Military Financial Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1978 No. 22

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 sixteenth day of February 1978.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

D. J. KILLEN

Minister of State for Defence

AMENDMENTS OF THE MILITARY FINANCIAL REGULATIONS 

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..........................................................	3.90	3.30	2.95	2.75
Lunch..........................................................	5.40	4.05	2.95	2.75
Dinner..........................................................	7.40	5.80	6.15	5.10

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 21 February 1978.

  Statutory Rules 1966, No. 35 as amended by Statutory Rules 1966, Nos. 58, 87, 129 and 151; 1967, Nos 24, 34, 111, 145 and 163; 1968, Nos, 49, 50, 62, 63, 111 and 154; 1969, Nos. 6, 15, 53, 67, 97, 112, 118, 131, 132, 169 and 198; 1970, Nos. 5, 46, 76, 102, 133, 157, 175, 192 and 209; 1971, Nos. 8, 45, 79, 98, 118, 131, 155 and 164; 1972, Nos. 25, 80, 127, 135, 145 and 197; 1973, Nos. 88, 160, 171, 204 and 255; 1974, Nos. 90, 159, 201 and 256; 1975, No. 39; 1976, Nos. 5, 7, 11, 58, 66, 80, 102, 108, 135, 205, 238, 240 and 245; and 1977, Nos, 3, 13, 36, 90, 102, 140, 141 and 239.

(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 for 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
$	$	$	$
24.00	57.05	19.00	14.40

(c) by omitting from sub-regulation (3) “ $3.85 ” and substituting “" $4.30 ”; and

(d) by omitting from sub-regulation (3) “ $3.10 ” and substituting “ $3.50 ”.

Meal allowance

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

“ (a) for breakfast—$2.75;

(b) for lunch—$2.75; and

(c) for dinner—$4.20.”.

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 an authorized journey, made after 17 November 1977; and

(b) travel, in respect of which meal allowance within the meaning of regulation 107 of those Regulations is payable, undertaken after 17 November 1977.