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SECTION I. EXTRA PAY. (a) For Casual Services. 1468. Authority.-Extra pay, subject to the following regulations, will be granted to officers, men, and boys of ships in commission when employed on extra duty, under the special orders and at the discretion of the Commander-in-Chief or Senior Officer present, who, however, is never to sanction such employment except when it is absolutely necessary. 2. Occasional Services.-Extra pay under Class I of the following table is not to be granted for occasional services, such as watering or towing a ship, taking off stores to another ship, or other similar temporary service, but only for work lasting some time which entails wear and tear of clothes, except as hereinafter may be provided. 3. Scale.-The following are the several rates of extra pay, and the circumstances in which it may be allowed :
Artisans shall include all men employed as such, whatever their ratings may be on the ship's books, vii.: as Carpenters, Sailmakers, Blacksmiths, Coopers, Armourers, Shipwrights, Plumbers, and Painters. 499
For recovery of articles, a bonus not exceeding �1. nor one-fourth the value of the article, may be given in lieu of payment by scale, of which bonus one-tenth is to be paid to the Attendant. When diving takes place for recovery of articles, a certificate should be inserted on the extra pay sub-voucher, stating whether blame was attributable to any officer or man for the loss, and if so, where the corresponding charge has been made against their pay in accordance with Article 1373. 4. When not entitled.-No officer or other person, except as herein expressly provided for, is entitled to extra pay in any of the foregoing circumstances 500 for work done in or directly for the ship to which he belongs, either as part complement or as supernumerary, or in which he may be borne for the express purpose of performing any given work, or for any work done in or for the tenders or boats of such ship. 5. Supernumeraries in Stationary Ships.-It being part of the ordinary duty of officers and men borne as supernumeraries in the general depots or stationary home ships when directed by the Commander-in-Chief to perform the various duties appertaining to a seaman's work in connection with masts, rigging, fitting out, and stores, &c., of ships in or out of commission, such services are not to be considered as extra duty carrying extra pay. Artisans so borne are to be similarly employed at their various trades without extra pay. 6. Natives.-Except where otherwise expressly provided, the rates of extra pay laid down in this and subsequent Articles are not to be paid to native ratings (Kroomen, Seedies, Goanese, &c.), employed in ships on foreign stations. The rates payable to such ratings will be fixed by the Admiralty, within the limits laid down for European ratings, at their discretion. 1469. Coaling.-When men or boys holding ratings not eligible for W.S.A. are employed in coaling their ships, they shall be paid extra pay of 1s. a day as compensation for the extra wear and tear of their clothing, on the certificate of the Captain that it was necessary to employ them on this service ; but the payments so made are not to exceed a total sum of 10s. to each man or boy in any one calendar year. 1470. Supernumeraries Coaling other Ships.-If any of the men referred to in Article 1468 clause 5, are employed in coaling, they are each to be paid at the rate of 6d. a day, provided they are not in receipt of working suit allowance ; but the seamen borne as supernumeraries in depots, &c., are not to be employed in coaling, except in cases of emergency, and then only with the express sanction of the Commander-in-Chief. 1471. Receiving Stores in Dockyards.-Engineer Sub-Lieutenants and warrant officers, when employed in dockyards in receiving and taking account of coal, fuel, or other bulky articles, shall receive Is. a day, which will be paid at the dockyard. 1472. Adjustment of Compasses.-Navigating Officers of general depots, employed swinging ships for the adjustment of their compasses, are to be paid for the same at the following rates :
2. When in exceptional circumstances Navigating Officers are employed in swinging ships other than their own, they are to be paid at the same rates. 1473. Chaplains doing another's Duty.-When a Chaplain is ordered to do the duty of another Chaplain in addition to his own, he shall receive for every day on which he so acts by order; whether in conducting services or religious ministration and visiting the. sick, the sum of 3s. extra pay. This allowance is not payable when a Chaplain does duty in or for a ship not allowed a Chaplain in her complement. 1474. Assisting in Clerical Duties.-The Captain may authorise the employment of any person competent to assist in the clerical duties of the ship, and the payment to him of extra pay at the rate of Is. 3d. a day, consisting of not 501 less than six hours' work, in any of the following cases, which must be stated on the extra pay form S. 9 :
