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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 18

Financial Instructions and Allowance Regulations for the New Zealand Military Forces 1943.

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by the Defence Act, 1909, and the amendments thereof, I, Cyril Louis Norton Newall, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby make the following regulations.

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REGULATIONS.

PART I.—PRELIMINARY.

1. (a) These regulations may be cited as the Financial Instructions and Allowance Regulations for the New Zealand Military Forces 1943.

(b) These regulations are divided into Parts, as follows:—

Part I.—Preliminary.
Part II.—Regular Force: Pay.
Part III.—Regular Force: Special Allowances.
Part IV.—Regular Force: Sick-leave and Medical Attention.
Part V.—Territorial Force: Pay and Allowances.
Part VI.—Territorial Force: Special Grants.
Part VII.—Rations and Forage.
Part VIII.—Hire of Motor-vehicles.
Part IX.—Compensation for Injuries.
Part X.—Miscellaneous.

(c) The Financial Instructions and Allowance Regulations for the New Zealand Military Forces made on the 28th day of July, 1925, and published in the Gazette No. 56 of the 6th August, 1925, together with all regulations amending the same are hereby revoked.

2. (a) In these regulations, unless a contrary intention appears,—

“Regular Force” means and includes the N.Z. Staff Corps, Royal N.Z. Artillery, N.Z. Permanent Staff, N.Z. Army Ordnance Corps, N.Z. Army Pay Corps, N.Z. Permanent Army Service Corps, N.Z. Army Medical Corps, General Duty Section, and officers, W.O.s, N.C.O.s, and men on short-term appointments :

“Member” means and includes an officer, warrant officer, non-commissioned officer, and soldier.

“Minister” means Minister of Defence.

“New Zealand regulations” means Regulations for the Military Forces of the Dominion of New Zealand 1927.

(b) A.D.M.S. means Assistant Director of Medical Services.
G.O.C. means General Officer Commanding.
C.G.S. means Chief of the General Staff.
A.G. means Adjutant-General.
Q.M.G. means Quartermaster-General.
D.G.M.S. means Director-General of Medical Services.
M.T. means Mechanical Transport.
N.C.O. means Non-commissioned Officer.
N.Z.A.N.S. means New Zealand Army Nursing Service.
N.Z.A.O.C. means New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps.
N.Z.P.S. means New Zealand Permanent Staff.
N.Z.P.A.S.C. means New Zealand Permanent Army Service Corps.
N.Z.S.C. means New Zealand Staff Corps.
O.C. means Officer Commanding.
R.N.Z.A. means Royal New Zealand Artillery.
S.D. means Service Dress.
V.A.D. means Members of the Voluntary Aid Detachment.
W.O. means Warrant Officer.

PART II.—REGULAR FORCE: PAY AND SPECIAL ALLOWANCES.

GENERAL.

3. (a) All persons appointed to the Regular Force shall draw pay and allowances appropriate to their rank from and including the date on which they commence duty.

(b) Appointment to temporary rank, but not to acting rank, shall qualify the holder for the (minimum) pay and allowances appropriate to the corresponding substantive rank, and as from the 1st April, 1942, to the increments thereof.

All service in a temporary rank, whether before or after the 1st April, 1942, shall be included in the necessary qualifying period for the increments which would have been payable had the rank held been substantive. Back-pay prior to the 1st April, 1942, will not be payable.

(c) On discharge pay will be issued for the day on which discharge takes effect.

4. An increment of pay shall be paid only on the recommendation of the A.G. or O.C. District certifying that the officer, warrant officer, non-commissioned officer, or man claiming the increment has reached the necessary standard of efficiency and that his conduct has in every way been satisfactory.

PAY OF OFFICERS.

5. The following shall be the annual rates of pay and incremental advancement by subdivisions for officers of the Regular Force:—

NOTES.—(a) (i) Any Warrant Officer, Class I, who is being paid at a higher rate than £360 per annum on his promotion to a commissioned rank, shall continue to receive such higher rate until he has qualified for the rate laid down in the second subdivision in the scale of pay for Lieutenants commissioned from Warrant Officer and N.C.O. ranks of the Regular Force.

(ii) A Warrant Officer, Class I, who is promoted to commissioned rank, shall continue to qualify for the increments to which he would have been entitled under paragraphs 6, 7, or 8, as though he had not been appointed to commissioned rank, if the rates for warrant officers are higher than those for the commissioned rank held.

(b) Paid personally to Cadets attending Imperial Colleges, but included in the maintenance allowance paid to Cadets attending the Royal Military College of Australia.

SHORT-SERVICE COMMISSIONS.

The following shall be the annual rates of pay to officers holding short-service commissions as from date of appointment :—

Lieut.-Colonel .. .. £665.
Major .. .. £540.
Captain .. .. £405.
Lieutenant .. .. £275 to £340 (according to qualifications).

Annual increments shall be paid in accordance with the scale provided for officers of the Regular Force.

QUARTERMASTER COMMISSIONS.

The following shall be the annual rates of pay to officers holding commissions as quartermasters as from date of appointment :—

PAY OF WARRANT OFFICERS, N.C.O.s, AND MEN, N.Z.P.S. AND N.Z.P.A.S.C.

6. The following shall be the rates of pay for warrant officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the New Zealand Permanent Staff and New Zealand Permanent Army Service Corps :—

NOTE.—(a) Payable only for the rank held on 31st March, 1933. Any member enlisted prior to 1st June, 1932, and married on or prior to 31st March, 1933, may continue to receive the married rate of pay for the rank he was holding on 31st March, 1933, until such time as he qualifies by promotion for a higher salary under the general-rates scale, provided that he is supporting his wife and/or children under eighteen years of age.