Defence Determination 2017/27, Health support allowance – amendment

I, LISA ANNETTE ARNOLD, Acting Assistant Secretary People Policy and Employment Conditions, make this Determination under section 58B of the Defence Act 1903.

Dated 16 August 2017

L A ARNOLD

Acting Assistant Secretary
People Policy and Employment Conditions

Defence People Group

1	Name
1.	This Determination is Defence Determination 2017/27, Health support allowance – amendment.
2.	This Determination may also be cited as Defence Determination 2017/27.
2	Commencement
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.

	Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 section 58B of the Defence Act 1903.
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	Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments to health support allowance

Defence Determination 2016/19, Conditions of service

1	Section 4.9.17 (Active and Specialist Reserve health support allowance)
	Omit section, substitute:
4.9.17	Health support allowance – Members on Reserve service
1.	A member of the Reserves who meets all of the following conditions during a financial year may be eligible for a payment of $600 under this section.
	a.	They serve 20 days of Reserve service during the financial year.
		See: Chapter 1 Part 3 Division 1 section 1.3.67, Reserve service
	b.	They have not been paid an allowance under section 4.9.16 during the same financial year.
2.	To be entitled to the payment a member must meet all of the following conditions before 30 January of the following financial year.
	a.	The member must make a declaration in the form and manner authorised by the CDF.
	b.	The member must provide the information specified by the CDF.
	c.	The member must provide the documents specified by the CDF.
3.	Defence is authorised to collect sensitive information for the purposes of this benefit.
	See: Australian Privacy Principle 3, Schedule 1 to the Privacy Act 1988

Schedule 2—Savings

1	Savings provision
1.	In this section the following definitions apply.
	a.	Former Principal Determination means Defence Determination 2016/19 that was in force immediately before the commencement of schedule 1 of this Determination.
	b.	Previous financial year means 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017.
2.	This section applies to a member who meets all of the following conditions.
	a.	The member was in one of the following groups immediately before the repeal of the Defence (Personnel) Regulation 2002.
		i.	The Active Reserve.
		ii.	The Specialist Reserve.
		iii.	The Army Regional Force Surveillance List.
		iv.	The Local Observer Element of the Army.
	b.	The member met the time conditions of eligibility under subsection 4.9.17.5 of the former Principal Determination during the previous financial year.
	c.	The member made an annual health declaration or submitted a confirmation of a health examination appointment as required by subsection 4.9.17.4 of the former Principal Determination.
3.	The rules under subsections 4.9.17.2 to 4.9.17.7 of the former Principal Determination apply to the member in relation to the previous financial year as if the amendments in schedule 1 of this Determination did not commence.