1H.M.A. Training Ship "Tingira" Regulations (Provisional)

STATUTORY RULES.

1912. No. 221.

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910–11.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that on account of urgency, the following Regulations under the Naval Defence Act 1910–11, should come into immediate operation, and further, should be taken to have come into operation on the 1st day of June, 1912, and make the Regulations to come into operation accordingly as Provisional Regulations.

Dated this thirteenth day of November, One thousand nine hundred and twelve.

DENMAN,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE.

REGULATIONS FOR H.M.A. TRAINING SHIP “TINGIRA.”

GENERAL.

1. (1) The Captain of the Boys’ Training Ship is directly responsible to the Naval Board for the training of the boys entered for service in the Commonwealth Naval Forces.

(2) The Captain is to take all proper steps to insure these regulations being carried out on a uniform system, and, with this in view, he is authorized to issue such orders in regard to details as he may consider necessary, taking care that they are not in opposition to the Navy Orders

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or to the King’s Regulations and Admiralty Instructions, by which he will be guided in all points not specially provided for in these Regulations.

(3) The establishment of the Training Ship and the number of Boys to be trained will be as approved by the Naval Board, subject to provision on Estimates.

(4) All questions bearing on alterations of ship’s fittings requiring financial expenditure, training of boys, complements, and the disciplinary system, either of men or boys, are to be submitted by the Captain to the Naval Secretary, for the consideration and approval of the Naval Board, before any financial liability is incurred.

2. The duty of regulating the entry of boys is intrusted to the Captain of the Training Ship, and he is to carry this out in accordance with the instructions he may receive from time to time on this subject, submitting to the Naval Board any modification which he may think it right to suggest. He is empowered also to communicate with the Officers of the Recruiting Areas as to any special circumstances, and to regulate the number of entries that are not specially provided for by Naval Board order.

DISCHARGES BY PURCHASE.

3. Provided the Captain is satisfied as to the reasons given, and the, exigencies of the Service permit, discharge of a boy may be permitted on payment by the parents or guardians of the following amounts:—