STATUTORY RULES.

1934. No. 124.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910-1934.*

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 1910-1934.

Dated this tenth day of October, 1934.

ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

JOS. FRANCIS

for Minister of State for Defence.

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Amendment of Naval Forces Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1926, No. 196, as amended to this date.)

(Fourteenth Amendment.)

1. Regulation 86 is repealed and the following regulation is inserted in its stead:—

“86. (1) The seniority and rank of an officer on appointment to the Auxiliary Services shall be those of the rank or relative rank last held by him on the. Sea-going List. Except as prescribed in the following sub-regulations, the seniority and rating of Petty Officers and men shall be determined similarly to officers.

(2) A Petty Officer of four years’ or more seniority engaged as a member of the Naval Reserve Staff shall be granted the rating of Chief Petty Officer.

(3) A Boatman shall have the relative rating of Able Seaman.

(4) A Constable of the Naval Dockyard Police shall have the relative rating of Petty Officer.”

2. Regulation 102, sub-regulation (2), is amended—

(a) by omitting the words “or on after” and inserting in their stead the words “on or after”;

(b) by adding the following:—

“and that a Deputy Inspector of Naval Ordnance shall retire at 52, and an Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance at 47 years of age.”

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* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 11th October, 1934.

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By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

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