1475. Work in Double Bottoms, &e.-Extra pay at the following rates is to be paid to all persons employed in scraping and repainting the double bottoms, the water-spaces, the foremost and aftermost portions of the wings or other closed spaces of steel ships, steel engine and boiler bearers, and also the store rooms and bilges of torpedo-boat destroyers, to which access is only obtained through manhole hatchways, viz. :
2. This allowance is not to be granted for scraping or repainting the open parts of steel ships for which working dresses are allowed. Should the work not be done satisfactorily, the extra payment is not to be made. 1476. Steaming in Tropics.-All stoker ratings and seamen under training in the stokehold, actually employed and doing duty when steam is up in the ship or in a steamboat, within the Tropics, or when within the Red Sea or Persian Gulf, between 1st April and 30th November inclusive, are entitled to extra pay equal to one-half the substantive pay of their ratings in addition to their full pay; but it shall not be paid for any time during which the fires are only banked, or when steam is only used for auxiliary purposes, such as electric lighting or condensing. 2. Surveying Ships.-All stoker ratings belonging to surveying ships, when employed in surveying, but not on ordinary passages, shall be also entitled to the above extra pay in the following circumstances : When between the Northern Tropic and latitude 30� North, between 15th June and 15th October inclusive, or between the Southern Tropic and latitude 30� South, between 15th December and 15th April inclusive. 3. Chief and other Engine-Room Artificers and Mechanicians are not eligible for this extra pay, nor are Kroomen or other Africans or Asiatics. 4. For the purposes of this Article, the substantive pay of a Stoker Petty Officer 2nd Class (O.S.) and Stoker 1st Class (Mech.) (O.S.) is to be calculated at 2s. 3d. and 2s. 1d. a day respectively. 1477. Acting as Stokers.-Men other than those holding stoker ratings (except seamen under training in the stokehold), also soldiers, or distressed British subjects, employed to act as stokers in a ship or in a steamboat, are to be paid for such duty 1s. a day, but while within the Tropics, or, between 1st April and 30th November inclusive, while within the Red Sea or Persian Gulf, 1s. 6d. a day in addition to their ordinary pay. 2. In selecting men to act as stokers, preference is to be given to those who have qualified in the course laid down in Appendix X., Part XVIII. 3. Petty officers, non-commissioned officers of marines, and boys are not to be so employed, unless their services are urgently required. 502 4. Natives.-Kroomen, native Africans, or Asiatics performing this duty, within or without the Tropics, and whether in ships or in steamboats, are to be paid extra pay at the rate of 5d. a day. 1478. Stokers in Instructional Torpedo Boats.-Stoker ratings employed in running torpedo boats for. educational or experimental purposes, for not less than six hours continuously, under conditions which do not entitle them to receive hard-lying money, are to be paid 4d. a day extra pay; but no extra pay is to be given to the officers or others of the crew on these occasions. 1479. Soldiers as Stokers, &e.-Soldiers are only to be employed as stokers, coal trimmers, or artisans when they volunteer, except in cases of emergency, and then only with the consent of the military Commanding Officer, and if the Army Medical Officer certifies that they are capable of performing the duty without injury to their health. Each case is to be specially reported to the Admiralty. They are on such occasions to be paid extra pay as follows :
2. Soldiers are not to be employed on duties which, through their lack of naval training, might place them in positions attended with risk to life or limb. 1480. Armourer's Work.-Seamen and marines employed to execute Armourer's work at the discretion of the Commander-in-Chief, or in a vacancy in the complement, under the authority of the Captain, are to be paid extra pay at the rates established under Class 1. To be eligible for employment, the men must have undergone the course of training specified in Article 403 and have been found efficient in armourer's work. 1481. Work in Mud or Water.-Seamen and marines employed at naval establishments upon work which entails their standing in mud or water are to receive an allowance of 6d. a day, in addition to any other allowances payable for the duty. 1482. Slinging and unslinging Hammocks.