Universal Training Regulations (Amendment) (Provisional)

STATUTORY RULES.

1912. No. 254.

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1912.

Regulations (Provisional) for Universal Training, Part V., Citizen Forces, Addition, Regulation 186.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the following Regulation under the Defence Act 1903-1912 should come into immediate operation and, further, should be taken to have come into operation on and from the 1st January, 1913, and make the Regulation to come into operation accordingly as a Provisional Regulation.

Dated this twenty-fourth day of December, One thousand nine hundred and twelve.

DENMAN,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE.

REGULATIONS (PROVISIONAL) FOR UNIVERSAL TRAINING

Part V.—Citizen Forces.

Addition.

After Universal Training Regulation 185, add:—

Provost Staff.

“186. (i.) A Provost Staff shall be established to be a portion of the Administrative Staff of the Commonwealth Military Forces. It may consist of officers, warrant, and non-commissioned officers.

“(ii.) Vacancies in the Provost Staff will be notified from time to time in Military Orders as they occur. Preference will be given in the first instance to members of the Permanent Forces, or to persons who have served therein, who are medically fit and otherwise suitable.

“(iii.) Members of the Provost Staff may be appointed for a term not exceeding three years, but, with the approval of the Military Board, this term may be extended for the same or for any less period.

“(iv.) Commonwealth Military Regulation 134, relating to the age for retirement, shall not apply to members of the Provost Staff.

“(v.) The Provost Staff will be administered by the Adjutant-General’s branch of the staff in Districts, and, for the purposes of discipline, will be considered to be a “corps.”

“(vi.) The duties of the Provost Staff shall be as prescribed by the Military Board and published in Military Orders.

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“(vii.) The annual rates of pay shall be as follows:—

These rates of pay shall be inclusive of all allowances except ‘Travelling,’ which may be granted at the rates laid down for members of the Military Forces of corresponding rank.

“(viii.) The uniform of the Provost Staff shall be as prescribed by the Military Board.”

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