Defence Force Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1988 No. 3211

Defence Force Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Defence Act 1903.

Dated 24 November 1988.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Peter Morris

Minister of State for Industrial Relations

 

After Part XIII of the Defence Force Regulations the following Part is inserted:

“PART XIIIa—DELEGATIONS BY THE MINISTER

Delegations of power to make determinations

“72a. For the purposes of section 58e of the Act, the Minister may by instrument delegate to a Secretary, or Senior Executive Service officer, within the meaning of the Public Service Act 1922 the power under subsection 58b (1) of the Act to make determinations with respect to the following matters:

(a) the remuneration of members or cadets;

(b) the payment of allowances or other pecuniary benefits, not being allowances or benefits by way of remuneration, to or in respect of members or cadets including, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the payment of additional compensation to members of:

(i) the Emergency Forces; and

(ii) the Reserve Forces;

to whom compensation is payable under the Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees) Act 1971;

 

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(c) the payment of allowances or other pecuniary benefits to or in respect of members of the families of members or cadets;

(d) leave of absence and long service leave of members;

(e) the provision of other benefits to or in respect of members or cadets, or to or in respect of members of the families of members or cadets;

(f) the payment of allowances and expenses to or in respect of, and the provision of travelling facilities for, applicants for appointment or engagement as members in respect of attendance at an enlistment centre of the Defence Force or attendance for interview or examination;

(g) deductions from the remuneration of a member or cadet or from allowances or other pecuniary benefits referred to in paragraphs (b) and (c); and

(h) the meanings to be attributed to words and expressions used in existing determinations and future determinations made under section 58b of the Act, and the circumstances in which those meanings are to apply.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 2 December 1988.

2. Statutory Rules 1952 No. 29 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1988 No. 58 and see also Statutory Rules 1988 Nos. 58 and 89.

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