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This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.
This 1947 regulation sets the peacetime pay-and-allowances regime for Australian military members (AIF, Permanent Military Forces, Citizen Military Forces on continuous service) while expressly excluding the Women’s Services. It prescribes rank-based pay, overseas and family support allowances, rules for rent, deductions and allotments, and disciplinary forfeitures.
It matters because it converted wartime pay into a sustainable peacetime structure while protecting anyone serving on 30 June 1947 from any reduction in total pay.
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STATUTORY RULES.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1945.*
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Defence Act 1903-1945.
Dated this sixth day of August, 1947.
W. J. McKELL
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
CYRIL CHAMBERS
Minister of State for the Army.
FINANCIAL (MILITARY) REGULATIONS.
Part I.—Preliminary.
Citation.
Repeal of Regulations.
(2.) The War Financial (Military Forces) Regulations (being Statutory Rules 1941, No. 218, as amended by Statutory Rules 1942, Nos. 136 and 347; 1943, No. 287; 1944, Nos. 65, 82, 111, 123 and 180; 1945, Nos. 29, 46 and 61; and 1946, No. 6) are repealed.
Parts.
Part I.—Preliminary.
Part II.—Pay and Pay Allowances.
Part III.—Allotments.
Part IV.—Miscellaneous.
Definitions.
“date of embarkation”, in relation to a member, means—
(a) the date upon which the member embarked on a ship or aircraft for service outside Australia, but shall not be deemed to refer to the embarkation of a
*Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on the 7th August, 1947.
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member who, subsequently, disembarked in Australia from that ship or aircraft and did not proceed forthwith in the same or another ship or aircraft for service outside Australia;
(b) the date of appointment, enlistment, transfer or secondment of a member who at the time of his appointment, enlistment, transfer or secondment was not in Australia; or
(c) the date on which a member, if travelling otherwise than by ship or aircraft, entered a country outside Australia for service in that country;
“member” means—
(a) any person (other than a member of the Women’s Services) appointed or transferred to, or enlisted in, or seconded for, service with, the Australian Imperial Force;
(b) any member of the Permanent Military Forces other than the Australian Imperial Force, the Corps of Staff Cadets or a Women’s Service;
(c) any member of the Citizen Military Forces who has been appointed or enlisted for continuous military service;
“pay allowances” includes exchange allowance, marriage allowance, provision allowance, separation allowance, living-out allowance, allowance in lieu of rations or in lieu of quarters or tentage, retention of lodging allowance and any allowance payable under regulation 29 of these Regulations;
“prescribed authority” means the Minister or any person appointed by him in writing to be a prescribed authority for the purposes of these Regulations.
Delegations.
(2.) The Military Board may delegate to any officer all or any of its powers and functions under these Regulations.
(3.) Every delegation under this regulation shall be revocable at will, and no delegation shall prevent the exercise or performance of any power or function by the Minister or the Military Board, as the case may be.
(4.) A delegation under this regulation shall not lapse or be revoked by the Minister ceasing to hold office by death or otherwise or by reason of the powers or functions of the Military Board becoming vested in an officer to command the Military Forces in time of war.
Power of Minister to authorize expenditure.
Part II.—Pay and Pay Allowances.
Pay.
7.—(1.) The daily rates of pay and of incremental advancement by subdivisions for members of the Australian Military Forces shall be in accordance with the following table:—
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