Repairs and Defects 424 Section II – Docking 430 Section III – Alterations and Additions 432 APPENDICES Subject Appendix No. Pages
1. Regulations relating to the possession of Private Arms by Officers and Sailors 436
2. Dispersal of Unlawful Assemblies Extracts from relevant Acts 443
3. Forms of Release from Claims for use In connection with Service Aircraft 450
4. Form for submitting full description of Inventions 454
5. List of Financial Documents 455
6. Standard Form of Salvage Agreement 464 CONCORDANCES Subject Concordance No. page
1. Overall Chapterwise Concordance from Old Regs Navy to New Regs Navy 469
2. Regulationwise Concordance from New Regs;
Navy to Old Regs Navy 471 RECORD OF AMENDMENTS Sl.No. No.of & Subject of the Authority Initials & Date Regulation Amended
CHAPTER 1 GENERAL REGULATIONS
0101. Observance and Enforcement of the Regulations, etc., Every officer shall make himself acquainted with and shall duly observe and obey, and so far as he is able enforce the due execution of the Navy Act, the Regulations made there under and all orders issued by the Government, the Chief of the Naval Staff, Administrative Authority or his superior officer, and shall further conform himself in all respects to the established customs and practices of the Indian Navy.
0102. Promulgation of Navy Order. The Commanding Officer, shall ensure that any new orders concerning the ship’s company are read to their sailors by the divisional officers and copies are displayed in some accessible place for at least a week. When such orders affect particular duties, care is to be taken to ensure that the sailors concerned are thoroughly instructed as to their contents.
0103. General Application of Regulations. Although for convenience of reference these regulations are divided into chapters, it shall be distinctly understood that every direction contained therein shall be considered as applicable to all whom it may concern, notwithstanding that it may appear in a chapter addressed to a particular class of officers.
0104. Benefits may be Varied or Cancelled. Except where provision is, or may hereafter be, expressly made to the contrary, no person shall be entitled to claim as a right any promotion emolument, retired pay, pension or other benefit conferred by any provision of these or other regulations for the Government of the Indian Navy in the event of such provision being at any time varied or cancelled.
0105. Conduct to be Observed. All Naval personnel are to conduct themselves with the utmost respect to their superior officers and with strict obedience to their orders.
They are at all times to discharge their duty with zeal and alacrity, and so far as circumstances admit, to assist all officers in the duties they have to perform. They should on all occasions strive to promote the welfare of the Navel service, and by the good order and regularity of their conduct show an example to those whom may be subject to their Command.
0106. Conduct to be Avoided. (1) All naval personnel are to discountenance and endeavour to repress all cursing, swearing, drunkenness and dissolute conduct. They are to abstain from gaming, rioting, quarrelling and from abusive or irritative language, especially to subordinates and are at all times to exert their influence against all that tends to the disparagement of religion and the encouragement of vice and immorality.
(2) No naval personnel shall engage in any money-lending, book-making or betting business, either on their own account or as agents for others, nor shall they act as agents in Indian Naval Ships or establishments for any commercial undertaking.
0107. Conflicting Orders. If an officer should receive from his superior an order which he deems at variance with his obedience to any regulation in these or other regulations, or with any particular order that may have been issued by the Government of India or other superior officer, he is to represent orally or in writing if it does not require immediate obedience, such contrariety to the officer from whom he received it. If after such representation, that officer shall still direct him to obey the order, he is to do so, but if he thinks it necessary he may report the circumstances, as the case may require, though his Commanding officer to the Chief of the Naval Staff or to the Government to which every officer has the right of ultimate appeal through the proper channel. See regulation 3701.