Naval Financial Regulations (Amendment)

STATUTORY RULES.

1962. No. 107.

REGULATIONS UNDER, THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910-1952.*

I, THE Administrator of the Government of 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  thirtieth

day of  November , 1962.

DALLAS BROOKS.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

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 1.—Officers other than Cadet Midshipmen (Regulations 9-27).

“Division 2.—Cadet Midshipmen (Regulations 28-30).”

and inserting in their stead the words—

“Division 1.—Officers, including Cadet Midshipmen appointed under the Upper Yardman Training Scheme (Regulations 9-27).

“Division 2.—Other Cadet Midshipmen (Regulations 28-30).”.

Interpretation.

2. Regulation 4 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting in sub-regulation (1.), before the definition of

“Apprentice”, the following definition:—

“‘Aircrew Training Scheme’ means the scheme, known as the Aircrew Training Scheme, approved by the Naval Board for the training of members of the Permanent Naval Forces as pilots or observers;”;

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the definition of “Observer Training Scheme”; and

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 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, 32 and

5299/62.—Price 3d. 9/5.11.1962.

(c) by adding at the end of sub-regulation (1.) the following definition:—

“‘Upper Yardman Training Scheme’ means the scheme, known as the Upper Yardman Training Scheme, approved by the Naval Board for training selected men for appointment as officers on the General List of the Permanent Naval Forces.”.

Heading to Division 1 of Part II.

3. The heading to Division 1 of Part II. of the Naval Financial Regulations is repealed and the following heading inserted in its stead:—

“Division 1.—Officers, including Cadet Midshipmen appointed under the Upper Yardman Training Scheme.”.

Officers’ General List—Active Pay.

4.—(1.) Regulation 9 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the words “The daily rates” and inserting in their stead the words “Subject to this regulation, the daily rates”;

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) the words “under the last preceding sub-regulation” (wherever occurring) and inserting in their stead the words “under sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation”; and

(c) by omitting sub-regulation (3.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulations:—

“(3.) A Cadet Midshipman who was appointed an officer under the Upper Yardman Training Scheme is eligible to be paid active pay at a daily rate equal to the sum of the amounts that would be payable to him in respect of active pay and of allowances under regulations 43, 48 and 69 of these Regulations if he were eligible to be paid active pay as a man of the rating and pay seniority held by him on the day immediately preceding his appointment as an officer under that scheme and were also eligible to be paid such of those allowances as he was eligible to be paid in respect of that day but is not eligible to be paid any allowance under regulation 27 of these Regulations.

“(3a.) Where, in the case of a Midshipman or Acting Sub-Lieutenant who was appointed an officer under the Upper Yardman Training Scheme, the sum of the amounts that would be payable to him in respect of active pay and of allowances under regulations 43, 48 and 69 of these Regulations if he were eligible to be paid active pay as a man of the rating and pay seniority held by him on the day immediately preceding his appointment as an officer under that scheme and were also eligible to be paid such of those allowances as he was eligible to be paid in respect of that day exceeds the sum of the active pay that would, but for this sub-regulation, be payable to him under sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation and any allowances that would, but for this sub-regulation, be payable to him under regulations 25 and 27 of these Regulations, the daily rate of active pay payable to him is a rate equal to that higher sum and, where he is paid at that rate,

he is not eligible to be paid active pay under sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation or any allowances under regulations 25 and 27 of these Regulations.”.

(2.) Where a man is appointed an officer under the Upper Yardman Training Scheme with seniority in the rank to which he is appointed of a date on or after the first day of January, 1962, but before the commencement of this regulation, the provisions of the sub-regulations inserted in the Naval Financial Regulations by the last preceding sub-regulation apply, by virtue of this sub-regulation, to and in relation to him in respect of the period from and including the date on and from which his seniority in that rank dates to and including the day immediately preceding the commencement of this regulation.

(3.) In the last preceding sub-regulation, “the Upper Yardman Training Scheme” has the same meaning as in regulation 9 of the Naval Financial Regulations.

Command money.

5. Regulation 18 of the Naval Financial Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

“18. An allowance, called ‘command money’, is payable, in accordance with the next two succeeding regulations, to an officer holding an appointment or rank specified in the first column of the following table at the rate specified in the second column of that table in relation to that appointment or rank:—

Officers eligible for command money.

6. Regulation 19 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the words “,Second Class,”; and

(b) by omitting from paragraph (d) of sub-regulation (1.) the words “a ship, of or above cruiser status,” and inserting in their stead the words “an aircraft carrier, a fast transport vessel or a fleet replenishment tanker”.

Surveying pay.

7. Regulation 25 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by inserting in sub-regulation (1.), after the words “Subject to”, the words “sub-regulation (3a.) of regulation 9 of these Regulations and to”.

Submarine pay—officers.

8. Regulation 27 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by inserting in sub-regulation (1.), after the words “Subject to”, the words “sub-regulations (3.) and (3a.) of regulation 9 of these Regulations and to”.

Heading to Division 2 of Part II.

9. The heading to Division 2 of Part II. of the Naval Financial Regulations is repealed and the following heading inserted in its stead:—

“Division 2.—Other Cadet Midshipmen.”.

Difference of mess subscription allowance.

10. Regulation 121 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by inserting, after the words “Cadet Midshipman”, the words “(other than a Midshipman or Cadet Midshipman who is eligible to be paid active pay at a rate calculated in accordance with the provisions of sub-regulation (3.) or sub-regulation (3a.) of regulation 9 of these Regulations)”.

Application of regulations 5 and 6.

11. Regulations 18 and 19 of the Naval Financial Regulations, as amended by these Regulations, apply to and in relation to an officer who had been appointed in command of a fleet replenishment tanker before the commencement of this regulation as if the amendments of those regulations effected by regulations 5 and 6 of these Regulations had come into operation on the fifteenth day of August, 1962.

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