STATUTORY RULES.

1938. No. 107.

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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 mate the following Regulations under the Naval Defence Act 1910-1934.

Dated this twenty-sixth

day of November         , 1938.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Defence.

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Amendments of the Fleet Reserve Regulations, †

Annual Training.

1. Regulation 19 of the Fleet Reserve Regulations is amended by adding at the end of sub-regulation (2) the following proviso:—

“Provided further that the Naval Board may, in the case of a man who enrols immediately on his discharge from the Permanent Service, grant him an exemption from training in respect of the second and third training years of the period of his first enrolment.”.

Clothing.

2. Regulation 34 of the Fleet Reserve Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting in sub-regulation (1), after the word “may”, the words “, subject to this regulation,”; and

(b) by omitting sub-regulation (2) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulations:—

“(2) Payment of an allowance under this regulation shall not be made in respect of any year in which, in accordance with sub-regulation (2) of regulation 19 of these Regulations, a member is not required to perform training.

“(3) In the case of a member who, in accordance with sub-regulation (4) of regulation 19 of these Regulations, is not required to perform training in respect of a training year, payment of the allowance payable under this regulation shall be made with the final retainer in his last year of service in the Fleet Reserve.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on     1938.—Eleventh Amendment.

† Statutory Rules 1926, No. 61, as amended by Statutory Rules 1928, Nos. 6, 31 and 140; 1930, No. 13; 1932, Nos. 74 and 99; 1934, No. 162; 1935, No. 74; and 1936, Nos. 79 and 147.

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“(4) Except as provided in sub-regulation (3) of this regulation, payment to a member of an allowance under this regulation shall be made with drill pay upon his completion of each period of annual training for the year in respect of which he has performed training.”.

Retainer.

3. Regulation 40 of the Fleet Reserve Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (3) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(3) When a member is not required to perform training in respect of the training year in which he enrols, or is exempted from training in respect of the second and third training years in the period of his first enrolment, or in respect of either of those years, payment of retainer to him shall be suspended after payment for the first four, eight or twelve quarters, as the case may be, of the period of his exemption from training, until he completes his first period of training, when payment shall be made in accordance with sub-regulation (1) of this regulation.”.

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