Defence Force Discipline Amendment (Prescribed Service Offences) Regulation 2015 (Cth)

Defence Force Discipline Amendment (Prescribed Service Offences) Regulation 2015

Select Legislative Instrument No. 131, 2015

I, the Honourable Paul de Jersey AC QC, Administrator of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation.

Dated 06 August 2015

Paul de Jersey

Administrator

By His Excellency’s Command

Kevin Andrews

Minister for Defence

Contents

1............ Name.................................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement.................................................................................. 1

3............ Authority............................................................................................ 1

4............ Schedules............................................................................................ 1

Schedule 1—Amendments                                                                            2

Defence Force Discipline Regulations 1985                                              2

1Name

This is the Defence Force Discipline Amendment (Prescribed Service Offences) Regulation 2015.

2Commencement

(1)Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1.  The whole of this instrument	The day after this instrument is registered.	11 August 2015

Note:This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

(2)Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Defence Force Discipline Act 1982.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 Force Discipline Regulations 1985

1  Paragraphs 44(a) and (b)

Repeal the paragraphs, substitute:

                    (a)  a service offence that is punishable by imprisonment for more than 2 years, other than:

                             (i)  an offence against subsection 43(1) or section 47C, 47P, 47Q, 48 or 52 of the Act; or

                            (ii)  an offence that is an ancillary offence in relation to an offence referred to in subparagraph (i);

(b) an offence against section 18, 36, 39 or 58 of the Act.