Statutory Rules
1978 No. 224
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 November 1978.
ZELMAN COWEN
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
J. E. McLEAY
Minister of State for Construction for and on behalf of the 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 ..... | 4.25 | 3.60 | 3.40 | 3.10 |
Lunch ........ | 5.90 | 4.40 | 3.40 | 3.10 |
Dinner ....... | 8.05 | 6.30 | 6.90 | 5.70 |
* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 23 November 1978.
† Statutory Rules 1966 No. 35 as amended to date. For previous amendments see footnote † to Statutory Rules 1978 No. 22 and see also Statutory Rules 1978 Nos. 22, 60, 69, 76, 87 and 207.
(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 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 | |
$ | $ | $ | $ | |
26.15 | 18.60 | 20.90 | 16.05 | |
(c) by omitting from sub-regulation (3) “ $4.30 ” and substituting “ $4.65 ”; and
(d) by omitting from sub-regulation (3) “ $3.50 ” and substituting “ $3.75 ”.
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—$3.10;
(b) for lunch—$3.10; and
(c) for dinner—$4.70.”.
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 August 1978; and
(b) travel, in respect of which meal allowance within the meaning of regulation 107 of those Regulations is payable, undertaken after 17 August 1978.