Defence Determination, Conditions of Service Amendment (Recreation leave) Determination 2018 (No. 23) (Cth)

Defence Determination, Conditions of Service Amendment (Recreation leave) Determination 2018 (No. 23)

I, ELIZABETH ANNE SISLEY, Acting Assistant Secretary, People Policy and Employment Conditions, make the following Determination under section 58B of the Defence Act 1903.

Dated 29 May 2018

E A SISLEY

Acting Assistant Secretary
People Policy and Employment Conditions
Defence People Group

Contents

1   Name   2

2   Commencement   2

3   Authority   2

4   Schedules   2

Schedule 1—Amendments   3

Defence Determination 2016/19, Conditions of service   3

1  Name

This instrument is Defence Determination, Conditions of Service Amendment (Recreation leave) Determination 2018 (No. 23).

2  Commencement

This instrument commences on 31 May 2018.

3  Authority

This instrument is made under section 58B of the Defence Act 1903.

4  Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Defence Determination 2016/19, Conditions of service

1	Subsection 5.4.34.1 (Expiration of recreation leave credits ('leave lapsing'))
Omit the subsection, substitute:
1.	A member’s leave lapses in accordance with the following table, but not before the last pay day of the leave year commencing 1 July 2018.

Item	Leave	Expiration time
1.	For leave that accrued up to 30 June 2016	Recreation leave expires three years after the end of the leave year in which the member accrued it.
2.	For leave that accrues on or after 1 July 2016	If a recreation leave credit that is more than 90 days on the lapsing date, then the amount of recreation leave credit that exceeds 90 days expires on the lapsing date. The lapsing date is the last payday before 30 June in the relevant year.