Naval Financial Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1979 No. 138

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 19101

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 Naval Defence Act 1910.

Dated this thirteenth 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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AMENDMENT OF THE NAVAL FINANCIAL REGULATIONS2

Commencement

1. These Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on 21 December 1978.

Transport allowance

2. Regulation 196a of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (9) and substituting the following sub-regulations:

“(9) Subject to sub-regulation (10), the rate at which transport allowance is payable to a member in accordance with this regulation is whichever of the rates specified in the following table is applicable:

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Item	Motor vehicle not being a motor vehicle powered by a rotary engine	Motor vehicle powered by a rotary engine	Rate of allowance per kilometre for the first 12,000 kilometres travelled in a prescribed period	Rate of allowance per kilometre for each kilometre after the first 12,000 kilometres travelled in a prescribed period
cents	cents
1	Motor vehicle having a carrying capacity of 1 tonne or more	Motor vehicle having a carrying capacity of 1 tonne or more	18.6	13.0

 

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Item	Motor vehicle not being a motor vehicle powered by a rotary engine	Motor vehicle powered by a rotary engine	Rate of allowance per kilometre for the first 12,000 kilometres travelled in a prescribed period	Rate of allowance per kilometre for each kilometre after the first 12,000 kilometres travelled in a prescribed period
cents	cents
2	Motor vehicle having a carrying capacity of less than 1 tonne, the engine of which has more than 6 cylinders	Motor vehicle having a carrying capacity of less than 1 tonne, the engine of which has a capacity of 2,000 cubic centimetres or more	18.1	12.3
			3	Motor vehicle having a carrying capacity of less than 1 tonne, the engine of which has 5 or 6 cylinders	Motor vehicle having a carrying capacity of less than 1 tonne, the engine of which has a capacity of not less than 1,000 cubic centimetres but less than 2,000 cubic centimetres	14.0	9.9
4	Motor vehicle having a carrying capacity of less than 1 tonne, the engine of which has 4 cylinders or less	Motor vehicle having a carrying capacity of less than 1 tonne, the engine of which has a capacity of less than 1,000 cubic centimetres				12.6	8.8
			5	Motor cycle the engine capacity of which is 250 cubic centimetres or more	9.2	6.6
6	Any other motor cycle	4.4			3.4

“(9a) For the purposes of sub-regulation (9)—

(a) a reference to a rotary engine shall be read as a reference to an internal combustion engine in which fuel is ignited by means of a spark and in the combustion chamber, or each combustion chamber, of which a single central rotating member performs the function performed by a piston in a combustion chamber of a reciprocating internal combustion engine in which fuel is so ignited; and

(b) subject to sub-regulation (9b), the displacement of the rotary engine that drives a motor vehicle shall be taken to be the displacement of the engine according to the specifications of the engine issued by the manufacturer of the motor vehicle.

“(9b) Where the specifications issued by the manufacturer of a vehicle that is driven by a rotary engine do not state the displacement of the engine but state the displacement of the rotor or rotors comprising the engine, the displacement of the engine shall be taken to be equal to the displacement, according to those specifications, of the rotor that comprises the engine or the sum of the displacements, according to those specifications, of the rotors that comprise the engine.”.

   

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 19 July 1979.

2. Statutory Rules 1956 No. 88 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1979 No. 25 and see also