Military Financial Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)
STATUTORY RULES
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1965.*
I,
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the
advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations
under the
Dated this twenty-eighth day of October, 1966.
CASEY
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
MALCOLM FRASER
Minister of State for the Army.
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Amendments of the Military Financial Regulations
“(2.) The rate of a good conduct increment is—
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(2.) Where a good conduct increment was payable to a member in respect of a day in the period from and including the fourteenth day of February, 1966, to and including the day immediately before the commencement of these Regulations, the member is, by virtue of this sub-regulation, entitled to be paid an additional increment in respect of that day at a rate equal to the amount by which the good conduct increment paid to the member in respect of that day was less than—
(a) in the case of a male member—Fourteen cents; or
(b) in the case of a female member—Nine cents.
“41a.—(1.) An amount ascertained as provided in the next succeeding sub-regulation may, with the approval of the Military Board, be paid to a member who—
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a )has ceased to reside in an isolated district upon having been posted to a place not in any isolated district;
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* Notified in the
Statutory Rules 1966, No. 35, as amended by Statutory Rules 1966, Nos. 58 and 87.
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c ) applied for permission to take, upon completing his service in that district, a period of recreation leave for which he was eligible but was refused recreation leave on the ground that it was inappropriate, having regard to the duties on which he was engaged, for him to be granted recreation leave at that time.
“(2.) The amount payable to a member under the last preceding sub-regulation is an amount ascertained by multiplying an amount equal to the daily rate of district allowance that the member was receiving in respect of his service in that district by a number equal to the number of days in the period of recreation leave for which he was eligible.”.
(2.) A payment of an amount ascertained as provided in regulation 41a of the Military Financial Regulations as amended by these Regulations may, with the approval of the Military Board, be made to a member who would have been entitled to a payment under that regulation if it had come into operation on the twenty-fifth day of October, 1965.
“42.—(1.) An allowance, called ‘territory allowance’, is payable to a member who is entitled to district allowance under regulation 41 of these Regulations by reason of being posted for service in and residing in the New Guinea area, from and including the day on which he arrives in that area to and including the day immediately preceding the day on which he ceases to reside in that area or is posted for service outside that area, whichever is the later day.
“(2.) The rate of territory allowance payable to a member who is not a married member is Fifty dollars per year.
“(3.) The rate of territory allowance payable to a married member whose family is not residing in the New Guinea area is Two hundred and ten dollars per year.
“(4.) Subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, the rate of territory allowance payable to a married member whose family is residing in the New Guinea area is a rate per year equal to the sum of Seventy-four dollars and an amount equal to the annual rent payable by the member for the premises in the New Guinea area occupied by him as his residence or, if that rate is higher than the rate per year ascertained in accordance with the formula specified in the next succeeding sub-regulation, the rate per year so ascertained.
“(5.) For the purposes of the last preceding sub-regulation, the formula is
dollars,
where—
A is an amount equal to the rate per day at which pay is payable under these Regulations to a member holding the like rank as the member holds and having less than 1 year’s service in that rank;
B is an amount equal to the rate per day at which marriage allowance is payable to the member;
C is an amount equal to the rate per day at which separation allowance is payable to the member;
D is an amount equal to the rate per day at which provision allowance is payable to the member; and
E is an amount equal to the rate per day at which clothing maintenance allowance is payable to the member.
“(6.) Where the rate of territory allowance under sub-regulation (4.) of this regulation is less than Two hundred and ten dollars per year, the rate of territory allowance payable to a member referred to in that sub-regulation is Two hundred and ten dollars per year.
“(7.) In this regulation—
‘family’ has the same meaning as in Division 2 of Part II.;
‘rank’ includes classification.
“(8.) For the purposes of this regulation, a member who is holding a rank temporarily or is holding an honorary rank shall be deemed to hold the rank that he would hold if he were not holding any rank temporarily or any honorary rank.”.
(2.) There is payable, by virtue of this sub-regulation, to a member in receipt of territory allowance in respect of the period commencing on the fourth day of November, 1963, and ending on the day immediately before the commencement of these Regulations or a part of that period an amount equal to the amount by which the territory allowance paid or payable to him in respect of that period or the part of that period is less than the amount of territory allowance that would have been or would be payable to him in respect of that period or that part of that period if territory allowance were payable to him as provided by the regulation inserted in the Military Financial Regulations by the last preceding sub-regulation.
