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This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.
Mechanically, these Regulations repeal the 1919 Naval Reserve Regulations and install a consolidated operational code for the Royal Australian Naval Reserve governing organisation, selection, training, discipline, medical care, uniforms, stores and finance.
They apply to Senior Naval Cadets, adult reservists, officers, medical officers and bandsmen; the Naval Board and the Director hold primary administrative discretion (regs 3, 5, 34) and financial obligations fall to Commonwealth funds under the financial provisions (Part XIII, regs 189–217).
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STATUTORY RULES.
1922. No. 165.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910-1918.
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 Naval Defence Act 1910-1918, to come into operation forthwith, unless otherwise specified herein.
Dated this twenty-fifth day of October, 1922.
FORSTER,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
W. MASSY GREENE,
Minister of State for Defence.
NAVAL RESERVE REGULATIONS.
Part I.—Preliminary.
Citation
1. The Regulations may be cited as the Naval Reserve Regulations.
Repeal.
2. The Naval Reserve Regulations (Statutory Rules 1919, No. 190, as amended to present date) are hereby repealed save as to any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred thereunder.
Definitions.
3. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears, the following terms shall have the meanings given:—
“Naval Board” means the Board of Administration constituted under the Acts.
“Director” means the Officer appointed to be Director of Naval Reserves and Naval Reserve Mobilization in the Naval Administration, or such person as may be appointed by the Naval Board to perform the duties of the position during his absence.
“S.N.O.” means the Senior Naval Officer present at the Port.
“District Naval Officer” means the Officer appointed by the Naval Board to command the Citizen Naval Forces in a District.
“Assistant to District Naval Officer” means the Officer appointed by the Naval Board to be Assistant to a District Naval Officer.
“Sub-District Naval Officer” means the Officer appointed by the Naval Board to command the Citizen Naval Forces in a Sub-District.
“Assistant to Sub-District Naval Officer” means the Officer appointed by the Naval Board to be Assistant to a Sub-District Naval Officer.
“Royal Australian Naval Reserve” includes all persons who are liable to be trained under Part XII. of the Defence Act, and who are allotted to the Naval Forces, and all persons who volunteer to serve in this Force. The Reserve includes both “Cadets” and “Adults” as defined below.
“Cadet” means a Senior Naval Cadet, i.e., a male between the ages of 14 and 18 years liable to training under Part XII. of the Defence Act and allotted to the Naval Forces.
“Adult” means any person serving in, or allotted to, the Royal Australian Naval Reserve other than a Cadet.
Parts.
4. These Regulations are divided into Parts, as follows:—
Part I.—Preliminary.
Part II.—Organization.
Part III.—Officers.
Part IV.—Training.
Part V.—Efficiency.
Part VI.—Discipline.
Part VII.—Gunnery.
Part VIII.—Medical.
Part IX.—Uniform.
Part X.—Provisions.
Part XI.—Stores and Store Accounting.
Part XII.—Books and Forms.
Part XIII.—Financial.
Part II.—Organization.
Section 1—General.
Responsibilities of D.N.R.M.
5. The Director of Naval Reserves and Naval Reserve Mobilization shall be responsible to the Naval Board for the administration of all matters relating to the Royal Australian Naval Reserve, other than those in respect of Finance and Stores.
District organization.
6.—(1) The Royal Australian Naval Reserve shall be organized in Districts; these Districts shall be subdivided into Sub-Districts.
(2) The Districts and Sub-Districts may be added to or re-organized as may be approved by the Naval Board.
District inspections.
Responsibility of certifying officer.
Section 2—Senior Naval Cadets.
Title.
Annual selection of Naval trainees.
10.—(1) Each District Naval Officer shall arrange with the appropriate Military Authorities for musters to be held annually, as early as possible in March, of all cadets registered by the Military Authorities who reside within the Naval Training Area. The Sub-District Naval Officer shall select for Naval Training such number of boys who attain the age of 14 years during that year as may be authorized for his Sub-District, and the boys so selected shall be regarded as allotted to the Naval Forces.
