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

Statutory Rules

1979 No. 306

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 nineteenth day of December 1979.

 

D. J. KILLEN

Minister of State for Defence

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AMENDMENTS OF THE DEFENCE FORCE (SALARIES) REGULATIONS2

Extra risk allowance

1. Regulation 18 of the Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting in sub-regulation (1) “, (3)” after “sub-regulations (2)”;

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (2) “The amount of extra risk allowance” and substituting “Subject to sub-regulation (3), the amount of extra risk allowance”;

(c) by omitting from paragraph (2) (b) “$150” and substituting “$250”; and

(d) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:

“(3) Where the amount calculated in accordance with paragraph (2) (a) exceeds the amount specified in paragraph (2) (b), the approving authority may approve the payment of an additional amount of extra risk allowance to a member, not exceeding the amount of the excess, where he considers that such additional amount is reasonable having regard to:

(a) the age, rank and nature of the duties of the member;

(b) the nature of the policy and the commencement and maturity dates of the policy;

(c) the value of the policy;

(d) the basic premium and the extra risk premium of the policy paid by the member;

(e) the factors which caused the extra risk premium to be applied to the policy by the insurer; and

 

(f) the basic premium and the extra risk premium of the policies of life insurance offered by other insurers.

“(4) The Minister may appoint—

(a) an officer who holds the rank of Captain in the Navy, Colonel in the Army, Group Captain in the Air Force or a higher rank; or

(b) a person holding or performing the duties of an office in the Australian Public Service the minimum or only rate of salary applicable to which equals or exceeds the minimum rate of salary applicable to an office of Clerk Class 10, in the Third Division of the Australian Public Service,

to be an approving authority for the purposes of sub-regulation (3).”.

Application

2. The Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations as amended by paragraph 1 (c) apply in relation to service by a member on or after 1 July 1979.

Transitional

3. Regulation 18 of the Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations shall be deemed to have had effect in relation to the service of a member during the financial year commencing on 1 July 1978 and ending on 30 June 1979 as if the amount prescribed in paragraph (2) (b) of that regulation had been $157.

Application

4. The Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations, as amended by paragraphs 1 (a), 1 (b) and 1 (d), apply in relation to service by a member on or after 7 June 1979.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 8 January 1980.

2. Statutory Rules 1973 No. 100 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1979 No. 4 and see also