Naval Forces Regulations (Amendment)

STATUTORY RULES. 1934. No. 124. _______ 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. _______ 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 Regulation 86 is repealed and the following regulation is inserted in its stead:— “86.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.” _________________________________________________________________________________ * Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 11th October, 1934. ____________________ By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra. 4496.—P RICE 3 d .