This instrument is the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation (Pay-related Allowances) Determination 2017.

(1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	The day after this instrument is registered.	6 May 2017

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3 Authority

This instrument is made under subsection 11(1) of the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004.

4 Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

5 Definitions

In this instrument:

Act means the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004.

section 58B determination allowance means an allowance paid under a determination made under section 58B of the Defence Act 1903.

section 58H determination allowance means an allowance paid under a determination made under section 58H of the Defence Act 1903.

Part 2—Pay‑related allowances

For the purposes of subsection 11(1) of the Act, a section 58B determination allowance specified in column 1 of an item in the following table is a pay‑related allowance for the purposes of the Act:

(a) from the start of the day specified in column 2 of the item; and

(b) if another day is specified in column 3 of the item—until the end of that other day.

Pay‑related allowances
Item	Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
1	ADF district allowance	1 September 2005
2	Allowance for service in Antarctica	1 July 2004	30 May 2005
3	Antarctic allowance	31 May 2005
4	Antarctic common duties allowance	31 May 2005
5	Antarctic parity allowance	31 May 2005
6	Attraction allowance—Papua New Guinea	31 May 2005
7	Bare base allowance	1 July 2004	31 August 2005
8	Cadet forces allowance	31 May 2005	30 June 2016
9	Civil practice support allowance	1 July 2004
10	Defence attaché Baghdad allowance	31 May 2005	5 January 2014
11	Defence attaché Baghdad allowance	1 August 2014
12	Defence attaché Kabul allowance	6 January 2014
13	Deployment allowance	1 July 2004
14	District allowance	1 July 2004	31 August 2005
15	Hardship allowance	1 July 2004
16	Higher duties allowance	1 July 2004
17	International campaign allowance	1 July 2004	1 January 2015
18	Port Wakefield allowance	1 July 2004
19	Retention allowance	1 July 2004	4 March 2016
20	Scherger allowance	1 September 2005
21	Separation allowance	1 July 2004	27 June 2007
22	Trainees dependant allowance	1 July 2004
23	Woomera allowance	1 July 2004	3 December 2014

For the purposes of subsection 11(1) of the Act, a section 58H determination allowance specified in column 1 of an item in the following table is a pay‑related allowance for the purposes of the Act:

(a) from the start of the day specified in column 2 of the item; and

(b) if another day is specified in column 3 of the item—until the end of that other day.

Pay‑related allowances
Item	Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
1	Adventurous training instructor allowance	1 July 2004
2	Aircrew capability allowance	1 October 2009	25 February 2016
3	Air traffic control capability allowance	1 October 2009	25 February 2016
4	Allowance for specialist operations	13 December 2007	7 October 2015
5	Arduous conditions allowance	1 July 2004	11 September 2013
6	Arduous conditions instructor allowance	12 September 2013
7	Boarding party allowance	30 January 2014
8	Clearance diver allowance	8 October 2015
9	Diving allowance	1 July 2004
10	Field allowance	1 July 2004
11	Flight duties allowance	1 July 2004	19 February 2006
12	Flying allowance	1 July 2004	19 February 2006
13	Flying and flight duties allowance	20 February 2006	11 September 2013
14	Flying disability allowance	12 September 2013
15	Hard lying allowance	1 July 2004	29 January 2014
16	Language proficiency allowance	1 July 2004
17	Maritime disability allowance	30 January 2014
18	Maritime sustainability allowance	30 January 2014
19	Medical grade 4 allowance	1 July 2004	2 December 2004
20	Navy capability allowance	9 April 2008	3 April 2017
21	Navy medical grades (additional responsibility) allowance	2 December 2004	15 December 2005
22	Officer aviation remuneration structure allowance	1 January 2013
23	Paratrooper allowance	1 July 2004
24	Recruit instructor disability allowance	10 March 2016
25	Recruit instructor sustainability allowance	10 March 2016
26	Reserve allowance	1 July 2008
27	Reserve service allowance	1 September 2006	30 June 2008
28	Seagoing allowance	1 July 2004	29 January 2014
29	Separation allowance	28 June 2007
30	Service allowance	1 July 2004
31	Special action forces allowance	1 July 2004	12 December 2007
32	Special forces disability allowance	13 December 2007
33	Special forces sustainability allowance	24 September 2015
34	Specialist operations allowance	1 July 2004	12 December 2007
35	Submarine capability assurance payment	29 January 2016
36	Submarine escape allowance	1 July 2004	11 September 2013
37	Submarine escape disability allowance	12 September 2013
38	Submarine service allowance	1 July 2004	29 January 2014
39	Trainee allowance	8 January 2009
40	Unpredictable explosives allowance	8 October 2015