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TAX ALERT: PACMATE Annex 3.B, item 190. |
17.10.4 Purpose
17.10.5 Employee
this Part applies to
17.10.6 Entitlement
17.10.7 Rate
of allowance
17.10.8 Impact
on other allowances
17.10.9 Additional
annual leave
17.10.10 Operational
areas and hardship rates
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The purpose of operational support allowance is to compensate APS employees for performing duty in an operational area. |
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Operational support allowance applies to an APS employee who meets either of the following conditions. |
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The employee has received written notice to perform duties for a period in an operational area in support of an ADF operation. See: Clause 17.10.10, Operational areas and hardship rates |
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The employee meets both the following conditions. |
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The employee has been directed to perform duty with a foreign government in support of Commonwealth goals. Example: An employee is transferring skills to a foreign government. The skills are needed to help rebuild the foreign country. |
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The employee is performing duties in an operational area. |
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Employees receive operational support allowance for each day or part of a day they are in either of these situations. |
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In the operational area. |
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b. |
On leave during their period of duty. This is only received if the leave taken is not greater than the leave credit accrued for the period of duty with the deployment. |
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The amount of the operation support allowance is determined by adding the applicable arduous duties rate and the hardship rate. |
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The arduous duties rate is whichever of these applies. |
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AUD 100.65 for a weekday. |
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AUD 204.97 for a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday. |
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A public holiday for
an employee means a day, or part of a day observed as a public holiday at the
employee's normal place of duty in |
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The employee's arduous duties rate for a day is reduced by the amount they are entitled to for that day for any of the following. |
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Overtime. |
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Shift penalty payments. |
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c. |
Restriction allowance. |
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d. |
Special entitlements for duty at sea. |
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The hardship rate for each operational area are set out in the table in clause 17.10.10. |
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While an employee is entitled to operational support allowance, they are not entitled to any of these allowances. |
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Item |
Allowance |
Reference |
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Camping allowance |
Chapter 13 Part 2 Division 5 |
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Travel costs Exception: The employee may be entitled to travel costs under Chapter 13 Part 3 in one situation. This is when they are required to pay for their own meals while performing duty overseas in support of an ADF operation. |
Chapter 13 Part 3 |
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Equipment allowance |
Chapter 13 Part 3 Division 2 |
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Overseas living allowance |
Chapter 15 Part 2 |
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Hardship allowance |
Chapter 16 Part 2 |
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Employees receive additional annual leave for duty in an operational area. |
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The employee is entitled to an additional 10 days annual leave a year, on a pro rata basis, for duty in the operational area. |
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The employee also gets 1 day additional annual leave for every 10 days they are entitled to operational support allowance, to a maximum of 10 days additional annual leave per year. |
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This table shows how to calculate the amount of additional annual leave that an employee is entitled to under this Division. |
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Work out the amount of the member's entitlement in subclause 17.10.9.2. |
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Work out the amount of the member's entitlement in subclause 17.10.9.3. |
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Add the outcome of Step 1 and the outcome of Step 2. |
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The outcome of Step 3 equals the amount of additional annual leave. |
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This leave is treated on the same basis as if the employee were serving at a hardship location overseas. |
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Applicable operational areas and the hardship rate for each one are set out in this table. |
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Operation |
Operational area |
Hardship rate (AUD a day) |
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UN Mission of Support in |
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65.05 |
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The ADF contribution deployed overseas to the United States-led military response to international terrorism |
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65.05 |
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Any part of the area bounded by: § 32 degrees east longitude § 5 degrees south latitude § 78 degrees east longitude § 39 degrees north latitude |
34.37 |
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The ADF participation in the United States-led
military coalition operations in |
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65.05 |
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The
following areas other than a. b. c. the Arabian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz north of a line drawn between 25 degrees 2 minutes north, 56 degrees 36 minutes east and 25 degrees 32 minutes north, 57 degrees 35 minutes east |
34.37 |
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The ADF contribution in support of the Australian Government's Strengthened Assistance Framework Program to assist the Solomon Islands Government |
The |
51.55 |
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The Australian Defence Force stabilisation operation in support of the Government of East Timor |
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65.05 |
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Multinational Force and Observers in the Sinai |
Egypt between the east bank of the Suez Canal and the international boundary between Egypt and Israel established by the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel signed in Washington on 26 March 1979, and an adjoining area extending 5 km into Israel. |
51.55 |
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United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation and United Nations Special Coordinator in the Occupied Territories |
Egypt Jordan Israel Lebanon Syria |
51.55 |
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United Nations and African Union Missions in Sudan |
Sudan (other than Darfur province) |
51.55 |
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Sudan (Darfur province) |
65.05 |