Leone Government should maintain the R.N.V.R. up to the level of its peace establishment as mobilised, any additional personnel and vessels being maintained by
the Admiralty.
Union of South Africa.
The Admiral y also mentioned that here the Dominion Government were paying for any services which they themselves explicitly authorized, but that the Admiralty were paying the rest, whether it was incurred in respect of the dog nee of the Union or generally.
Malaya.
In Singapore it was assumed that the Colonial Government were paying, since the Admiralty had received no claims, and presumably the Governor would not have raised the point if the Admiralty were already paying.
3, 46 a general principle the Admiralty view was
that a Colony which had established and maintained a R.H.V.R. force in peace should continue to be responsible for the cost of its maintenence in war, apart from any
considerations to the contrary,
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But contrary consideretions
might often be important; in particular, it wes right to look to the use to which the force was put and the Colony's capacity to pay. In the Admiralty view, the placing of the force at His Majesty' disposal did not in itself affect the incidence of coat and it was in that view thet Section 3 of the Colonial Naval Derence Act, 1931, had been framed to provide that nothing in that act or in any Order in Council mado under it should be taken to authorize the pegaent out of the revenues of the United Kingdom̃ of any expensen incurred in equipping or maintaining any vessel officers or men placed at the iisposal of His Majesty under the Act,
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