-An allowance of 6d. a day will be paid to every man employed in slinging and unslinging troop and Royal Marine hammocks at a victualling yard, provided he completes not less than 30 a day. 1483. Hammock-Men.-The Captain will take care that officers not provided with cabins pay to their hammock-men 2s. 6d. a month as a remuneration, or, when two are employed, 1s. 3d. a month each, the men providing their own brushes and soap. 2. In the case of men and boys employed as hammock-men to commissioned warrant officers and warrant officers not provided with cabins, they are to be paid the allowance laid down in clause 1, for the periods they are so employed. The names and ranks of the officers who have no cabins, and to whom the men or boys were appropriated for this duty should be shown. 1484. Collecting Absentees.-Each Master-at-Arms, Ship's Corporal, or person doing duty as Ship's Police, is to be paid 1s. 6d. a day whilst employed on shore collecting deserters or absentees, without reference to the length of his absence from the ship, and in addition to any subsistence and lodging allowance to which he may be entitled under Article 1508 or Article 1511. 503 1485. Cutting Firewood.-When firewood is cut for the use of the ship on a foreign station, extra pay as compensation for the labour, exposure, and wear and tear of clothing is to be paid, under the Captain's directions, to the men so employed at the rate of 6s. a fathom for the wood cut. Each fathom is by measurement to be 6 ft. by 6 ft. by 2 ft., or by weight 630 lb. The firewood is to be taken on charge by the Engineer Officer, the necessary particulars to be inserted in the voucher. 2. The necessary implements for cutting it are to be obtained from the Carpenter, and returned to him when done with. 1486. Docking or Undocking.-In cases in which the duty of docking or undocking one of His Majesty's ships in a colonial or private dock abroad falls upon the senior Carpenter rank or rating of the ship he may be granted a gratuity not exceeding �1. for each docking or undocking, on the certificate of the Commanding Officer that the operation has been successfully carried out. (b) Hard-lying Money, Climate Pay, anal Field Allowance. 1487. Hard-lying Money.-All officers and men (including those belonging to record parties and those appropriated for service in any particular vessel) are entitled to hard-lying money at the rates set forth in the following schedule whilst actually living on board ships and vessels in the circumstances specified, viz. :
2. In cases where the period of living on board is less than 24 consecutive hours, hard-lying money for one day will only be granted provided the officers or men have to sleep on board the ship. 3. The officer in command of navigating parties or of a ship under trial shall receive, in addition to hard-lying money, the established sea-going command money of his rank. 1488. Climate Pay.-Officers and men serving in the river gunboats, sloops, and other small vessels in the China rivers, and in ships employed in * Applicable also at Admiralty discretion to vessels for auxiliary services, e.g., dredgers. 504 the Persian Gulf, may be paid during the months of June, July, August and September climate pay at the following rates :
payment to be restricted to Europeans. 2. For the purposes of this Article, Shanghai, Macao, Ningpo, and Wenchau may be considered as in China rivers, and the eastward limit of the Persian Gulf as an imaginary line drawn from Ras al Hadd on the Arabian coast to the point where the meridian of 61� 36` E. cuts the northern shore. 3. Payment may be continued to officers and men while sick within the localities during the months stated. 4. When vessels are entering a river payment is to commence on the date on which they are first anchored or are moored to a buoy. The dates of first anchoring or mooring in and finally leaving a river and of crossing the line referred to in paragraph 2 are to be noted in the ship's ledger in the list of passages. The allowance is not payable whilst vessels are on passage between the mouths of rivers. 1489. Field Allowances to naval and marine officers, seamen, and marines employed in military operations on shore are to be paid according to the following scale under the authority of the Commander-in-Chief. 2. Payments may be made in advance to officers of a sum equal to one month's allowance, repayment of which is to be required in the event of an officer leaving the force for his own convenience before the expiration of that period. 3. These allowances are not to be made to officers, seamen, or marines provided with quarters at the public expense, nor is lodging money payable in addition thereto.
