STATUTORY RULES.
1941. No. 21.
REGULATION UNDER THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910, 1934.*
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Naval Defence Act 1910-1934.
Dated this fifth day of February, 1941.
(SGD.) GOWRIE
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister of State for the Navy.
Amendment of the Naval Forces Regulations. †
After regulation 81a of the Naval Forces Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—
“Entry and advancement—Coding Branch.
81b. (1) In time of war a man may be entered in the Permanent Naval Forces (Sea-going) in the rating of Ordinary Coder, Coder or Leading Coder, for a period of two years’ service or for the duration of the war, whichever is the longer.
(2) Advancement of an Ordinary Coder to Coder and of a Coder to Leading Coder shall be subject to such conditions as are determined by the Naval Board.
(3) An Ordinary Coder shall have the relative rating of Ordinary Seaman, a Coder the relative rating of Able Seaman, and a Leading Coder the relative rating of Leading Seaman.”.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1941.—Seventeenth amendment.
† Statutory Rules 1935, No. 133, as amended by Statutory Rules 1936, Nos. 63 and 119; 1938, Nos. 29, 46, 70 and 91; 1939, Nos. 26, 27, 72 and 143; 1940, Nos. 123, 135, 147, 197, 217 and 240.
By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.
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