“85.—(1.) Subject to the succeeding sub-regulations of this regulation, where a member serving in the New Guinea area travels to the Wau Leave Centre, to Mount Hagen or to Goroka for the purpose of spending a period of recreation leave at that place, the fares of the member and of any member of his family who travels with him in respect of travelling to and from that place may, subject to such conditions as the Military Board determines, be paid by the Department.
“(2.) Fares are not payable by the Department under the last preceding sub-regulation unless the member re-imburses the Commonwealth—
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b )if the member travels to and from the place with a member of his family—an amount of Twenty dollars.
“(3.) Where a member travels to and from Mount Hagen or Goroka for the purpose of spending a period of recreation leave at that place and the fares of the member, or the fares of the member and the member of his family who travels with him, as the case may be, in respect of that travel exceed the fares that would have been payable in respect of travel to and from the Wau Leave Centre, the member is also liable to re-imburse the Department an amount equal to the excess.
“(4.) The fares of a member or of a member and a member of his family are not payable by the Department under this regulation more than once in any period of two years.”.
(2.) Where, but for the provisions of sub-regulation (2.) of regulation 88 of the Repealed Regulations or of sub-regulation (2.) of regulation 97 of the Military Financial Regulations, as the case requires, travelling allowance would have been payable to a member in respect of a day in the period from and including the thirteenth day of April, 1965, to and including the day immediately before the commencement of these Regulations, travelling allowance is, by virtue of this sub-regulation, payable to the member in respect of that day as if regulation 88 of the Repealed Regulations or regulation 97 of the Military Financial Regulations, as the case requires, had not contained any sub-regulation (2.).
(3.) In the last preceding sub-regulation, “the Repealed Regulations” means the regulations repealed by regulation 3 of the Military Financial Regulations.
Rank | Rate per day for residence in a capital city | Rate per day for residence in a place other than a capital city |
$ | $ | |
Major-General............................................................................. | 16.50 | 11.00 |
Brigadier..................................................................................... | ||
Colonel........................................................................................ | 11.80 | 7.70 |
Lieutenant-Colonel..................................................................... | ||
Major........................................................................................... | 10.00 | 7.70 |
Captain........................................................................................ | ||
Lieutenant................................................................................... | 10.00 | 7.70 |
Second Lieutenant...................................................................... | ||
Warrant Officer or soldier of lower rank.................................... | 10.00 | 7.70 |
(2.) Regulation 99 of the Military Financial Regulations is further amended by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) the words “Seventeen dollars” and inserting in their stead the words “Twenty-one dollars”.
(3.) A member in receipt of travelling allowance in respect of a day in the period from and including the fourteenth day of February, 1966, to and including the day immediately before the commencement of these
Regulations as provided in sub-regulation (1.) of regulation 90 of the Repealed Regulations or in sub-regulation (1.) of regulation 99 of the Military Financial Regulations, as the case may be, is, by virtue of this sub-regulation, entitled to be paid additional travelling allowance in respect of that day at a rate equal to the difference between the rate at which the travelling allowance was paid or is payable and the rate at which the travelling allowance would have been or would be payable if it were payable at the appropriate rate provided for in regulation 99 of the Military Financial Regulations as amended by these Regulations.
(4.) Travelling allowance is payable to an officer referred to in sub-regulation (2.) of regulation 99 of the Military Financial Regulations at the rate specified in that sub-regulation as amended by the last preceding sub-regulation in respect of travel on or after the sixteenth day of March, 1966.
(5.) In sub-regulation (3.) of this regulation, “the Repealed Regulations” means the regulations repealed by regulation 3 of the Military Financial Regulations.
