Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00160:reg:3:p290
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00160
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 3 (pt 290/293)
Character Range: 3133449–3138587

specified in paragraph a or b.

14A.1.4 Evacuation flights

1.   Subject to subsection 3, a person is eligible for an economy class flight from their location to one of the following if the CDF requires or permits them to evacuate.
     a.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   If the member is evacuated – the airport nearest the location where the member will work.
     b.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   If the member is evacuated at the same time as their dependants – the airport nearest the location where the member will work.
     c.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   In all other cases, the capital city nearest to the location where they will live.
     Note 1: If more than one dependant from the same family group are evacuated at the same time, the location under paragraph b must be the same location.
     Note 2: Flights include domestic flights that may not be connected with an international flight.
1A.  Subsection 1 also applies to a person who was evacuated on or after 27 March 2020 as though it were in force at that time.
2.   If more than one person in the same family group are evacuated at the same time and the following conditions apply, flights to the final destination may be broken once they have returned to Australia and completed an isolation period.
     a.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   All persons in the family group are required to isolate themselves.
     b.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   The final destination of the member and the dependants are different.
3.   If a person is required to evacuate and no reasonable economy class flights are available before the end of the period in which the person must have evacuated the location, the person is eligible for flights in the next higher class available.

     Note: Only economy class flights are available to people who evacuate to a location on a voluntary basis.

14A.1.5 End of evacuation flights

1.  Subject to subsection 3, any of the following persons is eligible for an economy class flight from their nearest capital city in Australia to their posting location overseas or location of short-term duty.
    a.                                                                                                                                                                                                                    A person who received an evacuation flight under section 14A.1.4.
    b.                                                                                                                                                                                                                    A person who meets all of the following.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          i.                                                                 They departed the posting location overseas to return to Australia before 19 March 2020.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          ii.                                                                They, or the member they accompanied to the posting location, continue to be posted to the posting location overseas that they left.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          iii.                                                               They have been unable to return to the member's posting location as a consequence of COVID-19 pandemic.
3.  A person is not eligible for an end of evacuation flight if they are a dependant whose evacuation period has ended under subparagraph c.ii or paragraph d of the definition of evacuation period in section 14A.1.2.

14A.1.6 Excess baggage

   A person who