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Division 1 - Definitions - general : Part 3 : Department of Defence
Division 1 - Definitions - general
Division 1 : Definitions – general
Note: If a term is not defined anywhere in this manual or other legislation, it has the same meaning as in the Macquarie Dictionary.
See: Chapter 12 Part 3, Definitions for Chapters 12 to 17
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | U | V | W
Includes an allowance made under section 58B or section 58H of the Defence Act 1903, unless expressly stated otherwise
For a removal, baggage includes parts of a person's furniture and effects that they choose not to be carried by a contracted removalist.
1.3.14 Compulsory retirement age
Compulsory retirement age means a member's compulsory retirement age under the Defence (Personnel) Regulations 2002.
Note: In the total workforce model, a member on continuous full-time service may be described as a member in Service category 6 or 7. A member who is in Service category 3, 4 or 5 and also on Service option C is also on continuous full-time service.
1. 2000 to 2009 continuous full-time service.
2. 2010 to 2014 Reserve service.
3. 2015 continuous full-time service.
Section 12.3.16, Posting period overseas
Patterns of service under a flexible service determination can fall into two categories.
Hours or days in a fortnight. This is known as a flexible service determination (days per fortnight pattern of service).
Weeks in a month. This is known as a flexible service determination (weeks per month pattern of service).
1. South Australia Navy Adelaide.
2. Queensland Navy Brisbane, Cairns or Townsville.
Army, posted to a seagoing ship Brisbane or Townsville.
3. New South Wales Navy Sydney or Nowra.
Army, posted to a seagoing ship Sydney.
4. Victoria Navy Melbourne.
5. Tasmania Navy Hobart.
6. Western Australia Navy Fremantle.
Army, posted to a seagoing ship Perth.
7. Northern Territory Navy Darwin.
8. Australian Capital Territory Navy Canberra.
If there is more than one option in the table in subsection 1, the CDF may decide which of the options will apply. The CDF must have regard to both these criteria.
then the locations that may be selected are...
1. a member of the Navy Adelaide
Fremantle Hobart
2. a member of the Army posted to a seagoing ship Adelaide
Persons who can make the decisions under subsection 1.3.28.2 and subsection 1.3.28.4 on behalf of the CDF:
Director/Commanding Officer/Officer Commanding not below MAJ(E)/APS 6 in the member's direct chain of command or supervision
Losing location
then their losing location is the location in Australia...
1. a member with dependants on their first removal after joining or rejoining the Permanent Forces of the current or last permanent home of their dependants when they joined or rejoined.
2. any other member with dependants to which they were last granted a removal for their dependants.
3. a member with dependants (unaccompanied)
4. a member without dependants to which they were last granted a removal.
Section 4 of the Act: 'Member includes any officer, sailor, soldier and airman.'
Section 1.3.72A, Service category
Section 1.3.72B, Service option C
Note: In the total workforce model, a member of the Permanent Forces may be described as a member in Service category 6 or 7. A member of the Reserves on continuous full-time service may be described as a member in Service category 3, 4 or 5 who is also on Service option C.
Non-warlike service means both these kinds of service for the purposes of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986.
A nonworking period for a member on a flexible service determination (weeks per month pattern of service) is the period that is not the member's pattern of service. This is the period when the member is on leave without pay (flexible service determination).
See: Chapter 5 Part 10 Division 1 section 5.10.5A, Leave without pay (flexible Determination)
There are no minimum prescribed working hours for the ADF. Members on continuous full-time service are paid on a 24-hour day, seven-day week basis.
For a member on a flexible service determination, the normal working hours are stated in the determination.
Part 1 Division 3, Definitions and key concepts
Pattern of service means the hours of duty or the periods of duty prescribed under a flexible service determination.
Note: The definition in that Act reads as follows.
"period of prospective service, in relation to a member to whom retention benefit is payable or has been paid, means the period:
if the member is or was, at the time when the benefit becomes or became payable, subject to a return of service obligation — immediately after the end of the period of service that the member is required to complete because of that obligation; or
if subparagraph (i) does not apply — on benefit computation day in relation to the member; and
ending at the end of:
the day on which the member will, if he or she does not cease beforehand to serve in the Permanent Forces:
complete 20 years of continuous eligible service; or
if, at the time when, or at any time after, the benefit becomes or became payable, the member is, or was, subject to a return of service obligation — complete a period of continuous eligible service that, excluding the period of service that the member is required to serve because of that obligation, is equal to 20 years; or
the day on which the member will reach his or her retiring age;
This may not necessarily be the quickest route to travel.