Rank | Rate per day for residence in a capital city | Rate per day for residence in a place other than a capital city |
$ | $ | |
Major-General.................................................................................. | 2.00 | 1.50 |
Brigadier.......................................................................................... | ||
Colonel............................................................................................ | 1.80 | 1.20 |
Lieutenant-Colonel.......................................................................... | ||
Major............................................................................................... | 1.50 | 1.20 |
Captain............................................................................................ | ||
Lieutenant........................................................................................ | 1.50 | 1.20 |
Second Lieutenant........................................................................... | ||
Warrant Officer and soldier of lower rank...................................... | 1.50 | 1.20 |
(2.) A member in receipt of travelling allowance to cover incidental expenses under regulation 92 of the Repealed Regulations or under regulation 101 of the Military Financial Regulations, as the case may be, in respect of a day in the period from and including the fourteenth day of February, 1966, to and including the day immediately before the commencement of these Regulations is, by virtue of this sub-regulation, entitled to be paid additional travelling allowance in respect of that day at a rate equal to the difference between the rate at which that travelling allowance was paid or is payable to him and the rate at which it would have been or would be payable to him if it were payable at the appropriate rate specified in the table in sub-regulation (6.) of regulation 101 of the Military Financial Regulations as amended by these Regulations.
(3.) In the last preceding sub-regulation, “the Repealed Regulations” means the regulations repealed by regulation 3 of the Military Financial Regulations.
“(2.) The rate of meal allowance is—
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(2.) Where meal allowance was or is payable to a member under the Repealed Regulations or under the Military Financial Regulations, as the case may be, in respect of travel on or after the fourteenth day of February, 1966, and before the commencement of these Regulations, an allowance is payable to the member, by virtue of this sub-regulation, of an amount equal to the amount by which the meal allowance so paid or payable to him is less than the meal allowance that would have been or would be payable to him if meal allowance were payable at the rates specified in sub-regulation (2.) of regulation 107 of the Military Financial Regulations as amended by these Regulations.
(3.) In the last preceding sub-regulation, “the Repealed Regulations” means the regulations repealed by regulation 3 of the Military Financial Regulations.
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(2.) An allowance may, by virtue of this sub-regulation, be paid to a member who, during the period from and including the twenty-fifth day of November, 1965, to and including the day immediately before the commencement of these Regulations or during a part of that period, was a married member in receipt of pay at a consolidated rate of pay of an amount equal to the amount of accommodation allowance that would have been payable to him if regulation 126 of the Military Financial Regulations as amended by these Regulations and the first determination made for the purpose of that regulation had been in force during that period or the part of that period.
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a ) by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (1.) the word “member” and inserting in its stead the words “married member”;
(b) by omitting from that paragraph the word “and” (last occurring);
(c) by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (1.) the word “member” and inserting in its stead the words “married member”;
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d ) by adding at the end of sub-regulation (1.) the following word and paragraph:—
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(i) who enlists in the Permanent Military Forces or is appointed an officer in those Forces;
(ii) who travelled to Australia from an oversea country in order that he might so enlist or be appointed such an officer;
(iii) who, upon so enlisting or being so appointed, is required to serve in a locality in Australia; and
(iv) whose family occupy premises other than suitable premises in that locality.”; and
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(2.) An allowance may, by virtue of this sub-regulation, be paid to a member who, during the period from and including the twenty-fifth day of November, 1965, to and including the day immediately before the commencement of these Regulations or during a part of that period, was a married member in receipt of pay at a consolidated rate of pay of an amount equal to the amount that would have been payable to him by way of rental allowance if regulation 128 of the Military Financial Regulations as amended by the last preceding sub-regulation and the determinations and approvals of general application in force for the purposes of that regulation, on the date of commencement of these Regulations had been in force during that period or the part of that period.
(3.) For the purpose of ascertaining the amount payable to a member under the last preceding sub-regulation, the Military Board may, by virtue of this sub-regulation, give such approvals and do such other things, in respect of the member, as it could have given or done under regulation 128 of the Military Financial Regulations as amended by these Regulations if that regulation as so amended had been in force during the period specified in the last preceding sub-regulation.
(4.)
Rental allowance is payable under regulation 128 of the Military Financial
Regulations as amended by these Regulations to a married member referred to in
paragraph (
“130.—(1.) Subject to the succeeding sub-regulations of this regulation and to such conditions as the Military Board determines, an allowance, called ‘disturbance allowance’, is payable to—
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a ) a married member, upon the removal of the member to furnished or unfurnished premises; or(
b )a member other than a married member, upon the removal of the member to unfurnished premises.
“(2.) The amount of disturbance allowance payable to a married member upon the removal of the member from premises, whether furnished or unfurnished, in a locality to unfurnished premises in another locality is—
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a ) if the removal is the first or second removal of the member to unfurnished premises—One hundred dollars;(
b )if the removal is the third or fourth removal of the member to unfurnished premises—One hundred and thirty dollars; or(
c ) if the removal is the fifth or a subsequent removal of the member to unfurnished premises—One hundred and sixty dollars.
