EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1982 NO. 357
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 determinations to be Statutory Rules.
Regulation 131 of the Military Financial Regulations provides for the payment of an “education allowance” to a member of the Army who is posted from one locality to another in Australia and maintains his child at a secondary school in a locality other than the locality of posting to prevent disruption to the child’s education.
Regulation 159 of the Military Financial Regulations similarly provides for the payment of a “child education allowance” to a member of the Army who is posted overseas and maintains a child over the age of 9 at a school in Australia.
Regulations 131 and 159 each provide for assessment of the allowance based on the number of weeks per term spent at school, the payment by the member of an initial amount of the cost of the education and a maximum prescribed rate of the allowance.
These Statutory Rules amend sub-regulations 131(2A) and (2B), and 159(2A) and (2B) by increasing the amount paid by the member and the prescribed maximum rates of education and child education allowances to accord with amended rates for the Australian Public Service.
The date of effect is 1 January 1982 except for the increase in the amount to be paid by the member which takes effect from the date of gazettal of the Statutory Rules.