Military Financial Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1979 No. 131

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 19031

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 fourth day of July 1979.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

J. E. McLEAY

Minister of State for Administrative Services for and on

behalf of the Minister of State for Defence

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AMENDMENTS OF THE MILITARY FINANCIAL REGULATIONS2

Allowances payable in respect of authorized journey

1. Regulation 98 of the Military Financial Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting the table in paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (1) and substituting the following table:

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Meal	Amount for capital city-Brigadier or any higher rank	Amount other than for capital city-Brigadier or any higher rank	Amount for capital city-Colonel or any lower rank	Amount other than for capital city-Colonel or any lower rank
$	$	$	$
Breakfast...........	4.60	3.95	3.75	3.10
Lunch................	6.40	4.80	3.80	4.00
Dinner...............	8.70	6.90	7.80	6.25

(b) by omitting the table in paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (2) and substituting the following table:

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Amount for capital city-Brigadier or any higher rank	Amount other than for capital city-Brigadier of any higher rank	Amount for capital city-Colonel or any lower rank	Amount other than for capital city-Colonel or any lower rank
$	$	$	$
28.30	20.35	21.90	17.25

(c) by omitting from sub-regulation (3) “$4.65” and substituting “$5.00”; and

(d) by omitting from sub-regulation (3) “$3.75” and substituting “$3.90”.

Meal allowance

2. Regulation 107 of the Military Financial Regulations is amended by omitting paragraphs (b) and (c) of sub-regulation (2) and substituting the following paragraphs:

“(b) for lunch—$4.00; and

(c) for dinner—$5.15.”.

Application

3. The Military Financial Regulations as amended by these Regulations apply in relation to—

(a) an authorized journey within the meaning of Division 10 of Part II of those Regulations, or part of such an authorized journey, made after 30 April 1979; and

(b) travel in respect of which meal allowance is payable under regulation 107 of those Regulations undertaken after 30 April 1979.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 10 July 1979.

2. Statutory Rules 1966 No. 35 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1979 No. 7 and see also