EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1982 NO 189
ISSUED BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE MINISTER FOR DEFENCE
DEFENCE FORCE RETIREMENT AND DEATH BENEFITS ACT 1973 - DEFENCE FORCE RETIREMENT AND DEATH BENEFITS (ANNUAL RATES OF PAY) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
The Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (Annual Rates of Pay) Regulations, made under the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973, prescribe “annual rates of pay” as the basis for calculation of contributions and entitlements under the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits scheme.
Sub-regulation 4(5) of the Regulations prescribes an “annual rate of pay” for chaplains based on the number of years service which they have completed. Army chaplains-general were specifically excluded from the operation of sub-regulation 4(5) so that, under sub-regulation 4(3), their “annual rates of pay” were based on the rates of salary prescribed in Schedule 6 to the Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations.
This Statutory Rule substitutes “principal chaplain” for “chaplain-general” in sub-regulation 4(5). The amendment is consequential on amendments to the Australian Military Regulations which, inter alia, replaced chaplains-general with principal chaplains.
The amendment keeps the “annual rate of pay” for a principal chaplain on the same basis as that which applied to a chaplain-general, ie the rate of salary prescribed in Schedule 6 to the Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations.
The Statutory Rule has effect from the date of gazettal.