Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1980 No. 342

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903, THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910 AND THE AIR FORCE ACT 19231

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Defence Act 1903, the Naval Defence Act 1910 and the Air Force Act 1923.

Dated this twenty-seventh day of November 1980.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

D. J. KILLEN

Minister of State for Defence

Amendments of the Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations2

Interpretation

 1. Regulation 4 of the Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1) —

“ ‘category MS member’ means, for the purposes of regulation 19, a male member who maintains a home for his dependants and is prevented by the exigencies of the service from residing in that home;”.

Rations and quarters charge

 2. Regulation 19 of the Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations is amended —

• (a)

  by omitting paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (5) and substituting the following paragraph:

  • “(a)

    being —

    • (i)

      a category M member who is prevented from residing in the home of that member by the exigencies of the service; or

    • (ii)

      a category MS member,

 lives in in service accommodation;”;

• (b)

  by omitting paragraph (aa) of sub-regulation (5); and

• (c)

  by inserting in paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (5) “or Antarctic Allowance” after “allowance”.

Notes

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 4 December 1980.

2. Statutory Rules 1973 No. 100 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1980 No. 1 and see also