STATUTORY RULES
1963. No. 85.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1956.*
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Defence Act 1903-1956.
Dated this twenty-second day of August, 1963.
DE L’ISLE
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
J. O. CRAMER
Minister of State for the Army.
Amendments of the Military Financial Regulations.†
1. After regulation 105 of the Military Financial Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—
When family of member returning to Australia entitled to travel at expense of the Department.
“105a.—(1.) In this regulation, ‘oversea country’ means a country determined by the Military Board to be an oversea country for the purposes of this regulation.
“(2.) Where—
(a) upon the termination of a member’s service in an oversea country as a member of, or attached to, a body, unit or detachment of the Military Forces of the Commonwealth or of another part of the Queen’s dominions, the member and his family return to Australia from the country; and
(b) in the opinion of the Commander of a Command—
(i) a housing shortage exists in the locality in which the member is, by virtue of his posting, required to serve in Australia upon his return from the oversea country; and
(ii) suitable accommodation for the family of the member is not available in that locality,
the cost of transporting his family and their personal effects from the place where the family disembarks in Australia to a place in Australia where the member has obtained suitable accommodation for his family is payable by the Department.
“(3.) Where, the balance of the intended period of service in a locality of a member whose family was transported to a place at the cost of the Department under the last preceding sub-regulation is not less than six months at the time when he obtains accommodation for his family in that locality, the cost of transporting his family and their personal effects to that locality from that place is payable by the Department.”.
*Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 29th August, 1963.
† Statutory Rules 1961, No. 39, as amended by Statutory Rules 1961, Nos. 84, 100 and 129; 1962, Nos. 61 and 75; and 1963, Nos. 9, 23 and .
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The First Schedule.
2. The First Schedule to the Military Financial Regulations is amended by inserting after the word and figure—
“Regulation 105.”
the words and figure—
“Sub-regulation (1.) of regulation 105a.”.
By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.