Statutory Rules
1980 No. 222
REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 19031
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 twenty-ninth day of July 1980.
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
AMENDMENTS OF THE MILITARY FINANCIAL REGULATIONS2
Interpretation
1. Regulation 5 of the Military Financial Regulations is amended by adding at the end of sub-regulation (1) the following definition:
“ ‘weekend or periodic detention’ means detention or imprisonment in pursuance of a law providing for—
(a) weekend detention or imprisonment; or
(b) periodic detention or imprisonment.”.
Member under arrest or undergoing imprisonment
2. Regulation 26 of the Military Financial Regulations is amended by omitting from sub‑regulation (1) “a period of imprisonment or detention” and substituting “imprisonment or detention, other than a period of weekend or periodic detention under a sentence imposed by a civil court”.
NOTES
1. Notified In The Commonwealth Of Australia Gazette on 5 August 1980.
2. Statutory Rules 1966 No. 35 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1980 No. 30 and see also Statutory Rules 1980 Nos. 30, 33, 45, 46, 47, 56, 57, 130, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 175 and 220.