EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES NO. 279 OF 1984
ISSUED BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE MINISTER FOR DEFENCE
AMENDMENT OF THE MILITARY FINANCIAL REGULATIONS
Section 12 of the Defence Amendment Act 1979 allows the Minister to make interim determinations amending or repealing regulations. The Act also deems such interim determinatons to be Statutory Rules.
Regulation 159 of the Military Financial regulations provides for payment of Child Education Allowance to members of the Army posted overseas whose children remain at school in Australia or Britain during the posting.
These Statutory Rules repeal regulation 159 which has been replaced by a tri-Service Determination 3726, Child Education Allowance, made under section 58B of the Defence Act 1903.
The date of effect is the date Determination 3726 is made.