STATUTORY RULES.
1921. No. 60.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1918.
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 Defence Act 1903-1918, to come into operation forthwith.
Dated this sixteenth day of March, 1921.
FORSTER,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command.
G. F. PEARCE,
Minister of State for Defence.
The Australian Military Regulations 1916.
Amendments.
Regulation 1229 is repealed and the following regulations substituted therefor:—
“1229. (1) Subject to their possessing the necessary qualifying service Officers of the Senior Cadets may on retirement he placed upon the Retired List, Senior Cadets, and be granted a step in honorary rank or be permitted to retain their rank as the case may be in accordance with the following table:—
Rank (Substantive or Brevet). | Qualifying service for step in rank on Retired List, Senior Cadets. | Qualifying service for retention of rank on Retired List, Senior Cadets. |
Lieutenant-Colonel* Major............. | ......................... Twenty years commissioned service |
|
Lieutenant 2nd Lieutenant | Fifteen years’ commissioned service |
* No step in honorary rank higher than that of Lieutenant-Colonel shall be granted.
(2) Officers of the Senior Cadets placed upon the Retired List, Senior Cadets, are permitted to wear the uniform of the Senior Cadets with the addition of the letter “R” on each shoulder strap.
(3) Commissioned service on the active list in the Permanent, Militia or Volunteer Military Forces may be counted as qualifying service for the purpose of this regulation but no period of commissioned service shall be counted more than once.
(4) An officer of the Senior Cadets found to be permanently medically unfit owing to wounds or sickness, not due to misconduct contracted on active service subsequent to 1st of August, 1914, may, notwithstanding that he does not possess the qualifying service prescribed by this regulation be permitted on the recommendation of the Military Board to retain his rank on retirement.
(5) Officers of the Senior Cadets who retired prior to the commencement of this regulation and were permitted on retirement to retain their rank under the provisions of the regulations made under the Act may be placed upon the Retired List, Senior Cadets, and subject to the provisions of this regulation in respect of qualifying service may be granted a step in honorary rank.”
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