Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00160:reg:3:p15
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00160
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 3 (pt 15/293)
Character Range: 1709886–1712764

2
      Warrant Officer Class 1
      Captain
3.    Major                                    3
      Lieutenant Colonel
4.    Colonel                                  4
      Brigadier
5.    Major General or above                   5

2.  An offer of a Service residence in the rent band listed for the member's rank group is taken to be a reasonable offer of a suitable Service residence, provided that it meets the other conditions for suitability set out in section 7.6.4.
3.  Despite subsection 1, if a Service residence is not available in the rent band listed for the member's rank group, the member may be allocated a Service residence in a rent band that is one rent band above or below the rent band listed for the member's rank group in the table in subsection 1.

    Note: An offer made in accordance with this subsection is usually a reasonable offer for the purposes of section 7.6.33, Acceptance or rejection of reasonable offer.
4.  The CDF may allocate a member a Service residence that is more than one level above the rent band for the member's rank group, if accommodation is not available at a lower rent band. The member's contribution is dealt with in the same way as other members allocated a Service residence above their rank group eligibility.

    Note: A member would not be allocated a Service residence two groups below their rank group eligibility. Rent band choice or housing with rent allowance give alternatives to allocation.

Division 5: Rent band choice homes

7.6.18 Purpose

1.  The purpose of this Division is to provide housing assistance that makes a wider range of housing choice available for members.
2.  Rent band choice allows a member to choose a residence in a better location to suit their lifestyle. The member chooses to occupy a rent band choice home that does not meet the minimum standard for a Service residence, but is in an attractive location.

7.6.19 Rent band choice

1.  Rent band choice is off-base accommodation made available by Defence Housing Australia that falls outside the minimum standard of a Service residence.

2.  A rent band choice home is classified under the rent band that the home's rent falls into.
3.  A member may be offered an available rent band choice home that corresponds to their rank group and a rent band in the table.

Item  If a member has a rank in this group...  then their rent band is...
1.    Corporal or lower                        1
      Sergeant
      Staff Sergeant
      Second Lieutenant
      Lieutenant
2.    Warrant Officer Class 2                  2
      Warrant Officer Class 1
      Captain
3.    Major                                    3
      Lieutenant Colonel
4.    Colonel                                  4
      Brigadier

4.  If a member accepts the offer of a rent band choice home, then that offer is taken to be a reasonable offer of a suitable