1490. Living under Canvas.-When naval or marine officers and men are landed for field training, service at rifle ranges, or other duty which necessitates their living under canvas, but which does not come within the definition of military service, they may be paid allowances calculated at half the rates of extra pay laid down in Article 1468, clause 3, Class 1. The authority of the Commander-in-Chief is to be obtained in each case before payment is made,, and it is to be forwarded into office with the ledger on which the allowance is credited. (c) General Instructions. 1491. Extraordinary Service.-Any case of an officer. or man being employed on extraordinary service not herein provided for, which, in the 505 opinion of the Commander-in-Chief, may give him an equitable claim to extra remuneration, or for payment at more than the usual rates, is to be referred to the Admiralty for decision. 2. Captains are to exercise great discretion in forwarding applications for extra pay in cases where the grant thereof by the Commander-in-Chief is not provided for by these Regulations. 3. Work for Private Individuals.-Extra pay is not to be paid to officers or men for work performed for private individuals in rendering salvage services, or assistance to a ship in distress, without special Admiralty authority ; and the circumstances of each case of this nature, in which a Captain may consider that extra remuneration should be granted, are to be fully reported for consideration and decision. 4. Other Governments or Departments.-Extra pay to officers and men for work performed for, or services rendered to, other Governments or Departments, is to be paid according to the rates and regulations of their proper Departments, and, whenever practicable, by the Accountant Officers of their ships. This rule is to hold good whether the amount paid is ultimately recoverable or not from the Government or Department for which the work is performed. 5. Extra pay to officers and men, as well as to soldiers, for other services than those appertaining to naval, victualling, and medical establishments at home and abroad, is to be paid by the Accountant Officer of the ship in which they are borne. 6. Separate schedules (form S. 9) are to be made out for persons belonging to different ships, in which not only the nature of the work performed, but the grounds on which it has been authorised to be paid for as an extra duty, are invariably to be stated. These lists are to be made out in duplicate ; one to accompany the quarterly ledger, the other to be retained by the Accountant Officer. 7. Approval.-All extra pay lists are to be approved by the officer ordering the extra duty, or by the senior officer present, except in the cases provided for in Articles 1468, clause 3, Class III., 1474-1479 and 1481-1485, when the Captain's approval will suffice. 8. The order of the Commander-in-Chief, Senior Officer, or Captain, as the case may be, for the employment of persons on extra pay, or a copy, is to accompany the schedule, or the substance of the order is to be stated thereon. 9. Day, how reckoned.-With regard to extra pay, the day is to be reckoned as follows :
10. Unless otherwise directed, proportionate amounts are to be paid for the adjustment of broken periods. See 1591 clause 5 (Extra Pay in Shore Establishments). 506 SECTION II. COMMITTEE ALLOWANCES. 1492. Full-Pay Officers away from Ship.-Officers on full pay, employed on committees, or on special duties by the Admiralty, at a distance from their ships, will be paid their actual travelling expenses and lodging and subsistence allowance as laid down in Chapter XL. 2. Full-Pay Officers at their Ports.-Officers receiving full pay while employed as members of committees under the Admiralty at the port where their ships may be, or at their place of residence, are not to be paid the daily allowance for lodging and subsistence, but only the allowance ire lieu of provisions, as under Article 1517. 1493. Half-Pay Officers.-Officers on half pay, employed as members of committees under the Admiralty, will be paid
Whenever practicable, advantage should be taken of the obligation imposed on railway companies to convey officers proceeding on service under written orders, at three-fourths of ordinary fares. 2. Officers on half pay while employed on special duties under the Admiralty will be paid in accordance with these Regulations, the days of employment on special service being taken as answering to those of attendance on committees. 3. Officers on half pay, when called upon to give evidence before committees assembled at a distance from their residences, will be repaid their actual travelling expenses, and receive the daily allowance, as specified in Article 1506, for lodging and subsistence. 4. Retired Officers employed on duties similar to those mentioned in this Article will be paid under these Regulations, receiving the difference between full and retired pay. 5. All claims under this Chapter are to be made by the respective officers in detail, and in the case of employment on a committee, the claim of each officer must be certified by the president or chairman, as to the number of days and the dates on which the officer actually attended a meeting, or was employed on special duties connected with the committee. 507 ^ back to top ^ |
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