Statutory Rules

1978 No. 175

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903, THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910 AND THE AIR FORCE ACT 1923*

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, the Naval Defence Act 1910 and the Air Force Act 1923.

Dated this twenty-first day of September 1978.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Defence

AMENDMENTS OF THE CADET FORCES REGULATIONS†

Home training allowance

1. Regulation 18 of the Cadet Forces Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting sub-regulation (1) and substituting the following sub-regulation:

“ (1) Subject to regulation 20 and sub-regulation (4), an allowance to be known as home training allowance is payable to an officer or instructor in respect of the month, or each of the months, not exceeding 10, in a financial year, during the whole of which he was an officer or instructor.”; and

(b) by omitting sub-regulation (4) and substituting the following sub-regulation:

“ (4) An allowance shall not be payable to a member under sub-regulation (1)—

(a) in respect of 1 month—if he attended less than 75 per cent of drills and parades held in his unit during that month; and

† Statutory Rules 1977, No. 206 amended by Statutory Rules 1977, No. 275.

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(b) in respect of 2 or more months—if he attended—

(i) less than 75 per cent of the total number of drills and parades held in his unit during those months; or

(ii) less than 50 per cent of drills and parades held in his unit during each of those months,

being drills and parades that he was notified to attend, other than drills and parades held during continuous training.”.

Administration allowance

2. Regulation 19 of the Cadet Forces Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting sub-regulation (1) and substituting the following sub-regulation—

“ (1) Subject to regulation 20 and sub-regulation (4), an allowance to be known as administration allowance is payable to an officer or instructor—

(a) who is not ordinarily required to attend drills or parades in respect of which he would be entitled to home training allowance; and

(b) who performs duties connected with the administration, in a particular region, of a cadet force,

in respect of the month, or each of the months, not exceeding 10, in a financial year, during the whole of which he was an officer or instructor.”; and

(b) by omitting sub-regulation (4) and substituting the following sub-regulation:

“ (4) An allowance shall not be payable to a member under sub-regulation (1)—

(a) in respect of 1 month—if he attended for duty on less than 75 per cent of the days in that month on which he was notified to attend at his regional headquarters for the performance of administrative duties; and

(b) in respect of 2 or more months—if he attended—

(i) on less than 75 per cent of the total number of the days in those months on which he was notified so to attend; or

(ii) on less than 50 per cent of the days in each of those months on which he was notified so to attend.”.

Application

3. The Cadet Forces Regulations as amended by these Regulations apply in relation to attendance for duty by an officer or instructor after 30 September 1976.

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