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

Statutory Rules

1980 No. 174

INTERIM DETERMINATION UNDER THE DEFENCE AMENDMENT ACT 19791

I, the Minister of State for Defence, hereby make the following Interim Determination under section 12 of the Defence Amendment Act 1979.

Dated this twenty-fourth day of June 1980.

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) the definition of “recreation leave”.

Post allowance

 2. Regulation 9A of the Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations is amended by:

• (a)

  omitting paragraph (7) (a) and substituting the following paragraph:

  • “(a)

    takes a period of recreation leave or special leave;”; and

• (b)

  inserting after sub-regulation (8) the following sub-regulation:

• “(8A)

  For the purposes of sub-regulation (8), recreation leave means recreation leave credited to a member under clause 5, 6, 7, 9, 13, 14 or 15 of Determination 2601, Recreation Leave, made under section 58B of the Defence Act 1903.”.

Recreation leave bonus

• 3.

  Regulation 14A of the Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations is amended by omitting paragraphs (3) (a) and (3) (b) and substituting the following paragraph:

  • “(a)

    in the case of a member who is not a trainee — the number ascertained by dividing the number of days recreation leave credited to the member on the leave credit day applicable to that leave year by the number 5;”.

Interpretation

 4. Regulation 14C of the Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1) the definition of “week” and substituting the following definition:

“ ‘week’, in relation to a period of recreation leave taken by or granted to a member, means a period of 5 days recreation leave not including Saturdays, Sundays or public holidays.”.

Application

 5. The Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations as amended by this Interim Determination apply in relation to service by a member on or after 1 July 1980.

Notes

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 27 June 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