STATUTORY RULES.

1913. No. 323.

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PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903–1912.

Regulations for the Military Forces of the Commonwealth—Regulation 57—Amendment.

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 make the Regulation to come into operation forthwith as a Provisional Regulation.

Dated this nineteenth day of December, One thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

DENMAN,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

E. D. MILLEN.

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REGULATIONS FOR THE MILITARY FORCES OF THE COMMONWEALTH.

Amendment.

Officers—First Appointments.

Regulation 57, which reads:—

“First appointments will, as a rule, be made in the rank of Second Lieutenant (but to rank of Captain in the case of the Australian Army Medical Corps and to the rank of Lieutenant in the case of the Australian Intelligence Corps and Australian Army Veterinary Corps).”

is cancelled, and the following substituted therefor:—

“57. First appointments will, as a rule, be made in the rank of Second Lieutenant (but to rank of Captain in the case of the Australian Army Medical Corps, and of the Army Veterinary Corps (Citizen Forces), and to the rank of Lieutenant in the case of the Australian Intelligence Corps).”

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