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GARDEN ISLAND W/T STATION.
The installation of A.C. machinery in W/T Station, Garden Island, havinj
been completed, paragraph 2 of Navy Order No. 4/1921 is cancelled.
(C. 21/18645.
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AMENDMENT OF FINANCIAL REGULATIONS (SEA-GOING)
PAYMENT OF ALLOWANCE TO JUNIOR ACCOUNTANT
OFFICER WHEN THE ACCOUNTANT OFFICER IS ABSENT.
On and from 1st April, 1921, the provisions of Article 1394 of the King's
Regulations and Admiralty Instructions are applicable to the Royal Australian
Navy.
The following amendments of the Financial Regulations (Sea-going) have
been approved accordingly, with effect as from 1st April, 1921":—
AMENDMENTS.
1. Insert, immediately after Article 8, new heading and Article 8A to
read as follows :—
Pay for Performing Higher Duties—Officers.
Article 8A.—When Accountant Officer is absent—
When the Accountant Officer (the rank allowed by
complement being not below Paymaster Lieutenant-
Commander) is absent from the ship continuously for
upwards of three months otherwise than on leave, the
Paymaster Lieutenant, Paymaster Sub-Lieutenant, or
Paymaster Midshipman performing his duty, although not
holding an acting order as Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander,
may, on the approval of the Naval Board, be
granted additional pay ; but the special remuneration thus
granted shall not exceed the difference between the officer's
own rate of pay and the lowest rate of pay for a Paymaster
Lieutenant-Commander. A full report of the circumstances
shall be made to the Naval Board in order that the rate
payable may be decided.
2. Insert immediately after Article 9 new heading to read as
follows :—
Pay for Performing Higher Duties— Petty Officers and
Other Ratings.
Article ^A.—When Senior Rating is absent—
Where a Senior Rating is absent for a period of fourteen
or more consecutive days through sickness or on duty, and
the consequent vacancy cannot be filled by drafting, the
rating required to perform the higher duties of the Senior
Rating may be paid the difference between his rate of
Active and Deferred Pay received in the lower rating and
the corresponding minimum rates prescribed for the higher
rating.
3. Article 29A is repealed.
(A. 21/19988.)
27 AMENDMENT OF FINANCIAL REGULATIONS (SEA-GOING)
TROPICAL PAY.
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The following amendment of the Financial Regulations (Sea-going) is
approved :—
Article 9 is amended as from 1st July, 1921, by omitting clause (25)
and inserting the following in its stead :—
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per diem.
(25) Tropical Pay- s. d.
(a) To all Engine-room, Officers' Cook, and Ship's
Cook ratings and Seamen under training in the stokehold
when actually employed and doing duty in enginerooms,
stokeholds, boiler-rooms, and auxiliary machinery
compartments in connexion with the Engine-room
Department or in the galleys of surface craft, including
steam-boats but excluding open motor boats, or in the
interiors of submarines, subject to the conditions herein
laid down, both when at sea and in harbour, in the
following circumstances :—
(i) Within the Tropics, at any time,
(ii) Within the Red Sea or Persian Oulf, between
•fche 1st April and 30th November inclusive.
(iii) In surveying ships only, when employed in
surveying, but not on ordinary passages, when
between the Northern Tropic and latitude 30 deg.
north, between the 15th June and 15th October
inclusive, or between the Southern Tropic and
latitude 30 deg. south, between 15th December and
15th April inclusive, but payment is not to be made
in addition to payment under (ii) above . . . . 1 6
(b) To ratings of all other branches when continuously
employed other than as Stokers, under the conditions
herein laid down. Payment to such ratings shall be
confined to those employed whilst at day work for a full
day, or keeping regular watches during the 24 hours 16
Payment shall not be made in respect of employment elsewhere in the
ship without prior Naval Board sanction., and shall be confined to periods
during which steam is raised or internal combustion engines are in use, or.
when galley fires are burning.
(21/6868.)
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AMENDMENT OF FBUANCD\L REGULATIONS (SEA-GOING)-
PAYMENT OF ALLOWANCE TO SEAMEN QUALD7IED IN
ORDNANCE (Q.O.).
The N»val Board has approved of the payment in the Royal Australian
Navy of an allowance, at the rate and under the conditions laid down in
Admiralty Monthly Order 2815 of 1919, as amended by Admiralty Monthly
Order 2629 of 1920, to Seamen qualified in Ordnance.