STATUTORY RULES.

1915. No. 226.

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1915.

Universal Training Regulations—Part V.—Citizen Forces.—Regulations 149 and 160.

Amendments.

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 Regulations under the Defence Act 1903-1915 should come into immediate operation and, further, should be taken to have come into operation on and from the 1st July, 1915, and make the Regulations to come into operation accordingly as Provisional Regulations.

Dated this twenty-fourth day of November, One thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE.

Regulations (Provisional) for Universal Training.

Part V.—Citizen Forces.

Amendments.

Regulation 149.—Delete that portion of Paragraph (4), which reads:—

“Grade 4.—Sergeants-Major, Quartermaster-Sergeants, Colour-Sergeants of Squadrons, Batteries, and Companies, and others of similar grade, are eligible to compete for promotion to higher non-commissioned rank or to rank of Warrant Officer.”

and substitute the following therefor:—

“Grade 4.—Sergeants-Major, Quartermaster-Sergeants of Squadrons, Batteries, and Companies, and others of similar grade, are eligible to compete for promotion to higher non-commissioned rank or to Warrant Officer.”

Regulation 160.—In column headed “Rank” delete the word “Coleur-Sergeant” and substitute therefor the words “Company Quartermaster Sergeant (Infantry).”

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