Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1980 No. 156 MILITARY FINANCIAL REGULATIONS (AMENDMENTS) - REG 1

1. Regulation 41 of the Military Financial Regulations is amended-

   (a)  by inserting in sub-regulation (1) the following definition:

" 'adult minimum wage' means the notional six capital cities adult minimum
wage as determined from time to time by the Australian Conciliation and
Arbitration Commission under section 59 of the Conciliation and Arbitration
Act 1904;";

   (b)  by omitting from sub-regulation (4B) the words "the rate specified
        opposite that grade" and substituting the words "the rate per year
        specified opposite that grade";

   (c)  by omitting from sub-regulation (4B) the table and substituting the
        following table:
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        Column
1 Column 2   Column 3  Column 4

Grade -----------------------------------------------------------------------
$ $ $
1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380        200 140          2 . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680        350       245 3 . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . 1,080        590       413          4 . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . 1,510        870       609          5 . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . 1,960      1,160       812          6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . 2,450      1,510     1,057

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by omitting sub-regulations (4C), (4D), (5), (6), (7) and (8) and substituting
the following sub-regulations:

"(5) Subject to sub-regulation (6) the rate of district allowance specified in
column 2 of the table in sub-regulation (4B) is payable to a member living out
whose dependants reside with him in an isolated district.



"(6) In the case of a member who lives out in an isolated district and-

   (a)  whose dependants do not reside with him in that district;

   (b)  whose dependants reside with him in that district and one or more of
        whom are employed and are paid an allowance by their employer under
        similar conditions as apply to payment of district allowance under
        this regulation at a rate equal to, or higher than, the rate specified
        in column 2 of the table in sub-regulation (4B);

   (c)  whose dependants reside with him in that district and each of those
        dependants has an annual income in excess of the annual adult minimum
        wage;

   (d)  whose spouse resides with him in that district and is employed by the
        Commonwealth; or

   (e)  is unmarried and entitled to living out allowance,
the rate at which district allowance is payable to that member is the rate
specified in column 3 of the table in sub-regulation (4B).



"(7) The rate of district allowance specified in column 4 of the table in
sub-regulation (4B) is payable to-

   (a)  a member living in in an isolated district; or

   (b)  a member living out in an isolated district and who is not entitled to
        living out allowance.



"(8) Where an isolated district is removed from the list referred to in
regulation 102 of the Public Service Regulations or the classification of an
isolated district is lowered for the purposes of district allowance under that
regulation, this regulation applies to a member-

   (a)  who, immediately before that removal or that lowering of
        classification, resided in that isolated district;

   (b)  to whom district allowance has been paid or is payable in respect of
        his residence in that district during a period immediately preceding
        that
removal or lowering of classification; and      (c)  who continues to reside
in that isolated district after that removal or lowering of classification,
as if that district had not been removed from that list or been lowered in
classification until the expiration of-

   (d)  one year after that removal or lowering of classification; or

   (e)  the period during which the member continued to reside in that
        district after that removal or lowering of classification,
whichever is the sooner, and the rate of district allowance payable to the
member had been the rate ascertained in accordance with this regulation as in
force immediately before that removal or lowering of classification.".