Air Force Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1977 No. 142

REGULATIONS UNDER THE AIR FORCE ACT 1923.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Air Force Act 1923.

Dated this nineteenth day of August 1977.

JOHN R. KERR

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

D. J. KILLEN

Minister of State for Defence.

Amendments of the Air Force Regulations 

District allowance.

1. Regulation 614 of the Air Force Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (a) of the definition of “ district allowance locality ” in sub-regulation (1) the words “ district allowance is ” and substituting the words “ district allowances are ”;

(b) by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (4b) the words “ district allowance ” and substituting the words “ district allowances ”;

(c) by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (4b) the words “ the first column ” and substituting the word and figure “ column 1 ”;

(d) by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (4b) the words “ the first column ” and substituting the word and figure “ column 1 ”;

(e) by omitting from sub-regulation (4b) the words “ so specified in the following table ” and substituting the words “ specified opposite that grade in whichever of column 2, 3 or 4 of that table is applicable to the member ”;

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 23 August 1977.

  Statutory Rules 1927, No. 161 as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Air Force Regulations see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1977, No. 5 and see also Statutory Rules 1977, Nos. 5, 38 and 129.

(f) by omitting the table in sub-regulation (4b) and substituting the following table:—

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Grade	Married member living out—rate per day	Unmarried member living out—rate per day	Member living in—rate per day
$	$	$
1............................................................	0.85	0.44	0.31
2............................................................	1.53	0.79	0.55
3............................................................	2.47	1.34	0.94
4............................................................	3.42	1.97	1.38
5............................................................	4.47	2.63	1.84
6............................................................	5.59	3.42	2.39

and

(g) by omitting sub-regulation (4d) and substituting the following sub-regulation:—

“ (4d) Where a locality classified for the purposes of district allowances under regulation 102 of the Public Service Regulations is removed from the list referred to in that regulation, this regulation applies to a member—

(a) who, immediately before that removal, resided in an isolated district that comprised that locality;

(b) to whom district allowance has been paid or is payable in respect of his residence in that district during a period immediately preceding that removal; and

(c) who continues to reside in that district after that removal,

as if that locality had not been removed from that list until the expiration of—

(d) 1 year after that removal; or

(e) the period during which the member continued to reside in that district after that removal,

whichever is the sooner, and the rate of district allowance payable to the member had been the rate ascertained in accordance with this regulation as in force immediately before that removal.”.

Application.

2.