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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 82

4. For the purpose of the payment of the above allowances the day is to be reckoned as of ten hours, including intermediate dinner-hour.

5. Work in Confined Spaces.—Extra pay, at the rates shown in Appendix IV, is to be paid under the conditions laid down in the King’s Regulations and Admiralty Instructions.

6. Allowances when Sick on Shore.—When officers and men fall sick whilst on leave and are unfit to travel, payment of leave allowance shall cease, and sick-allowance of 6s. per diem become payable from the date sickness commences, provided that the illness is not the result of imprudence, carelessness, or neglect. In the latter case neither leave allowance nor sick-allowance shall be granted, but if the case be attended by a Surgeon and Agent his fees shall be payable from public funds.

7. Sick-allowance may be granted up to a limit of ninety-one days, which period may be extended in exceptional cases. After thirty days the approval of the Naval Board to the continuance of the allowance must be obtained. All payments are to be supported by a certificate from the medical practitioner who attended the case, setting out the nature of the disability and the period under treatment and unfit to travel. Payment is to be made on a voucher through the Cash Account accompanied by the receipted account of the medical practitioner.

8. Sick-allowance shall cover cost of lodgings, rations, medical attendance and medicines, and when a duly appointed Surgeon and Agent is in charge of a case his authorized charges for visits and medicines shall be deducted from the total amount payable.

9. In serious cases, when the visits of the medical practitioner attending the case are necessarily of such frequency that his fees absorb the bulk of the sick-allowance payable, the allowance may, on the authority of the Naval Board, be increased to such amount as is necessary to cover these fees plus payment of leave allowance for the period the officer or man was sick and unfit to travel.

10. The person concerned shall be required to produce the medical practitioner’s receipted account, or if attended by a Surgeon and Agent his account should have been received on board, before final payment of the allowance is made. Advances may, however, be made during the continuance of the illness, at the discretion of the Commanding Officer, in order that the patient may have ready money for his maintenance during his illness and be in a position to meet the medical practitioner’s account.

11. The provisions of the King’s Regulations and Admiralty Instructions regarding the furnishing of medical certificates and other points not dealt with herein shall apply in the New Zealand Division.

12. Pilotage.—Pilotage will be payable to Navigating Officers at such rates as may be approved by the Naval Board, subject to the general conditions laid down in the King’s Regulations and Admiralty Instructions, and to such further conditions as the Naval Board may prescribe.

13. Docking and Undocking Men-of-War.—An allowance of £1 shall be payable to the senior shipwright rank or rating in charge of the docking or undocking of one of H.M. ships of the New Zealand Division at a private yard.

14. Interpreters.—Officers who may be on the official list of those qualified as interpreters shall be paid the allowance authorized by the King’s Regulations and Admiralty Instructions when appointed for such duties.

15. Ratings acting as interpreters shall receive an allowance of 1s. an hour, with a maximum payment of 5s. for any one day, whilst actually performing the duties.

16. Tropical Allowance.—Tropical allowance is payable under the conditions laid down in the King’s Regulations and Admiralty Instructions.

17. Climate Pay.—Subject to the prior approval of the Naval Board, climate pay shall be paid at the rates and under the conditions laid down in the King’s Regulations and Admiralty Instructions.

18. Recruiting: Capitation and Medical Fees.—Military warrant or non-commissioned officers of the Instructional staff who act as Recruiting Officers for the Navy Department may be granted a capitation allowance of £1 for each recruit finally entered for service in the New Zealand Division.

19. A fixed fee not exceeding one guinea per capita shall be payable to medical practitioners for the examination of Naval recruits at places where there is no Naval Medical Officer or Surgeon and Agent available.

20. Officiating Judge-Advocate.—The allowance to an officiating Judge-Advocate of a Court-martial is as follows:—

If the Court shall sit one day only £ s. d.
If more than one day, then for each day 4 0 0
3 0 0