Admiralty Orders in Council. No. 108

10 May 1905.

N.

Whereas by existing regulations the payment of Training Fees to Officers of Your Majesty's Royal Naval Reserve has been made on the plan of the whole fee being paid in advance for the calendar year :

And whereas, in view of the varying dates of completion of Naval Training, and the varying duration of further periods of Service in the Fleet, we consider it desirable that proportionate payments of the Training Fees should be made in future in the manner shown in the accompanying schedule of regulations :

We beg leave humbly to recommend that Your Majesty may be graciously pleased by Your Order in Council to authorise us to amend the regulations accordingly.

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

69. — An officer on completing his training and obtaining the necessary certificate is entitled to be paid for the unexpired portion of the current calendar year a proportionate part of the annual training fee due to the rank (not acting) held by the officer on the date of completing his training. * He will also be paid, without obtaining a Test Certificate, his full training fee for the subsequent calendar year, if he remains on the Active List, at any time after the 1st of January of the year, at the rate due to the rank (not acting) held by him on the 1st of January.

2. — In each further subsequent calendar year so long as he remains on the Active List the officer will be paid his training fee (1) on the production of a Test Certificate {see Article 44) for drill performed in that year, or obtained under Article 45, or Clause 3 of this Article, (2) on the production of a Gunnery or Torpedo Course Certificate, or (3) on production of satisfactory certificate for service in H.M. Ships under Article 46, and he may be paid at any time after the 1st of January of the year. The rate of fee to be paid on such certificates of service will be determined by the rank (not acting) held by the officer on the 1st of January.

* This will apply to Officers appointed for 12 months’ training after the issue of the revised regulations.

3. — An officer promoted to higher rank will become entitled to a proportionate part of the difference between the Training Fee to which he was entitled on the completion of training or on the 1st of January and the training fee due to his higher rank, from the date of his seniority, except in case of a sub-Lieutenant who has held acting rank, where the date of confirmation will be taken.

Similarly in cases in which the payment of the higher training fee of £25 is deferred, under Article 68 (3), until an officer has passed a satisfactory Gunnery course, a proportionate part of the extra £5 will be paid for the remainder of the year in which the course is undergone, to date from the completion of course.

4. — In cases where the Admiralty are satisfied that owing to active employment in his profession, or to long service abroad, an officer has been unable to put in his drill with annual regularity, he will, on obtaining a Test Certificate within four years from the termination of the year in which he last obtained a Test Certificate, be allowed to draw his training fees for back years.

5. — If he fails to perform his drill and obtain a Test Certificate within such period, all training fees for that period, not already earned by a Test Certificate, will be forfeited, and he will, if he eventually obtains a Test Certificate, only be entitled to draw his fee for the then current year.

6. — Officers undergoing further service in the Fleet under Article 66 will not be paid training fees in respect of the years during which they are so employed. Proportionate parts of the annual fee will be stopped for broken periods of a year.

7. — Officers called upon by Notice (R.V. 053) to serve in the Royal Navy at time of mobilisation, will not be paid training fees in respect of the time during which they are so employed. They will be considered as serving from the date on which Navy pay accrues to them, and proportionate parts of the annual fee will be stopped for broken periods of a year.

N. 6290 / 1905.

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