STATUTORY RULES.

1923. No. 32.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910-1918.

I, THE GOVERNOR GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Naval Defence Act 1910-1918, to come into operation forthwith, unless otherwise specified herein.

Dated this twenty-first day of March, 1923,

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

E. K BOWDEN,

Minister of State for Defence.

Amendment of Naval Financial Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1920, No. 248, as amended to present date.)

1. Regulation 36 is amended as from 1st January, 1923, by inserting after the words "W/T" in the first line of sub-regulation (17), the words. “War Staff"

2. Regulation 38 is amended as follows:—

(1) By omitting from sub-regulation (19) the words “(Not payable with pay as gunlayer, seaman gunner, or seaman torpedo man)

(2) By inserting after, sub-regulation (33), as from 1st January, 1923, the following sub-regulation:—

“ (33a) Surveying Recorders

In ships employed on surveying work, to ratings not exceeding three in number per ship, who perform the duties and are qualified in accordance with the conditions prescribed in King’s Regulations and Admiralty Instructions:—

(3) By inserting after sub-regulation (39), as from 23rd October, 1922, the following sub-regulation;—

“ (39a) Shorthand Instructors—

C.2607.—Price 3d.

(4) By omitting, as from 1st January, 1923, sub-regulation (47).

(5) By omitting from sub-regulation (59) the words “Payable to one rating only in each ship or establishment” and inserting in their stead the words “Payable to two ratings only in Light Cruisers and H.M.A.S. Platypus, and to one rating in other ships or establishments”

3. Regulation 41 is amended, as from 1st October, 1922, by omitting from sub-regulation (2) the words “(over eighteen)” after the words “ordinary seaman” in the seventh line of the scale of Deferred Pay for Petty Officers and Men.

4. Regulation 115 is repealed and the following regulation is inserted in its stead:—

"115. (1) Government stores except as hereinafter provided shall not be lent, exchanged, or sold without Minister’s approval.

(2) Obsolete or unserviceable stores, arms and equipment may be lent with the approval of the Naval Board.

(3) Stores which form part of the equipment of the Naval Forces for warshall not be issued on loan for use for other than naval purposes except for charitable purposes and then only by special consent of the Minister.

(4) The Naval Board may approve of the sale or the writing off of condemned, unfit, damaged or deficient stores, the value of which does not exceed £100.

(5) The Naval Board may approve of the taking on charge of excess stores.

(6) The Director of Naval Stores and Victualling, and the Director of Ordnance, Torpedoes and Mines, may approve of the sale or writing off of condemned, unfit, damaged or deficient stores, the value of which does not exceed £5.

(7) The Naval Board may, subject to naval requirements approve of the issue of stores on repayment of not less than cost, to other Commonwealth Departments, to the Imperial Government and to other Governments.

(8) This regulation shall not apply to the sale of articles of kit and other articles, the issues of which are governed by regulation.”

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