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Defence Determination, Conditions of service Amendment Determination (No. 13) 2025

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Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

Defence Determination, Conditions of service Amendment Determination (No. 13) 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 7 August 2025

BRIG Kirk Lloyd

Director General People Policy and Employment Conditions Defence People Group

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Christmas stand-down amendments

Defence Determination 2016/19, Conditions of service

Schedule 2—Travel and meal allowance amendments

Defence Determination 2016/19, Conditions of service

Schedule 3—Payment of leave credits to a member diagnosed with a terminal illness amendments

Defence Determination 2016/19, Conditions of service

Schedule 4—Excess baggage amendments

Defence Determination 2016/19, Conditions of service

Schedule 5—Deployment allowance amendments

Defence Determination 2016/19, Conditions of service

Schedule 6—Miscellaneous amendments

Defence Determination 2016/19, Conditions of service

Schedule 7—Transitional provisions

1 Name

This instrument is the Defence Determination, Conditions of service Amendment Determination (No. 13) 2025.

2 Commencement

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.

Commencement information
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
Provisions Commencement Date/Details
1. Sections 1 to 4 The day the instrument is registered.
1. Schedule 1 14 August 2025
1. Schedule 2 9 October 2025
1. Schedules 3 to 7 14 August 2025

Section 1 - Defence Determination, Conditions of service Amendment Determination (No. 13) 2025 - Defence Determination, Conditions of service Amendment Determination (No. 13) 2025 | Zoe

1	Paragraph 4.5.9.a
	Omit “$30.35”, substitute “$31.15”.
2	Paragraph 4.5.9.b
	Omit “$13.90”, substitute “$14.20”.
3	Paragraph 4.5.9.c
	Omit “$34.65”, substitute “$35.55”.
4	Paragraph 4.5.9.d
	Omit “$59.75”, substitute “$61.30”.
5	Subsection 7.5.24.2 (table)
	Repeal the table, substitute:

7	Subsection 9.5.10.2
	Omit “$62.05”, substitute “$63.60”.
8	Subparagraph 9.5.20.2.d.ii
	Omit “$12.00”, substitute “$12.25”.
9	Paragraph 9.5.22.2.c
	Omit “$12.00”, substitute “$12.25”.
10	Subsection 9.5.39.2 (table item 5)
	Omit “$83.85”, substitute “$85.75”.
11	Paragraph 9.5.41.3.c
	Omit “$12.00”, substitute “$12.25”.
12	Part 1 of Annex 9.5.A (table)
	Repeal the table, substitute:

Item	Column A<br>Location	Column B<br>Brigadier or higher<br>($)	Column C<br>Colonel or lower<br>($)
1.	Adelaide	199.00	149.00
2.	Brisbane	241.00	181.00
3.	Canberra	221.00	166.00
4.	Darwin<br>(April to November)	296.00	222.00
5.	Darwin<br>(December to March)	229.00	172.00
6.	Hobart	195.00	146.00
7.	Melbourne	224.00	168.00
8.	Perth	216.00	162.00
9.	Sydney	297.00	223.00
10.	High-cost country centres	See Part 2	See Part 2
11.	Medium-cost country centres (see Part 3)	169.00	141.00
12.	Other country centres	155.00	129.00

Item	Column A<br>Location	Column B<br>Breakfast<br>($)	Column C<br>Lunch<br>($)	Column D<br>Dinner<br>($)	Column E<br>Incidentals<br>($)
1.	Capital cities and high-cost country centres	34.75	39.10	66.65	24.50
2.	Medium-cost country centres and other country centres	31.15	35.55	61.30	24.50

Item	Column A<br>Member’s rank	Column B<br>Rent band
1.	Corporal or lower<br>Sergeant<br>Staff Sergeant<br>Second Lieutenant<br>Lieutenant	1
2.	Warrant Officer Class 2<br>Warrant Officer Class 1<br>Captain	2
3.	Major<br>Lieutenant Colonel	3
4.	Colonel<br>Brigadier	4
5.	Major General or above	5

12	Subsection 7.6.19.3
	Repeal the subsection, substitute:
3.	A member who holds a rank in column A of the following table is eligible for an available rent band choice home with the rent band in column B of the same item.

