Div 4Higher Duties Allowance.

Division 4.—Higher Duties Allowance.

Higher duties allowance.

28.—(1.) Subject to the succeeding sub-regulations of this regulation and to such conditions as the Military Board determines, where a member holding a rank lower than the rank for a position on the establishment of a part of the Military Forces performs temporarily the full duties of the position, an allowance, called “higher duties allowance”, is payable to the member.

(2.) Higher duties allowance is not payable unless the period for which the acting member performs the duties of the position is for six or more consecutive working days.

(3.) A day for which the member is absent from duty on a unit rest day or a public holiday does not count as a working day for the purpose of the qualifying period referred to in the last preceding sub-regulation, but shall not be deemed to interrupt the continuity of that qualifying period.

(4.) Higher duties allowance is not payable in respect of a period for which the acting member is absent from duty on recreation leave during the period of his acting in the position.

(5.) Higher duties allowance is payable in respect of any period for which the acting member is absent from duty on a unit rest day or public holiday, or on emergency leave or while sick not exceeding a total of three days during the period of his acting in the position if, immediately after the absence from duty, the member continues to perform the duties of the position.

(6.) Higher duties allowance is payable from and including the day on which the acting member performs the duties of the position.

(7.) Higher duties allowance is not payable unless the approving authority is satisfied that—

(a) the duties of the position cannot be distributed among other personnel;

(b) the acting member is performing competently the full duties of the position; and

(c) real and definite responsibilities are involved in that performance.

(8.) The Military Board may appoint an officer to be an approving authority for the purposes of the last preceding sub-regulation.

(9.) In this regulation, “promoted” includes promoted to a provisional, probationary, temporary or acting rank.

Rates of higher duties allowance.

29.—(1.) Where, under the last preceding regulation, higher duties allowance is payable to a member, the rate of allowance is the rate payable in accordance with the provisions of this regulation that are applicable to the circumstances.

(2.) The rate of higher duties allowance is a rate per day equal to the amount of the difference between the rate of active pay per day payable to the acting member in respect of the rank that he holds and the rate of active pay per day payable to a member on promotion to the rank for the position.