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

Statutory Rules 1982 No. 561

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Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations2 (Amendment)

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 23 February 1982.

KEVIN NEWMAN

Minister of State for Administrative Services for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence

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General rates of salary payable to members

Regulation 8 of the Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting in sub-paragraph (1) (b) (iii) “or (5)” after “(1a)”;

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (2) “or (3)” and substituting “, (3) or (5)”; and

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

“(5) Where, by virtue of the operation of the relevant Service Financial Regulation, salary is payable to a member on promotion to, or enlistment with, a rank specified in Part II or III of Schedule 7 at a rate other than the lower or lowest rate specified in that Part in relation to the rank held by the member, the member shall be deemed on promotion to, or enlistment with, that rank to have completed a period of service in that rank equal to the sum of—

(a) the period specified in whichever of column 1, 2 or 3 of that Part is applicable to the member, opposite to the rate at which salary is so payable to the member; and

 

(b) any period of less than 12 months during which the member is, by virtue of an approval by the Minister under the relevant sub-regulation, to be taken to have been in receipt of salary at that last mentioned rate.

“(6) In sub-regulation (5) —

“relevant Service Financial Regulation” means—

(a) in the case of a member of the Navy—regulation 31a of the Naval Financial Regulations;

(b) in the case of a member of the Army—regulation 12ba of the Military Financial Regulations; and

(c) in the case of a member of the Air Force—regulation 549aof the Air Force Regulations;

“relevant sub-regulation” means–

(a) in the case of a member of the Navy—sub-regulation 32 (4) of the Naval Financial Regulations;

(b) in the case of a member of the Army—sub-regulation 12bc(5) of the Military Financial Regulations; and

(c) in the case of a member of the Air Force— sub-regulation 549b(5) of the Air Force Regulations.”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 4 March 1982.

2. Statutory Rules 1973 No. 100 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1982 No. 53 and see also