Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2016C00964:section:33:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2016C00964
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 33 (pt 1/5)
Character Range: 34595–37216

33  Delegation
 (1) The Minister may, by writing under the Minister's hand, delegate to any person all or any of the Minister's powers and functions under this Act (except this power of delegation) so that the delegate may exercise the powers and functions specified in the instrument of delegation.
 (2) Every delegation under this section shall be revocable at will and no delegation shall prevent the exercise of any power or function by the Minister.

The Schedule—Classes of members disqualified for war gratuity
 1 Any member:
 (a) who has been absent without leave for a period of thirty days or more and has not, prior to such date as is prescribed in relation to the class of members in which the member is included, surrendered or been apprehended;
 (b) who, after such date as is prescribed in relation to the class of members in which the member is included, has absented himself or herself without leave for a continuous period of thirty days or more;
 (c) who is proved to the satisfaction of a prescribed authority to have been discharged or to have had his or her appointment terminated in consequence of wounds intentionally inflicted by himself or herself or illness intentionally induced by himself or herself;
 (d) who being an officer was, by sentence of court‑martial, cashiered or dismissed from His Majesty's service or from the Defence Force or whose commission was cancelled, or whose appointment was terminated, by sentence of court‑martial, or who was retired and such retirement was entered in Service records as being on account of an offence or misconduct of any kind committed during his or her service; or
 (e) who, by reason of any sentence or award of penal servitude, imprisonment or detention imposed on him or her while on the voyage for service overseas or while in a training camp, a ship or a depot, was unable to join a unit in the field, a ship or a depot (other than a unit or depot to which the member was posted for the purpose of undergoing penal servitude, imprisonment or detention, or a training camp or training depot) unless:
 (i) he or she had, prior to the date of the sentence or award, completed a period of overseas qualifying service; and
 (ii) in the opinion of a prescribed authority, the circumstances of that service are such as would not justify his or her being disqualified for war gratuity.
 2 Any member of the Naval Forces:
 (a) who has been discharged "Run";
 (b) who has been dismissed from His Majesty's Service with disgrace;
 (c) who has been dismissed from His Majesty's Service;
 (d) who has been discharged from the Naval Service as "Services no