Defence Determination, Conditions of service Amendment Determination (No. 20) 2025
I, BRIGADIER KIRK LLOYD, Director General, People Policy and Employment Conditions, make the following Determination under section 58B of the Defence Act 1903.
Dated 4 December 2025
BRIG Kirk Lloyd
Director General
People Policy and Employment Conditions
Defence People Group
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Schedules
Schedule 1—Miscellaneous amendment
Defence Determination 2016/19, Conditions of service
This instrument is the Defence Determination, Conditions of service Amendment Determination (No. 20) 2025.
1. Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
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1. Whole of this Instrument | The day the instrument is registered. |
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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.
2. Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.
This instrument is made under section 58B of the Defence Act 1903.
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
1 | After section 7.8.1 |
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| In this Part, the following apply. | ||
| Boarding in a home has the meaning given in section 7.8.4. | ||
| Change affected trial member has the meaning given in section 7.8.2A. | ||
| Sharing a home has the meaning given in section 7.8.3. | ||
| Trial location means any of the following establishments. | ||
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| a. | Defence Plaza Sydney. |
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| b. | HMAS Kuttabul. |
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| c. | HMAS Penguin. |
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| d. | HMAS Waterhen. |
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| e. | HMAS Watson. |
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| f. | Randwick Barracks. |
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| g. | Fleet Base East. |
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| h. | Victoria Barracks Sydney. |
| Trial member has the meaning given in section 7.8.4A. | ||
| Change affected trial member means a member who meets all of the following. | ||
| a. | They were a trial member who was sharing with another trial member (the leaving member). Note: Trial member is defined in section 7.8.4A. | |
| b. | The leaving member ceased being a trial member because they vacate the home for any of the following reasons. | |
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| i. | They gained accompanied resident family. |
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| ii. | For a Service reason. |
| c. | They remain in the home they were receiving rent allowance for immediately before the leaving member vacated the home. | |