Military Financial Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

 

1977 No. 141

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903.*

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.

Dated this nineteenth day of August, 1977.

JOHN R. KERR

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

D. J. KILLEN

Minister of State for Defence.

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Amendments of the Military Financial Regulations 

District allowance.

1. Regulation 41 of the Military Financial Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (4b) the words “ district allowance ” and substituting the words “ district allowances ”;

(b) by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (4b) the words “ the first column ” and substituting the word and figure “ column 1 ”;

(c) by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (4b) the words “ the first column ” and substituting the word and figure “ column 1 ”;

(d) by omitting from sub-regulation (4b) the words “ so specified in the following table ” and substituting the words “ specified opposite that grade in whichever of column 2, 3 or 4 of that table is applicable to the member ”;

(e) by omitting the table in sub-regulation (4b) and substituting the following table:—

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* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 23 August 1977.

  Statutory Rules 1966, No. 35 as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Military Financial Regulations see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1977, No. 3 and see also Statutory Rules 1977, Nos. 3, 13, 36, 90, 102 and 140.

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Grade	Married member living out—rate per day	Unmarried member living out—rate per day	Member living in—rate per day
$	$	$
1..................................................................................................................	0.85	0.44	0.31
2..................................................................................................................	1.53	0.79	0.55
3..................................................................................................................	2.47	1.34	0.94
4..................................................................................................................	3.42	1.97	1.38
5..................................................................................................................	4.47	2.63	1.84
6..................................................................................................................	5.59	3.42	2.39

and

(f) by omitting sub-regulation (4d) and substituting the following sub-regulation:—

“ (4d) Where a locality classified for the purposes of district allowances under regulation 102 of the Public Service Regulations is removed from the list referred to in that regulation, this regulation applies to a member—

(a) who, immediately before that removal, resided in an isolated district that comprised that locality;

(b) to whom district allowance has been paid or is payable in respect of his residence in that district during a period immediately preceding that removal; and

(c) who continues to reside in that district after that removal, as if that locality had not been removed from that list until the expiration of—

(d) 1 year after that removal; or

(e) the period during which the member continued to reside in that district after that removal,

whichever is the sooner, and the rate of district allowance payable to the member had been the rate ascertained in accordance with this regulation as in force immediately before that removal.”.

Application.

2. The Military Financial Regulations as amended by regulation 1 apply in relation to service by members after 1 June 1977.