17.3.1 Introduction
Conditions of service
Guidance
Conditions of service depend on the nature of service (warlike or non-warlike) and the length of the deployment. This table is a summary of the conditions of service that apply.
| Item | Conditions of service |
Type of deployment |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| warlike < 6 months | warlike > 6 months | non-warlike < 6 months | non-warlike > 6 months | ||
| 1. | Removal and storage within Australia |
N |
Y |
N |
Y |
| 2. | Reimbursement for extra risk insurance expenses |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 3. | Deployment allowance |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 4. | Separation allowance |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 5. | Tax exemption (s.23AD, Income Tax Assessment Act 1936) |
Y |
Y |
N |
N |
| 6. | Possible exemption from taxation (s.23AG, Income Tax Assessment Act 1936) OR Overseas Defence Force rebate (s.79B, Income Tax Assessment Act 1936) |
N |
N |
Y |
Y |
| 7. | Additional recreation leave – non-warlike service |
N |
N |
Y |
Y |
| 8. | War service leave |
Y |
Y |
N |
N |
| 9. | Additional recreation leave - sea service - field service - flying duty |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 10. | Compensation for illness, injury and death |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 11. | Medals |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 12. | Relief out-of-country travel fare assistance |
N |
Y |
N |
Y |
| 13. | Pre-deployment leave and travel |
N |
Y |
N |
Y |
| 14. | Other allowance under Chapter 4 Part 2, if eligible, eg: - maritime allowance - field allowance - flying disability allowance |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
