Military Financial Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1982 No. 1831

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Military Financial Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR DEFENCE, hereby make the following Interim Determination under section 12 of the Defence Amendment Act 1979.

Dated 17 July 1982.

IAN SINCLAIR

Minister of State for Defence

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1. The Military Financial Regulations are amended by omitting from Part II the heading “Division 4—Higher Duties Allowance”.

Repeal

2. Regulation 31 of the Military Financial Regulations is repealed.

Attendance allowance of member of court martial, &c.

3. Regulation 209 of the Military Financial Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (5) and substituting the following sub-regulations:

“(5) An allowance under sub-regulation (1) is not payable to a member in respect of—

(a) a day for which the member is eligible for pay under the Defence Force (Reserves) (Financial) Regulations;

(b) continuous full time service; or

(c) service rendered by a legal officer which is not part of the service which he is obliged to render in order to fulfil his training commitment and which is performed during a period when he—

(i) would otherwise be engaged in his private professional capacity other than as an employee, between the hours of 9 o’clock in the morning and 5 o’clock in the evening on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday; or

(ii) while being a member to whom sub-paragraph (i) applies, is performing duties associated with a court martial, court of inquiry, appeal or other tribunal and continues to perform such duties on a Saturday or Sunday or between the hours of 5 o’clock in the evening and 9 o’clock in the morning on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday.

“(6) In sub-regulation (5) the expressions ‘legal officer’ and ‘training commitment’ have the same respective meanings as in the Defence Force (Reserves) (Financial) Regulations.”.

Clothing and equipment—initial issue

4. Regulation 234 of the Military Financial Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting sub-regulation (1); and

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (2) “under sub-regulation (1)”.

Repeal

5. Regulations 235 and 270 of the Military Financial Regulations are repealed.

Application

6. Clause 2 of this Interim Determination shall take effect on the day on which Determination 0212, Entertainment Allowance, is made under section 58b of the Defence Act 1903.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 30 July 1982.

2. Statutory Rules 1966 No. 35 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1982 No. 2 and see also