“(3.) The amount of disturbance allowance payable to a married member upon the removal of the member to furnished premises in a locality other than the locality in which he is serving is Thirty dollars.
“(4.) The amount of disturbance allowance payable to a married member upon the removal of the member from furnished premises in a locality to unfurnished premises in the same locality is—
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a ) if the removal is the first or second removal of the member to unfurnished premises—Seventy dollars;(
b ) if the removal is the third or fourth removal of the member to unfurnished premises—One hundred dollars; or(
c ) if the removal is the fifth or a subsequent removal of the member to unfurnished premises—One hundred and thirty dollars.
“(5.) The amount of disturbance allowance payable to a member other than a married member upon the removal of the member to unfurnished premises is Thirty dollars.
“(6.) Where the family of a member, not being a married member, is transported at the expense of the Department under Division 11 of this Part upon the removal of the member, sub-regulations (1.) to (5.) (inclusive) of this regulation apply to and in relation to the removal and to and in relation to the member as if that removal were the removal of a married member.
“(7.) For the purposes of calculating the amount payable to a member under sub-regulation (2.) or (4.) of this regulation upon the removal of the member, a previous removal of the member does not count unless the member was a married member when that previous removal occurred or that sub-regulation applies in relation to the previous removal as if it were the removal of a married member.
“(8.) Subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, references in this regulation to the removal of a member shall be read as references to the removal of a member on or after the first day of June, 1948.
“(9.) Where a member has sold part or all of his furniture in lieu of having the furniture transported on the removal of the member and has been paid an allowance—
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a ) under regulation 132 of these Regulations or under regulation 124 of the regulations repealed by regulation 3 of these Regulations; or(
b )before the fifth day of March, 1961, in like circumstances as the circumstances in which an allowance is payable under regulation 132 of these Regulations,
the removal of the member before the date of that sale does not count for the purpose of calculating the amount of disturbance allowance payable to the member under this regulation.
“(10.) Where the widow or another member of the family of a deceased member is removed under Division 11 of this Part, disturbance allowance is payable to the widow or the member of his family, as the case may be.
“(11.) The amount of disturbance allowance payable under the last preceding sub-regulation is the amount that would be payable if the member were still alive and the removal were the removal of the member.”.
(2.) Where a person, being a member or the widow or another member of the family of the deceased member, has been removed on or after the first day of March, 1966, and the amount of disturbance allowance (if any) paid or payable to the person under regulation 130 of the Military Financial Regulations as in force on that day is less than the amount of disturbance allowance that would have been or would be payable to the person if the regulation inserted in the Military Financial Regulations by the last preceding sub-regulation and the first determination of the Military Board for the purposes of that regulation had come into force on the first day of March, 1966, the person may, by virtue of this sub-regulation, be paid additional disturbance allowance of an amount equal to the difference.
“158.—(1.) Where a married member serving on long term duty in an oversea country—
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a )is in receipt of oversea living out allowance or oversea living in allowance under this Division; and
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an allowance, called ‘child allowance’, is payable to him at such rate as the Military Board determines.
“(2.) Child allowance is payable under the last preceding sub-regulation subject to such conditions (if any) as the Military Board determines.
“(3.) The Military Board may determine rates at which child allowance is payable according to different facts and circumstances specified in the determination.”.
(2.) The Military Board may determine rates of child allowance and terms and conditions subject to which child allowance is payable for the purpose of applying the regulation inserted in the Military Financial Regulations by the last preceding sub-regulation during the period from and including the first day of October, 1964, to and including the day immediately preceding the commencement of these Regulations.
(3.) Where the amount payable to a married member by way of child allowance under regulation 150 of the Repealed Regulations or under regulation 158 of the Military Financial Regulations in respect of the period specified in the last preceding sub-regulation is less than the amount that would have been payable to the member by way of child allowance in respect of that period if the regulation inserted in the Military Financial Regulations by sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation and the determinations made by virtue of the last preceding sub-regulation had come into force on the first day of October, 1964, the member is, by virtue of this sub-regulation, entitled to be paid an allowance of an amount equal to the difference.
