Military Financial Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1964. No. 89.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1956.*

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Defence Act 1903-1956.

Dated this seventeenth day of July, 1964.

E. W. WOODWARD

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for the Army.

 

Amendments of the Military Financial Regulations. 

1. After regulation 106 of the Military Financial Regulations the following regulations are inserted:—

Removal in anticipation of termination of service.

“106a.—(1.) Subject to this Division and to such conditions as the Military Board determines, a member may be removed, at the expense of the Department, to a place to which he would be entitled to be removed if he were eligible for removal under regulation 107 of these Regulations—

(a) upon being posted, within the period of twelve months immediately preceding the prescribed date, for service in a locality other than the locality in which his family is residing; or

(b) within the period of three months immediately preceding the prescribed date.

“(2.) A member is not, without the approval of the Military Board, entitled to be removed at the expense of the Department under the last preceding sub-regulation within a period of twelve months immediately following the date of his last removal at the expense of the Department.

“(3.) Where a member eligible for removal under sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation enters into a further engagement for service with the Permanent Military Forces before he is removed under that sub-regulation, he ceases to be so eligible for removal.

“(4.) In this regulation, ‘the prescribed date’, in relation to a member, means—

(a) the date on which the member is due to attain the retiring, age for his rank; or

(b) the date onwhich the member is due to complete the period of his engagement for service,

whichever occurs first.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 20th July, 1964.

  Statutory Rules 1961, No. 39, as amended by Statutory Rules 1961, Nos. 84, 100 and 129; 1962, Nos. 61 and 73; 1963, Nos. 9, 23, 62, 70, 75, 85, 90 and 150; and 1964, Nos.14, 17, 48, 56, 65 and 87

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“(5.) For the purposes of the last preceding sub-regulation, a member who has entered into a further engagement for service to commence immediately after the termination of the period of service on which he is serving shall not be taken to be due to complete the period of his engagement for service before the completion of the period of that further engagement.

Removal upon posting after re-engagement.

“106b.—(1.) Where a member who—

(a) has entered into a further engagement for service with the Permanent Military Forces to commence immediately after the completion of the period of service on which he was engaged; and

(b) had, before entering into that further engagement, been removed under the last preceding regulation,

is, after entering into the further engagement, first posted for service in a locality other than the locality in which his family are residing, being a posting in relation to which the member would, but for this regulation, be entitled to be removed under regulation 103 of these Regulations, the member may, subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, be removed to that locality at the expense of the Department under this regulation but is not entitled to be so removed under any other regulation in this Division.

“(2.) Where—

(a) at the time when the member is posted for service in the other locality, the family of the member are not residing in the locality from which they were removed under the last preceding regulation; and

(b) the expense of removing the member to the locality to which he is posted exceeds an amount equal to what would be the expense of removing the member to that locality if his family were still residing in the locality from which they were removed under the last preceding regulation,

the member is not entitled to be removed under the last preceding sub-regulation unless he pays to the Commonwealth an amount equal to the excess.”.

Storage of furniture and effects.

2. Regulation 110 of the Military Financial Regulations is amended by inserting in sub-regulation (2.), after the word “regulation”, the figure “106a,”.

Allowance for sale of furniture in lieu of a removal.

3. Regulation 124 of the Military Financial Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the words “other than a removal on termination of his service”; and

(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(3.) This regulation does not apply to or in relation to the removal of a member by virtue of the provisions of regulation 106a or regulation 107 of these Regulations.”.

Allowance for sate of motor vehicle.

4. Regulation 125 of the Military Financial Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting the words “other than a removal on termination of service”; and

 

(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(2.) This regulation does not apply to or in relation to the removal of a member by virtue of the provisions of regulation 106a or regulation 107 of these Regulations.”.

Reimbursement of medical expenses.

5. After regulation 155 of the Military Financial Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

“155a. Where a married member—

(a) is posted on long term duty in an oversea country; and

(b) incurs expenses for medical treatment in respect of a member of his family who is living with him in that country,

an amount equal to such part (if any) of those expenses as the Military Board determines is, subject to such conditions as the Military Board determines, payable to the member in respect of those expenses.”.

6. After regulation 214 of the Military Financial Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Aide-de-camp’s outfit allowance.

“214a.—.(1.) An allowance, called ‘aide-de-camp outfit allowance’, of such amount as the Military Board determines is, subject to such conditions as the Military Board determines, payable to an officer who is appointed aide-de-camp to the Governor-General.

“(2.) Aide-de-camp outfit allowance is not payable to an officer who is appointed honorary aide-de-camp to the Governor-General.”.

Regimental funds.

7. Regulation 249 of the Military Financial Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulations (4.) and (5.) and inserting in their stead the following sub-regulations:—

“(4.) A member is not eligible for appointment as a member of a regimental audit board unless he is fitted either by training or by experience to audit accounts and is not directly engaged in the management of any of the funds of the unit to be audited by the board.

“(5.) The regimental audit board of a unit, other than a unit approved by the Military Board under the next succeeding sub-regulation, shall be called together by the commanding officer of the unit twice in each financial year and shall, when so called together, audit the books and accounts of the regimental funds, unit canteen fund’s and mess funds of the unit.”.

8. The First Schedule to the Military Financial Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting after the word and figures—

“Regulation 155.”

the word and figures—

“Regulation 155a.”; and

(b) by inserting after the word and figures—

“Regulation 212.”

the word and figures—

“Regulation 214a.”.

 

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.