Naval Financial Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1976 No. 4

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910-1975.*

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Naval Defence Act 1910-1975.

Dated this fourteenth day of January, 1976.

A. R. CUTLER

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

D. J. KILLEN

Minister of State for Defence.

 

Amendments of the Naval Financial Regulations 

District Allowance.

1. Regulation 107 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting before the definition of “ isolated district ” in sub-regulation (1) the following definitions:—

“ ‘ category MS member ’ means a male member who maintains a home for his dependants in which he does not reside;

‘ category O member’ means a member other than a category M member or a category MS member;”;

(b) by adding at the end of sub-regulation (1) the following definitions:—

“ ‘ married member’ means a member who is a category M member or a category MS member;”;

‘ unmarried member’ means a category O member.”;

(c) by omitting sub-regulation (4aa);

(d) by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (4ab) the words “, by virtue of a classification effected on or after the twenty-fourth day of February, 1972,”;

 

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 22 January 1976.

  Statutory Rules 1956, No. 88, as amended by Statutory Rules 1957, Nos. 27, 32, 68 and 77; 1958, Nos. 25, 45 and 76; 1959, Nos. 66 and 90; 1960, No, 53; 1961, Nos. 5, 12, 24, 33, 45, 78, 90, 96, 130 and 143; 1962, Nos. 10, 19, 22, 32, 86, 96 and 107; 1963, Nos. 12, 18, 54, 61, 72, 88, 94 and 122; 1964, Nos. 5, 15, 16, 50, 51, 60, 90, 101, 104, 130, 139, 167 and 168; 1965, Nos. 46, 70, 74, 122, 140, 157, 175 and 193; 1966, Nos. 31, 33, 103 and 128; 1967, Nos. 21, 40, 56, 107, 109 and 159; 1968, Nos. 70, 77, 78, 99, 104 and 152; 1969, Nos. 5, 41, 55, 113, 114, 119, 138, 177, 201, 208 and 209; 1970, Nos. 12, 36, 38, 60, 61, 134, 158, 180, 203 and 204; 1971, Nos. 1, 2, 46, 56, 122, 158 and 173; 1972, Nos. 21, 35, 83, 100, 147, 182 and 200; 1973, Nos. 81, 106, 170, 178, 208, 254 and 270; 1974, Nos. 74, 90, 158, 200, 254 and 255; and 1975, Nos. 40 and 142. See also the Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations (Statutory Rules 1973, No. 100, as amended by Statutory Rules 1973, Nos. 132, 201, 203, 249 and 269; 1974, Nos. 71, 77, 90, 92, 93 and 208; 1975, Nos. 34, 149, 163 and 197; and 1976, No. 3).

 

(e) by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (4ab) the words “ (in the next succeeding sub-regulation referred to as the relevant grade in relation to the member) ”;

(f) by omitting from sub-regulation (4ab) the words “ and a condition specified in the next succeeding sub-regulation is fulfilled in relation to the member,”;

(g) by omitting the table in sub-regulation (4ab) and substituting the following table:—

Grade	Category M member or category MS member living out	Category O member living out	Member living in
Rate per day	Rate per day	Rate per day
$	$	$
I ....................................................	0.58	0.30	0.21
II ...................................................	1.04	0.53	0.37
III..................................................	1.67	0.90	0.63
IV..................................................	2.33	1.34	0.94
V ..................................................	3.04	1.78	1.25
VI..................................................	3.81	2.33	1.63

(h) by omitting sub-regulation (4ac) and substituting the following sub-regulations:—

“ (4ac) Where a member resides, on or after 2 July 1974, in an isolated district, being a district that comprises a locality—

(a) that was, immediately before 2 July 1974, a locality classified for the purposes of district allowances under regulation 102 of the Public Service Regulations; and

(b) the classification of which for that purpose is lowered on or after that date,

the rate at which district allowance is payable to the member in respect of any period during which he resides in that district on or after that date is whichever is the greater of—

(c) the rate that would have been payable to the member under the provisions of this regulation as in force immediately before that date if those provisions had continued in force; or

(d) the rate that would, but for this sub-regulation, be payable to the member under this regulation as in force from time to time on or after the commencement of this sub-regulation.

“ (4ad) Where a member resides, on or after 2 July 1974, in an isolated district, being a district that comprises a locality that—

(a) was, immediately before 2 July 1974, a locality classified for the purposes of district allowances under regulation 102 of the Public Service Regulations; and

(b) ceases on or after that date to be classified for the purposes of district allowances under regulation 102 of the Public Service Regulations,

district allowance is payable to the member in respect of any period during which he resides in that district on or after 2 July 1974 and before 22 January 1976 at the rate at which district allowance would have been payable to the member under the provisions of this regulation as in force immediately before 2 July 1974 if those provisions had continued in force.”;

(i) by omitting from sub-regulation (4a) the words “ specified in the applicable, in relation to a member other than a married member ” and substituting the words “ applicable to a category O member who is living out ”; and

(j) by omitting from sub-regulation (4b) the words “ specified in the table in sub-regulation (4aa) or (4ab) of this regulation, whichever is applicable, in relation ” and substituting the word “ applicable ”,

Commencement.

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