Military Financial Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1965 No. 134

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1965.*

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Defence Act 1903-1965.

Dated this tenth

 

day of September, 1965.

HENRY ABEL SMITH

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

a.j. forbes

Minister of State for the Army.

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Amendments of the Military Financial Regulations 

Higher duties allowance.

1.—(1.) Regulation 24 of the Military Financial Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(1.) Subject to the succeeding sub-regulations of this regulation and to such conditions as the Military Board determines, where a member holding a rank lower than the rank for a position on the establishment of a part of the Military Forces performs temporarily the full duties of the position, an allowance, called ‘higher duties allowance’, is payable to the member.”.

(2.) Where a member was not paid, and is not entitled to be paid, higher duties allowance in respect of the performance of duties on a day in the relevant period by virtue of regulation 24 of the Military Financial Regulations as in force on that day but would be entitled to be paid that allowance if the amendment of that regulation effected by the last preceding sub-regulation and the first determination made by the Military Board for the purposes of that regulation as amended by that sub-regulation had come into operation on the thirty-first day of May, 1965, higher duties allowance is, by virtue of this sub-regulation, payable to the member as if that amendment and that determination had come into operation on that date.

(3.) In the last preceding sub-regulation, ‘the relevant period’ means the period from and including the thirty-first day of May, 1965, to and including the day immediately preceding the commencement of this regulation.

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* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 16 September, 1965.

  Statutory Rules 1961, No. 39, as amended by Statutory Rules 1961, Nos. 84, 100 and 129; 1962, Nos. 61 and 75; 1963, Nos. 9, 23, 62, 70, 75, 85, 90 and 150; 1964, Nos. 14, 17, 48, 56, 65, 81, 89, 100, 133 and 166; and 1965, Nos. 52 and 66.

8106/65.—Price 9d. (8c)  9/13.8.1965

Outfit allowance—female members.

2.—(1.) Regulation 215 of the Military Financial Regulations is amended by omitting the words “Eighteen pounds” and inserting in their stead the words “Twenty-one pounds”.

(2.) Initial outfit allowance is payable, at the rate specified in regulation 215 of the Military Financial Regulations as amended by the last preceding sub-regulation, to a female member of the Permanent Military Forces who became or becomes entitled to be paid that allowance on the fourth day of December, 1964, or any subsequent day.

Living out away from home allowance—married members.

3.—(1.) Regulation 226 of the Military Financial Regulations is amended by omitting the table in sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following table:—

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
£	s.	d.	s.	d.	£	s.	d.
Colonel.................................	1	13	4	16	1	1	3	5
Lieutenant-Colonel or Major...	1	6	10	16	1	15	9
Captain, Lieutenant or Second Lieutenant..............................	1	4	2	16	1	12	7
Warrant officer or lower rank..	1	1	6	16	1	9	5

(2.) Regulation 226 of the Military Financial Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting after sub-regulation (1.) the following sub-regulation:—

“(1a.) Where the Military Board is satisfied that any living out away from home allowance payable to a married member under the last preceding sub-regulation is insufficient to meet the expenses that have been or may be incurred by the member in respect of the matters to which the allowance relates, the Military Board may authorize payment to the member of living out away from home allowance at such rate as it considers necessary to meet those expenses.”; and

(b) by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (7.) the word and figures “105 or 106” and inserting in their stead the word and figures “106 or 109”.

(3.) Living out away from home allowance is payable, in accordance with the provisions of regulation 226 of the Military Financial Regulations as amended by the preceding sub-regulations of this regulation, in respect of service in the Permanent Military Forces on and after the eighteenth day of December, 1964.

Removals—transitional provision.

4.—(1.) Where, on or after the eighteenth day of August, 1961, a member transported within Australia the member’s family and any furniture and effects of the member and the member’s family at his own expense in such circumstances that, if the amendments of the Military Financial Regulations effected by regulations 2, 3 and 4 of Statutory Rules 1965, No.

66 and the first determination made by the Military Board for the purposes of the regulation inserted in those Regulations by regulation 4 of that Statutory Rule had come into operation on that date, the member would have been entitled to have been removed at the expense of the Department under Division 11 of Part II. of the Military Financial Regulations as amended by that Statutory Rule, the member may be reimbursed an amount equal to—

(a)the expenses incurred by the member in so transporting his family and that furniture and those effects; or

(b)the expenses that the Department would have incurred if the member had been removed at the expense of the Department under Division 11 of Part II. of the Military Financial Regulations as so amended,

whichever is the less.

(2.) In the last preceding sub-regulation, expressions defined for the purposes of Division 11 of Part II. of the Military Financial Regulations have the same respective meanings as in that Division.

                              

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By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.