Order of selection of trainees.
11.—(1) Except at Thursday Island, trainees for the Royal Australian Naval Reserve shall be selected in the following order, until the required number is obtained:—
(a) suitable volunteers residing not more than one and a half (1½) miles from the Naval Drill Hall;
(b) any other suitable trainee residing not more than one and a half (1½) miles from the Naval Drill Hall;
(c) suitable volunteers residing at a distance of from one and a half (1½) miles to three (3) miles from the Naval Drill Hall;
(d) any other suitable trainee residing at a distance of from one and a half to three (3) miles from the Naval Drill Hall;
(e) suitable volunteers residing at a distance of from three (3) to three and a half (3½) miles from the Naval Drill Hall;
(f) any other suitable trainee residing at a distance of from three (3) to three and a half (3½) miles from the Naval Drill Hall.
(2) Only in the event of there being an insufficient number of suitable and medically fit youths of the proper age resident within the one and a half (1½) mile radius are any other youths to be enrolled. Similarly, only in the event of there being an insufficient number of suitable and medically fit youths of the proper age resident within the three (3) mile radius are any other youths to be enrolled.
Selection of petty officer and leading cadets.
Section 3—Adult Force.
Establishment of ranks and ratings.
13.—(1) The numbers of ranks and ratings to be borne on the strength of each District shall be as set forth in the establishment issued by the Director.
(2) The Director shall be responsible that the numbers of the various ranks and ratings included in the establishment laid down for any year do not exceed the complement authorized by the Appropriation for that year.
(3) Numbers in excess of those authorized for any particular rank or rating may be borne on the strength, provided that there are vacancies in higher ranks or ratings of the same branch, and that the total complement the District is not exceeded.
Duties of adult forces.
14. For administrative purposes, a member of the Adult Force of any Sub-District may be detailed for certain specified duties.
Entry into adult force
15. Before the 1st July in the year in which a Cadet reaches the age of eighteen years, he shall be medically examined, and if found fit in every respect, shall become a member of the Adult Force on the 1st July in that year. He shall receive therein such rating as he is considered most suitable for in accordance with these Regulations, provided the establishment is not exceeded.
Advancement to higher rank or rating.
Promotion up to petty officer.
17.—(1) A District Naval Officer is empowered to promote up to and including the rating of or equivalent to Petty Officer in accordance with the approved conditions, provided that, when a trainee is mobilized for three months or over in time of war or emergency, he may sit for examination, and if passed and recommended, be advanced in rating, irrespective of whether he has served the required time in the lower rating to qualify him for promotion.
(2) Promotions made under this regulation shall not be in excess of those allowed by the establishment without the prior approval of the Naval Board.
Ante-dated promotions.
Reversion to former rating.
19.—(1) A Chief Petty Officer, Petty Officer, Leading Seaman, or equivalent rating may, with the consent of the District Naval Officer, revert to any lower rating previously held by him, except to avoid trial by Court Martial.
(2) Such reversion, and the fact that it was at the member’s own request, shall be noted in the Record of Service and Record Book, and signed by the District Naval Officer.
Bands.
20.—(1) Royal Australian Naval Reserve Bands may be maintained at Sub-Districts approved by the Naval Board.
(2) The standard complement of a band shall be one Bandmaster and 24 Bandsmen.
Enrolment in bands.
21.—(1) The Director may approve of the enrolment in the Citizen Naval Forces for a period of five years of such number of physically fit men, who shall not be liable to perform Naval Training, as are required to maintain the strength of Bands.
Attendance.
(2) Members of Bands shall be required to attend at such places and on such occasions as the District Naval Officer may direct, not exceeding the equivalent of 25 days annually.
Expiration of enrolment.
