Military Financial Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1979 No. 128

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

Pay in lieu of recreation leave on termination of service

1. Regulation 17a of the Military Financial Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (2a) “member’s dependants of an amount equal to” and substituting “dependant or dependants, or the legal personal representative, of the member of an amount equal to, or amounts equal in the aggregate to,”; and

(b) by inserting after sub-regulation (2a) the following sub-regulation:

“(2b) Where, upon the death of a member, an amount payable under sub-regulation (2a) would be bona vacantia, that sub-regulation does not authorize that amount to be paid in relation to the member.”.

Application

2. The Military Financial Regulations as amended by these Regulations apply in relation to a member whose death occurred after 31 December 1972 or whose death, under sub-regulation 17a (2a) of the Military Financial Regulations, is to be presumed to have occurred after that date.

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