Part 1: Overview

17.1.1    Purpose of this Chapter

 

The purpose of this Chapter is to provide for and inform members about conditions of service for deployments. The purpose of these conditions of service is to compensate members for additional disabilities or hardships that they are likely to experience.

17.1.2    Definitions

 

This table defines terms used in this Chapter.

 

Term

Definition in this Chapter

Assigned for duty

Assigned by an authorised officer of the ADF for warlike or non-warlike service.

Hospital treatment

The period in which the member is accommodated in a defence or civilian hospital for the purposes of medical or nursing care of an illness or injury sustained during eligible duty.

 

 

See also:
Chapter 12 Part 3, Definitions for Chapters 12 to 17
Chapter 1 Part 3, Definitions – general

17.1.3    Member this Chapter applies to

 

This Chapter applies to members on warlike and non-warlike deployments.

17.1.4    Member this Chapter does not apply to

 

This Chapter does not apply to a member serving overseas on peacetime service, a long-term posting or short-term duty.

17.1.5    Contents (This clause is policy guidance)

 

This Part includes the following Division and Annexes.

 

Division 1

Introduction to deployment (clauses 17.1.6 to 17.1.13)

 

Annex 17.1.A

Allotment certificate

 

Annex 17.1.B

Deployments approved by the Minister since 1982

 

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