(3) Enrolment in a Royal Australian Naval Reserve Band shall automatically expire upon the calling out by Proclamation in time of war or emergency of all male inhabitants liable to serve in the Citizen Forces under Part IV. of the Defence Act, when all Bandsmen affected shall be discharged from the Citizen Naval Forces and shall become liable for service under Part IV. of the Defence Act.
Bandmasters.
22.—(1) A Bandmaster enrolled under regulation 20 shall hold the rank of Bandmaster, which shall be equivalent to that of Warrant’ Officer.
Bandsmen.
(2) A Bandsman shall hold the rating of Bandsman, which shall be equivalent to that of Petty Officer.
Age of entry and retirement.
(3) The minimum age of entry for a Bandsman shall be 25 years, and the retiring age 50 years.
Voluntary service subsequent to compulsory training.
28. A rating of the Royal Australian Naval Reserve who has completed his Naval Service as required by Part XII. of the Defence Act, and who volunteers for further Naval Service, may be permitted to continue to serve in the Royal Australian Naval Reserve for successive terms of three years provided that he—
(a) volunteers for further service,
(b) is medically fit,
(c) subscribes to the prescribed oath or affirmation, and
(d) shall finally retire on reaching the age prescribed in these Regulations.
Part III.—Officers.
Section 1.—General.
Complement.
24.—(1) The number of Officers of the Royal Australian Naval Reserve of each rank allowed to each District shall be as shown on the establishment issued by the Director with the approval of the Naval Board.
(2) The number of Officers of each rank as allowed by the establishment shall not be exceeded without the special approval of the Naval Board provided that nothing in this regulation shall affect the appointment of Honorary Officers as provided in regulation 41.
Relative rank.
Command.
Definition and authority of “captain.”
Seniority and pay.
28.—(1) The seniority of an Officer of the Royal Australian Naval Reserve in his particular rank shall be regulated by the date of his appointment. In the event of two or more Officers being appointed in the same rank on the same date, they shall take seniority according to the order in which their names appear in the Gazette in which their appointments are notified.
(2) On first appointment, or subsequent promotion to confirmed rank, an Officer in the Royal Australian Naval Reserve shall be paid at the prescribed rates for his rank as from the date upon which he performed the duties of his rank, notwithstanding that the date of his appointment for the purposes of seniority may be ante-dated prior to the date of taking up the dirties of the rank.
How borne.
Reports on officers.
30. The District Naval Officer shall render annually on the 30th June a report to the Director of all Officers of the Royal Australian Naval Reserve attached to his District.
Service of officers.
31.—(1) Service as an Officer of the Royal Australian Naval Reserve shall be equivalent to and in lieu of service required under Part XII. of the Defence Act.
(2) An Officer who volunteers to continue service as an Officer of the Royal Australian Naval Reserve, subsequent to reaching the age of 26 years, may, with the approval of the Naval Board, be permitted to do so.
Liability of medical officers for war service.
32. A Surgeon Commander, Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander, or Surgeon Lieutenant of the Royal Australian Naval Reserve shall be liable to be called out for service with the Fleet in time of war or emergency.
Extra training for medical officers.
Section 2.—Appointment of Officers.
Appointments and commissions.
34. The Naval Board may, on the recommendation of the Director, and subject to the qualifications and conditions prescribed in these Regulations recommend suitable candidates for appointment as Officers in the Royal Australian Naval Reserve.
Nationality.
35. A candidate for appointment as an Officer must be of pure European descent, and must be the son of natural-born or naturalized British subjects.
Age on first appointment.
36.—(1) The age for the first appointment of an Officer of the Royal Australian Naval Reserve shall not, except as provided in sub-regulation (2) below and regulation 38, exceed, in the case of—
| Years. | |
|---|---|
| Midshipman................................... | 19 |
| Midshipman (E)................................ | 19 |
| Paymaster Midshipman............................ | 19 |
| Acting Engineer Sub-Lieutenant...................... | 20 |
| Sub-Lieutenant................................. |
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