Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2022C00261:schedule:1:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2022C00261
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 1 (pt 2/8)
Character Range: 147911–150542

before the death of the deceased person;
"eligible service", in relation to a person, means service calculated in accordance with Schedule 6;
"Emergency Forces" has the same meaning as in the Defence Act 1903;
"employer benefit", in relation to a person, means the amount of employer benefit calculated in relation to that person in accordance with Schedule 8;
"final average salary", in relation to a person, means an amount calculated in accordance with Schedule 7;
"financial year" means a period of 12 months commencing on 1 July;
"foreign service member" means a person (not being a person who has been an eligible member of the Defence Force within the meaning of the 1973 Act):
     (a) who, before he or she became a member, had been a member of the armed forces of a country other than Australia; and
     (b) who rendered with those forces a period of service (in this definition called "full‑time service") of a kind similar to continuous full‑time service in the Defence Force for a period of or exceeding 12 months; and
     (c) with regard to whom CSC has, after consultation with the appropriate authority of the Defence Force, formed the opinion that the full‑time service or a part of that service of that person with those forces should be regarded as eligible service;
"Fund" means the fund established, and vested in CSC, by the Trust Deed;
"funded employer benefit", in relation to a person, means the sum of:
     (a) the amount of employer contributions paid by the Department, in relation to the person, under rule 10 less the amount of income tax paid or payable by the Fund in respect of those contributions; and
     (b) the interest (if any) in respect of the amount in paragraph (a) in accordance with a determination or determinations by CSC as to rates of interest and the method of allocation of interest to such amounts;
"higher duties allowance" means the allowance of that name determined under Part IIIA of the Defence Act 1903;
"invalidity", in relation to a person, includes physical or mental incapacity of the person to perform his or her duties;
"invalidity pension" means a pension payable under rule 27 or 28;
"invalidity pensioner" means a person who is entitled to invalidity pension or would be so entitled if payment of that pension had not been suspended under subrule 25(3);
"invalidity retiree" means a person who is about to be, or has been, retired from the Defence Force on the ground of invalidity and includes a person who, in accordance with rule 30, is to be treated as if he or she had been retired on that ground;
"lump sum maximum benefit limit", in relation to a person,