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Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004
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185 Increases in pay and allowances
(1) This section applies for the purposes of the following sections:
(a) section 91;
(b) section 96;
(c) section 104;
(d) section 109;
(e) section 114;
(f) section 141;
(g) section 144;
(h) section 149;
(i) section 154;
(j) section 161;
(k) section 164;
(l) section 168;
(m) section 173.
(2) The amount of pay that a person would have earned for a period as a member of the Defence Force, and the amount of a pay‑related allowance that a person would have been paid for a period, include the following amounts that would have applied for the period:
(a) the amount of any increase in the person’s pay by way of an increment in a range of pay;
(b) the amount of any increase in the person’s pay or a pay‑related allowance as a result of:
(i) the operation of a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory; or
(ii) the making, alteration or operation of a national minimum wage order (within the meaning given by the Fair Work Act 2009), or an award, order, determination or industrial agreement, or the doing of any other act or thing, under such a law.