(4.) In the last preceding sub-regulation, “the Repealed Regulations” means the regulations repealed by regulation 3 of the Military Financial Regulations.
“167a. Where a member oversea on intermediate term duty or long term duty uses a motor vehicle, other than a motor vehicle belonging to the Commonwealth, for the purpose of travelling—
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a ) on duty in circumstances in which he is entitled to be paid travelling allowance or meal allowance under the last preceding regulation; or(
b )on leave in circumstances in which the cost of his fares in travelling to and from the place at which he intends to spend his leave, or a part of that cost, is payable by the Department,
the member may be paid an allowance, called ‘mileage allowance’, in respect of the use of the vehicle in so travelling, at such rate and subject to such conditions as the Military Board determines.”.
(2.) Mileage allowance is payable to a member under regulation 167a of the Military Financial Regulations as amended by the last preceding sub-regulation, at the rate and subject to the conditions first determined by the Military Board after the commencement of these Regulations, in respect of travel referred to in that regulation on or after the first day of March, 1963.
“199.—(1.) Subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation and to such conditions as the Military Board determines, an efficiency grant is payable to a member entitled under regulation 190 of these Regulations to pay in respect of his service in the Citizen Military Forces, as follows:—
On completion of 2 years’ efficient service—Twenty dollars;
On completion of 3 years’ efficient service—One hundred dollars;
On completion of each year’s efficient service after completing 3 years’ efficient service—Forty dollars.
“(2.) An efficiency grant is not payable to a female member or to a member serving in the Papua and New Guinea Volunteer Rifles who is not entitled to be paid expatriate allowance under the last preceding regulation.
“(3.) The Military Board shall determine conditions to be complied with by a member to whom sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation applies in respect of a year’s service in order that he may count that year’s service as a year’s efficient service for the purposes of this regulation.
“(4.) For the purposes of this regulation, a member shall be deemed to have completed one year’s efficient service for each year’s service in respect of which he has complied with the conditions determined by the Military Board under the last preceding sub-regulation.
“(5.) In this regulation, reference to a year’s service, in relation to a member, shall be read—
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a ) if the member was serving in the Citizen Military Forces on the first day of July, 1965—as a reference to the period of twelve months ended on the thirtieth day of June, 1966, or a successive period of twelve months; or
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b ) in any other case—the period of twelve months ended or ending on the day immediately before the anniversary of the day on which the member commenced to serve in the Citizen Military Forces or a successive period of twelve months.”.
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a )by omitting from paragraph (a ) of sub-regulation (2.) the words “Fifty cents” and inserting in their stead the words “Fifty-five cents”; and(
b ) by omitting from paragraph (b )of that sub-regulation the words “Seventy-five cents” (wherever occurring) and inserting in their stead the words “Eighty-three cents”.
(2.) A member in receipt of parachutists allowance in respect of the fourth day of August, 1964, or any subsequent day before the commencement of these Regulations is, by virtue of this sub-regulation, entitled to be paid an allowance of an amount equal to the amount by which the parachutists allowance paid or payable to him in respect of that day is less than the amount that would have been or would be payable to him if that allowance were payable to him at the appropriate rate provided for in regulation 203 of the Military Financial Regulations as amended by the last preceding sub-regulation.
Rank | Rate per day where not supplied with service accommodation or rations for a period of seventy-two consecutive hours or more | Rate per day where supplied with service accommodation but not rations for a period of seventy-two consecutive hours or more | Rate per day where supplied with rations but not service accommodation for a period of seventy-two consecutive hours or more |
$ | $ | $ | |
Major-General or Brigadier....................................................................................... | 4.25 | 1.61 | 3.42 |
Colonel....................................................................................... | 3.33 | 1.61 | 2.34 |
Lieutenant-Colonel or Major....................................................................................... | 2.68 | 1.61 | 1.58 |
Captain, Lieutenant or Second Lieutenant....................................................................................... | 2.42 | 1.61 | 1.26 |
Warrant Officer or lower rank....................................................................................... | 2.15 | 1.61 | 0.94 |
(2.) Regulation 250 of the Military Financial Regulations is
further amended by omitting paragraph (
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(3.) Living out away from home allowance is payable to members in accordance with regulation 250 of the Military Financial Regulations as if the last two preceding sub-regulations had come into operation on the seventh day of March, 1966.
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By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.
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