This subparagraph displaces the general principle in section 35 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.
The member's daily attendance for duty would not be affected by any additional travelling time.
Related Information: While this definition sets the posting location for most benefits, some members may get benefits based on other locations.
Persons who can make the decision under paragraph 1.3.55.1.b on behalf of the CDF:
The member's dependants may be granted a removal to the posting location and arrive there before the member. In this case, the posting period starts on the day the dependants arrive.
The member's dependants may be granted a removal from the posting location and depart after the member. In this case, the posting period ends on the day the dependants depart.
The circumstances of the member's removal to or from the location.
Persons who can make the decision under subsection 1.3.57.6 on behalf of the CDF:
Regional Director in a Housing Management Centre
Removals Team Leader in the Housing Management Centre
National Relocations Manager
National Operations – Removals Manager
Contract Manager Relocation Services
Refitting port means the port where a ship refits, if this is different from the ship's home port, section 1.3.29.
The CDF has directed that the areas in the following table are restricted destinations.
Return of service obligation means a period of service determined by the relevant Service Chief under the Defence (Personnel) Regulations 2002. It is period of service a member must complete in return for some kinds of service opportunities.
Undergoing expensive training.
Getting marketable skills through Service training.
Being employed on special duties.
Serving outside Australia.
Travelling to Australia with any dependants at Commonwealth expense if the member has joined the ADF from outside Australia.
See: Military Personnel Policy Manual
Part 2 Chapter 1 paragraphs 1.11 to 1.16, Service obligations
Chapter 7 Part 4, Arrangements for service in the Australian Defence Force
1. compassionate leave
See: Chapter 5 Part 9 Division 2 endanger the member's life.
2. Australians dangerously ill scheme
Chapter 17 Part 4 do any or all of the following.
Significantly disable the person.
Materially affect the person's future life.
1.3.72A Service category
A Service category is part of the total workforce model. It groups members into categories that share the same, mutual Service obligations and conditions of service. It may also be known as a SERCAT.
A member is placed into one of six Service categories.
Note: The following descriptions only apply for conditions of service purposes.
1. Service category 1
SERCAT 1 This category is reserved for some APS employees.
2. Service category 2
SERCAT 2 Reserve members who do not render service and have no service obligation. They are liable for call out.
3. Service category 3
SERCAT 3 Reserve members who are available for voluntary service, or are rendering service. This category has a level of service obligation applied at a Service's discretion. They are liable for call out.
4. Service category 4
SERCAT 4 Reserve members who are available for voluntary service to provide capability at short notice. The level and pattern of their service obligation is applied at a Service's discretion. They are liable for call out.
5. Service category 5
SERCAT 5 Reserve members voluntarily rendering a specified pattern of service. The level of service obligation is applied at a Service's discretion. This category carries a liability for call out.
6. Service category 6
SERCAT 6 Permanent Force members rendering part-time service under a flexible service determination. The members have continuous full-time service obligations in the same way as a member in Service category 7, including the inherent liability to serve on a full-time basis if required to do so.
7. Service category 7
SERCAT 7 Permanent Force members rendering full-time service.
A member may also be place in a Service option.
1.3.72B Service option C
Service option C describes a member who is in the Reserves and is also on continuous full-time service. It is part of the total workforce model.
Example: A member in Service category 3 who is also on Service option C.
Service option C may also be known as SERVOP C.
Training commitment means an obligation for a member to do specified reserve service for a specified period. The obligation is created under regulation 100 of the Defence (Personnel) Regulations 2002.
Note: That regulation reads as follows.
A Chief may determine a training period for each category of the Reserves in the Chief's Service.
A Chief may determine requirements for the training that is to be carried out during a training period.
A Chief may determine that a member is not required to comply with a requirement determined under subregulation (2).
A member is bound to render, in each training period, service for the required period.
Note 1: See regulation 69
Note 2: Different training periods, or training requirements, may be determined for:
different parts of the categories of the Reserves; or
different classes of members of the Reserves; or
See: Acts Interpretation Act 1901, subsection 33 (3A)."
Note: The travel card is a Diner's Club card. When the member pays for their Defence travel with the card, the cost is charged direct to the Commonwealth.
Unpaid leave menas any of the following leave types.
Part-time leave without pay means a period of part-time unpaid leave.
If a member is on a period of unpaid leave and receives the payment under the Government Paid Parental Leave scheme during that period, the payment does not change the status of the member's unpaid leave to paid leave.
Warlike service means service in the Defence Force of a kind determined as warlike service for the purposes of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986.