STATUTORY RULES.

1929. No. 51.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1927.

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 Defence Act 1903-1927, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this eleventh day of May, 1929.

STONEHAVEN

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

T. W. GLASGOW

Minister of State for Defence.

Financial and Allowance Regulations for the Australian Military Forces and Senior Cadets.

(Statutory Rules, 1926, No. 211, as amended to this date.)

Amendments.

(i) Financial Regulation 217 is cancelled and the following is substituted therefor:—

“217. A member of the Military Forces who attends a school or course of instruction authorized by a formation, &c., commander to be held either continuously or at intervals for an equivalent duration may, if meals and accommodation for sleeping are not provided and the member is required to incur expense for meals, he paid an allowance for meals at the rate of—

(a) 3s. 6d. in the case of an officer and 2s. 6d. in the case of a soldier for each day of his attendance of not less than six working hours, and

(b) 2s. 6d. in the case of an officer, 2s. 3d. in the case of a warrant officer and 2s. in the case of a non-commissioned officer or private soldier for each day on which he attends during the evening only and for a period of not less than three working hours.”

(ii) Cancel Financial Regulation 218.

(iii) Add the following new sub-paragraph to Financial Regulation 251:—

“The formation, &c., commander may vary the scale prescribed herein by authorizing the issue of any equivalents in articles of food provided that the value of the daily ration so issued shall not exceed eighteenpence or the contract value of the rations shown in the daily ration scale, whichever is the greater.”

(iv) In Financial Regulation 255, delete the words “Regulations 251 and” and substitute “Regulation” in lieu.

By Authority: H. J. Green, Government Printer, Canberra.

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