STATUTORY RULES.

1917. No. 241.

REGULATION UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1915.

I, SIR ARTHUR LYULPH STANLEY, Governor of the State of Victoria and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting as the Deputy of the Governor-General in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation, under the Defence Act 1903-1915, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated the nineteenth day of September, 1917.

A. L. STANLEY,

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

Regulation 51 of War Financial Regulations, dated 28th February, 1917 (Statutory Rules 1917, No. 49), is repealed, and the following new Regulation made in lieu thereof: To take effect from 1st July, 1917:—

“51. Recruits who, on enlistment, provide themselves privately with a razor may draw a cash allowance of 2s. in lieu of receiving a free issue from stock.

A razor for which this allowance has been paid will become the property of the Commonwealth, and will be accounted for as laid down in Military Orders 239/1916.”

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C.12674.—Price 3d.