I, JAY ANDREW CLARKE, Acting Assistant Secretary People Policy and Employment Conditions, make this Determination under section 58B of the Defence Act 1903. Dated 19 September 2017
J A CLARKE Acting Assistant Secretary Defence People Group |
1 | Name |
1. | This Determination is Defence Determination 2017/31, Overseas education assistance and benchmark schools – amendment. |
2. | This Determination may also be cited as Defence Determination 2017/31. |
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 | 21 September 2017 |
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| Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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| Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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—Overseas education assistance and benchmark schools – amendment
Defence Determination 2016/19, Conditions of service
1 | Section 15.6.8 (Member this Division applies to) |
| Omit "dependant child", substitute "dependant, who is a child" |
2 | Subsection 15.6.10.1B (Education assistance benefit – general) |
| Omit the subsection, substitute: |
1B. | This subsection applies to a member who is posted to the USA. The CDF may decide that a suitable benchmark school is not available at a member's posting location. A member whose child attends a school at the posting location and pays compulsory tuition fees may be reimbursed the lesser of the two amounts each year. |
Item | If the child attends... | then the member may be reimbursed the lesser of the following amounts... |
1. | Pre-school/ Kindergarten | a. The compulsory tuition fees; or b. The amount of USD 6,799. |
2. | Primary school | a. The compulsory tuition fees; or b. The amount of USD 18,121. |
3. | Secondary school |
| Note: The reimbursable amount is instead of, and not in addition to, the amount reimbursable for the benchmark school for 'USA, elsewhere'. |
| See: Annex 15.6.A, Benchmark schools |
3 | Annex 15.6.A (Benchmark schools) table item 36 |
| Omit "section 15.1.5", substitute "section 15.1.6" |
4 | Annex 15.6.A (Benchmark schools) table item 36 |
Omit "Paragraph 15.6.10.1.b'", substitute "Paragraph 15.6.10.1B" |
Schedule 2—Transitional provisions
1 | Education assistance benefit – general |
1. | This section applies to a member on a long-term posting to the USA who meets all of the following conditions. | |
| a. | The member has a child who is a dependant who attended a pre-school or kindergarten between 2 July 2016 and the commencement of this Determination. |
| b. | The member paid compulsory tuition fees. |
2. | The member is eligible for the reimbursement of the lesser of the two amounts as if subsection 15.6.10.1B, as substituted by this Determination, had applied. |
