Warrant Engineer, R.N.R. — Establishment of rank. Pay, &c.

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Admiralty Order in Council No. 33.

9 July 1903.

Whereas by an Act passed in the 26th and 27th years of Her late Majesty's reign, Chapter 69, entitled the Officers of Royal Naval Reserve Act, 1863, as amended by an Act passed in the 35th and 36th years of Her reign, Chapter 73, entitled the Merchant Shipping Act, 1872, it is enacted that the Admiralty shall have power to appoint duly qualified persons to form a Reserve of Officers for Your Majesty's Fleet:

And whereas we deem it expedient, under the authority conferred on us by the aforesaid Acts, to establish a rank of Royal Naval Reserve Officer to be entitled Warrant Engineer :

We beg leave humbly to recommend that Your Majesty may be pleased by your Order in Council to sanction the establishment of this rank accordingly, the officers thereof to be generally subject to the Regulations of the Royal Naval Reserve, and to be entitled to the undermentioned rates of pay and allowances, viz. : —

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Annual retainer (to cease at age of 50) :-	15
Life Pension (to commence at age of 60, or to be payable at the discretion of the Admiralty, either permanently or temporarily, to a Warrant Engineer who, before reaching the age of 60, may be pronounced upon medical examination to be wholly and permanently incapacitated from earning his livelihood, provided that such incapacity is not due to his own imprudence or misconduct).	15
Outfit allowance : — when called up for training (Not payable more than once in five years.) when called out for service in the Fleet in emergency	10 25
Pay when called out for service in the fleet and when under training in addition to retainer and to such allowances for particular duties as are payable to officers of corresponding rank in Your Majesty's Navy -	8s. 6d. a day or Ł155 2s. 6d. a year
Allowances in lieu of lodging and subsistence if required to live on shore when called out for service, or when under training	Not exceeding 6s. a day.

If wounded or injured while serving in the Fleet to be entitled to the same pensions and allowances as Warrant Officers of the Royal Navy would receive for a similar wound or injury, and if killed or drowned on service their widows and children to be entitled to the same pensions and compassionate allowances as the widows and children of Warrant Officers of the Royal Navy.

The Lords Commissioners of Your Majesty's Treasury have signified their concurrence in these proposals.

N. 9959 / 1903.

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