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

Statutory Rules

1980No. 44

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 March 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

Pay of members other than officers and trainees

 1. Regulation 8 of the Defence Force (Reserves) (Financial) Regulations is amended —

• (a)

  by inserting after sub-regulation (1B) the following sub-regulation:

  • “(1BA)

    Where the Minister determines under sub-regulation 31 (5) of the Naval Financial Regulations, 12B (5) of the Military Financial Regulations and 549 (5) of the Air Force Regulations that a pay level specified in Part I of Schedule 5 is appropriate to a class of soldiers or sailors or a mustering, the number of years of service in a rank specified in Part II of Schedule 5 of a member who —

    • (a)

      on or after the date of effect of that determination is included in a class or mustering the pay level for which is included in that determination; and

    • (b)

      immediately before inclusion in that mustering held that rank, but was included in a class of soldiers, sailors or airmen determined by the Minister to be a class to which sub-regulation 12BA (4) of the Military Financial Regulations, 31A (3) of the Naval Financial Regulations or 549A (2) of the Air Force Regulations applies;

  shall be deemed to have been increased from the date of his inclusion in that class or mustering, where the number of years of service applicable for the purposes of sub-regulation 12 (5) to the pay level applicable to that class or mustering, exceeds the number of years of service applicable to the class referred to in paragraph (b), by a period equal to that excess number of years.”; and

• (b)

  by inserting in sub-regulation (1F) “(1BA),” after “(1B),”.

Application

 2. The Defence Force (Reserves) (Financial) Regulations as amended by clause 1 apply in relation to an inclusion in a mustering or class of soldiers or sailors to which sub‑regulation 8 (1BA) applies, that occurs on or after 1 February 1980.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 14 March 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