Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1979 No. 85 MILITARY FINANCIAL REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 2

2. Regulation 118 of the Military Financial Regulations is amended-

   (a)  by omitting from sub-regulation (2) ", 116 ";

   (b)  by inserting after sub-regulation (3) the following sub-regulation:

" (3A) Where a member dies, the furniture and personal effects of the member
or his family may, instead of being dealt with under regulation 116, be, at
the expense of the Department-

   (a)  packed and transported to a store in Australia, or transported from a
        store in which the goods were stored immediately before the death of
        the member to a store in Australia;

   (b)  stored in a store referred to in paragraph (a) as a store to which
        goods may be transported, or stored in the store in which the goods
        were stored immediately before the death of the member (as the case
        requires) for a period commencing on the date on which the goods are
        put into store and ending when the member's family has obtained
        permanent accommodation or, where the member's family has not obtained
        permanent accommodation-

        (i)    3 months after the goods were put into store; or

        (ii)   3 months after the death of the member, whichever is the later;

   (c)  stored in that store, if the member's family has not obtained
        permanent accommodation, for such further period as the Minister
        considers reasonable, having regard to-

        (i)    the availability of permanent accommodation;

        (ii)   the efforts made by the member's family to obtain, and the
               ability of the member's family to search for, permanent
               accommodation; and

        (iii)  the cost of storing the furniture and effects in the store; and

   (d)  transported from that store to the place where the member's family is
        to take up permanent residence, and unpacked at that place.";
    (c)  by inserting at the end of paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (4) "
otherwise than by death ";

   (d)  by omitting paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (4); and

   (e)  by adding at the end of paragraph (d) of sub-regulation (4) " other
        than, in the case of a member who has died and has left a will, a sale
        necessitated by the terms of that will or ordered by a court in
        respect of that will ".