STATUTORY RULES

1965 No. 159

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1963-1965.*

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 1903-1965.

Dated this fourth day of November, 1965.

CASEY

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for the Army.

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Amendments of the Royal Military College Regulations†

Parts.

1. Regulation 3 of the Royal Military College Regulations is amended by omitting the words—

“Part IX.—Leave of Absence. (Regulation 44.)”

and inserting in their stead the words—

“Part IX.—Leave of Absence. (Regulations 44-44b.)”.

Definitions.

2. Regulation 4 of the Royal Military College Regulations is amended by omitting the definition of “Formation, &., Commander” and inserting in its stead the following definition:—

“‘Medical Officer’ means an officer of the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps who is or has been a person registered as a medical practitioner under a law of a State or Territory that provides for the registration of medical practitioners;”.

Conditions of eligibility of Commonwealth candidates.

3. Regulation 5 of the Royal Military College Regulations is amended by inserting in paragraph (d) of sub-regulation (1.), after the words “Military Board determines”, the words “or has such other educational qualifications as will, in the opinion of the Commandant after considering the advice of the Professors of the College, enable the cadet to undergo instruction at the College”.

Documents to be furnished by Commonwealth candidates.

4. Regulation 7 of the Royal Military College Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (3.) the words “his Formation, &c., Commander” and inserting in their stead the words “the Commander of the Command, Military District, Army, Corps, Division, Task Force or other part of the Military Forces declared by the Military Board to be a formation for the purposes of the Australian Military Regulations in which he is serving”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 11 November, 1965

† Statutory Rules 1951, No. 40, as amended by Statutory Rules 1955, No. 76; 1957 No. 42; 1958, No. 84; 1960, Nos. 13 and 55; 1961, Nos. 40 and 101; 1962, No. 53; 1963, No 146; 1964, No 111;

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Organization of course.

5. Regulation 29 of the Royal Military College Regulations is amended by omitting form paragraph (a) of sub-section (6.) the words “for such a cadet in relation to that course” and inserting in their stead the words “or such other educational qualifications as will, in the opinion of the Commandant after considering the advice of the Professors of the College, enable the cadet to undergo that course”.

6. After regulation 44 of the Royal Military College Regulations the following regulations are inserted in Part IX.:—

Sick leave.

“44a. The Commandant may, upon the recommendation in writing of a medical officer, grant to a cadet who is sick leave of absence, called ‘sick leave’.

Emergency leave.

“44b.—(1.) Subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, where the Commandant is satisfied that, because of the death or serious illness of, or injury to, a parent or relative of a cadet or for any other special reason, it is desirable to do so, he may grant the cadet leave of absence, called ‘emergency leave’.

“(2.) Emergency leave shall not be granted to a cadet for a reason related to the cadet engaging in civilian employment.”.

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.