Item	Column A<br>Member’s rank	Column B<br>Rent band
1.	Corporal or lower<br>Sergeant<br>Staff Sergeant<br>Second Lieutenant<br>Lieutenant	1
2.	Warrant Officer Class 2<br>Warrant Officer Class 1<br>Captain	2
3.	Major<br>Lieutenant Colonel	3
4.	Colonel<br>Brigadier	4

1. This section applies to a member and their dependants who have been directed to withdraw at short notice from a posting location overseas to return to Australia on a permanent basis.
1. A withdrawal under this section does not include any of the following.
a. A withdrawal in connection with an evacuation under Division 1.
b. An early withdrawal of a member from a long‑term posting that is not a withdrawal at short notice.
1. The member is eligible for payment of an amount for their financial losses resulting from the withdrawal that the CDF is satisfied is reasonable taking all of the following into consideration.
a. The circumstances in which the member leaves the long-term posting.
b. The length of time given to the member to leave the posting location.
c. The remaining period of the expected duration of the posting at the time of leaving the posting location.
d. The extent to which the member entered into unavoidable financial commitments in the reasonable expectation that the posting would run its full term.
e. Any other costs reasonably incurred by the member in the reasonable expectation that the posting would run its full term.
f. Any other factor relevant to the posting.
Note: Chapters 14, 15 and 16 continue to apply to a withdrawal under this section.
1. For the purpose of this section, a withdrawal at short notice means a withdrawal from a posting location overseas that does not allow a member enough time for personal arrangements to be completed before departure in accordance with normal practice.
17 Subsection 15.5.17.1
Omit “an chaperone”, substitute “a chaperone”.
18 Section 15.6.17C
After “attends a”, insert “preschool, kindergarten,”.
19 Before subsection 15.6.17D.1
Insert:
1A. This section does not apply to a member who is not eligible for a compulsory tuition fee benefit under section 15.6.10 for the child.Note: The benefit under section 15.6.10 applies to the child’s usual school, not the school holiday program.
20 Subsection 16.2A.3B.1
Omit “qualifying locations”, insert “qualifying locations.”.
21 Amendments of listed provisions relating to hyphenation

	In this Schedule, the following apply.
	Defence Determination means Defence Determination 2016/19, Conditions of service, as in force from time to time.
	Trainee’s dependant allowance means trainee’s dependant allowance under Division 1A of Part 8 of Chapter 4 of the Defence Determination.

1.	A member is eligible for the payment of deployment allowance at the rate specified in the following table for each day of duty they performed in the land, territorial waters and superjacent airspace of, and continuously controlled by, Ukraine on Operation KUDU between 18 June 2022 and the commencement of Schedule 5 of this Determination.

2.	The benefit under this clause is reduced by any amount of deployment allowance the member has received for duty performed in the specified area under section 17.7.6 of the Defence Determination between 18 June 2022 and the commencement of this Determination.

1.	This clause applies to a member would have been eligible for trainee’s dependant allowance had the changes made by item 9 of Schedule 6 of this Determination been in force between 1 July 2025 and the commencement of Schedule 6 of this Determination.
2.	The member is eligible for trainee’s dependant allowance as though item 9 of Schedule 6 of this Determination been in force at the time.

1.	This clause applies to a member who was on a long-term posting overseas with their child and the child attended a preschool or kindergarten school holiday program between 19 May 2025 and the commencement of this Determination.
2.	Division 2A of Chapter 15 Part 6 of the Defence Determination applies to the member as though the change made by items 18 and 19 of Schedule 6 of this Determination had applied at the time.