Part A: Administration

1. This Determination is DFRT Determination No. 11 of 2013, ADF Allowances.

2. This Determination may also be cited as DFRT Determination No. 11 of 2013.

This Determination commences on 12 September 2013.

1. A Determination listed in the following table, as amended, and in force at the date listed in the table, is repealed from that date.

   List of determinations

   Item	Title	Date of repeal
   1.	DFRT Determination No. 26 of 2008, Trainee Allowance	11 September 2013
   2.	DFRT Determination No. 11 of 1994, Service Allowance	11 September 2013
   3.	DFRT Determination No. 21 of 2006, Separation Allowance	11 September 2013
   4.	DFRT Determination No. 15 of 1996, Adventurous Training Instructor Allowance	11 September 2013
   5.	DFRT Determination No. 12 of 1997, Arduous Conditions Allowance	11 September 2013
   6.	DFRT Determination No. 6 of 1998, Diving Allowance	11 September 2013
   7.	DFRT Determination No. 13 of 2008, Flying and Flight Duties Allowance	11 September 2013
   8.	DFRT Determination No. 21 of 1999, Submarine Escape Allowance	11 September 2013
   9.	DFRT Determination No. 1 of 1996, Seagoing Allowance	29 January 2014
   10.	DFRT Determination No. 10 of 1996, Hard Lying Allowance	29 January 2014
   11.	DFRT Determination No. 14 of 2008, Submarine Service Allowance	29 January 2014
   12.	DFRT Determination No. 22 of 2008, Reserve Allowance	25 June 2014
   13.	DFRT Determination No. 5 of 2008, Special Forces Disability Allowance	23 September 2015
   14.	DFRT Determination No. 4 of 2008, Allowance for Specialist Operations	7 October 2015
   15.	DFRT Determination No. 2 of 2001, Paratrooper Allowance	21 October 2015
   16.	DFRT Determination No. 14 of 1995, Field Allowance	24 February 2016

    

Part A Administration

Part B General Disability Allowance

  Division B.3 – Separation allowance

Part D Other Allowances

  Division D.1 Submarine capability assurance payment

  Division D.2 Navy Retention incentive payment

Part F Allowance Rates

This Determination sets out the allowances to be paid to members of the Australian Defence Force

This table defines terms used in this Determination.

1. This Determination does not limit the capacity for Defence Determination 2016/19, Conditions of service, as in force from time to time, made under section 58B of the Defence Act 1903, to provide for administrative matters relating to the payment of allowances.

   _{Note: Administrative matters includes the forfeiture and suspension of allowances.}

2. The fortnightly rate of an annual rate of an allowance is worked out using the following steps.

   Steps for working out fortnightly rate of annual allowance

   Step	Action
   1.	Find the annual rate of allowance payable to the member.
   2.	Divide that figure by 365.
   3.	Multiply the result of Step 2 by fourteen.
   4.	The result of Step 3 is the fortnightly rate of allowance that applies to the member.

3. The daily rate of an annual rate of an allowance is the result of step two in the table under subsection A.1.7.2.
4. If a member takes leave at half pay then any annual rate of allowance under this Determination is only payable to the member at half that annual rate for the period of the leave taken at half pay.
5. The annual rate of an allowance in this Determination continues to be payable during periods of paid leave if the member continues to meet relevant eligibility conditions.
6. If a member is eligible for a daily rate of an allowance, the rate payable is the determined daily rate.

1. A member's eligibility for an allowance ceases from the day that they cease to meet any condition that they are required to meet in order to be eligible for payment of an allowance.
   _{Exception: Specific rules for payment of allowances during periods of recreation and long service leave in Defence Determination 2016/19, Conditions of service, as in force from time to time, may set out extended payment periods.
   Note: This will usually have the effect that payment stops the day after the eligibility condition ceases to be met.}
2. If a member ceases to be eligible for an allowance during a pay fortnight, the member is to be paid the daily rate of allowance only for each day of that fortnight on which the member met the conditions of the allowance.
3. For the purposes of payment of allowances, a member is taken to have ceased to be eligible for the allowance on the day after they die, or are missing presumed dead, in accordance with Defence Determination 2016/19, Conditions of service, as in force from time to time.
4. An allowance is not payable to a member under this Determination for any period when the member meets any of the following conditions.
   
   1. The member is on any form of unpaid leave.
   2. The member is undertaking service with, and receiving remuneration from, the United Nations.
   3. The member is undertaking service with, and receiving remuneration from, a multinational force.
   4. The member is on a nonworking period.

1. In this Determination, a reference to the CDF includes a reference to a person the CDF has authorised to exercise administrative powers vested in the CDF under this Determination.

2. In this Determination, a reference to a named position includes a reference to a person who has been authorised to exercise administrative powers vested in that position under this Determination.

A reference to a rank is a reference to an Army rank. It includes a reference to the corresponding rank in the Navy and Air Force. This is unless it is made clear otherwise.