New Zealand Gazette – 1937 – No. 71

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promotion when within three years of the normal date on which they would become eligible by age, and are qualified in all other respects under the regulations. No rating will, however, be promoted under this clause until he is within two years of the normal age for promotion.

  1. The existence of vacancies in the established numbers of warrant officers will invariably govern promotion to warrant rank in the New Zealand Division.

  2. A return is to be forwarded to the Naval Board on 31st December every year giving the names of candidates who are studying with a view to passing the educational examination for warrant rank.

Article 92: Cancel clause 5, and substitute:—

  1. On return to New Zealand the ratings specified in paragraph 4 may be granted foreign service leave at the rate of eleven days for each completed period of six months, and two days for each completed month in periods of less than six months, of absence from New Zealand, reckoned from the date of leaving New Zealand to date of return, irrespective of any leave which may have been granted whilst absent from New Zealand. They may also be granted leave at the rate of twenty-eight days per annum (fourteen days for six months, and two days for each completed month in periods of less than six months) for the unexpired portion of the current New Zealand leave year, reckoned from the date of return to New Zealand—e.g., a man returning to New Zealand on 1st May, in addition to his foreign service leave, would be eligible for twenty-four days’ leave before the subsequent 31st March.

Article 100: Add new clause 2:—

  1. Officers placed on half pay under the provisions of Article 34 shall receive pay at the daily rate of one-half of the active pay prescribed for their rank but shall not be entitled to allowances of any nature whatever. (See 106 (Deferred pay).)

Article 106: Cancel, and substitute:—

  1. Deferred pay: Officers.—Officers of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines loaned for service in the New Zealand Division are ineligible for deferred pay.

  2. Deferred pay is payable to other officers on the Active List of the New Zealand Division at the following daily rates which have been in force from 1st July, 1936, and subject to the conditions in the following clauses:—

Rank or Relative Rank. Daily Rate. s. d.
Warrant officer 3 0
Commissioned officer from warrant rank—
On promotion 3 0
After three years 3 3
Lieutenant promoted from warrant rank 4 0
Acting Sub-Lieutenant 2 0
Sub-Lieutenant 2 0
Lieutenant—
On promotion 3 0
After four years 3 9
Lieutenant-Commander—
On promotion 4 6
After three years 5 0
Commander—
On promotion 6 0
After three years 7 6
After six years 8 0
Captain—
On promotion 9 3
After three years 9 6

An additional allowance of 2s. a day is payable to Surgeon Commanders, Surgeon Lieutenant-Commanders, and Surgeon Lieutenants, but not to Dental Officers.

  1. Deferred pay and accumulated interest will become payable on the occasions specified hereunder:—

(i) On the resignation or retirement of an officer for age, or for any other cause except as prescribed in clauses 4 and 5.

(ii) On invaliding of an officer, except as provided in clause 5.

(iii) On death of an officer while serving.



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🛡️ Amendments to Naval Defence Regulations (continued from previous page)

🛡️ Defence & Military
29 September 1937
Naval Defence Act, Regulations, Probation, Discharge, Purchase