Defence Force (Reserves) (Financial) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1980 No. 154

INTERIM DETERMINATION UNDER THE DEFENCE AMENDMENT ACT 19791

I, the Minister of State for Administrative Services acting for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence, hereby make the following Interim Determination under section 12 of the Defence Amendment Act 1979.

Dated this sixth day of June 1980.

J. E. MCLEAY

Minister of State for Administrative Services

for and on behalf of the

Minister of State for Defence

AMENDMENTS OF THE DEFENCE FORCE (RESERVES) (FINANCIAL) REGULATIONS2

Interpretation

 Regulation 2 of the Defence Force (Reserves) (Financial) Regulations is amended by:

• (a)

  inserting in sub-regulation (1) the following definition:

  “ ‘legal officer’ means an officer who is a barrister or solicitor or barrister and solicitor of the High Court or of the Supreme Court of a State or Territory;”; and

• (b)

  omitting from sub-regulation (1) the definition of ‘reserve service’ and substituting the following:

  “ ‘reserve service’ means service rendered by a member, other than service —

  • (a)

    in respect of which he is entitled to be paid salary under the Defence (Salaries) Regulations; or

  • (b)

    rendered by a legal officer during a period not forming part of a period of service which he is obliged to render in order to fulfil his training commitment and being a period during which he would otherwise be engaged in his private professional capacity between the hours of 9 o’clock in the morning and 5 o’clock in the evening on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday;”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 20 June 1980.

2. Statutory Rules 1976 No. 16 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1980 No. 10 and see also