.
“(5.) If, in the opinion of the commanding officer, any work performed by a diver in the course of a diving operation has been performed unsatisfactorily, the whole or any portion of the diving pay payable under the preceding provisions of this regulation to that diver in respect of that diving operation may be disallowed by the commanding officer.”.
(2.) Diving allowance is payable in accordance with the provisions of the regulation inserted in the Naval Financial Regulations by the last preceding sub-regulation in respect of diving operations performed on or after the nineteenth day of January, 1962.
By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.