Division 3: International campaign allowance

 

TAX ALERT: PACMATE Annex 3.B, item 186.

 

17.9.20   Purpose
17.9.21   Definitions
17.9.22   Member this Division applies to
17.9.23   Member this Division does not apply to
17.9.24   Eligibility
17.9.25   Rate of allowance
17.9.26  Other allowances that may be payable
17.9.27   Allowance during leave after deployment

17.9.20   Purpose

1.

International campaign allowance compensates members for hazard, stress and environmental factors while they are deployed with specified international campaigns.

2.

When receiving international campaign allowance, a member is not entitled to deployment allowance.

17.9.21   Definitions

Item

Term

Definition in this Chapter

1.

The deployment

The ADF contribution deployed overseas to any of the following.

a.   The US-led:

     i.     military response to international terrorism.

     ii.    coalition operations in Iraq to support the Australian effort to assist with the rehabilitation of Iraq and to remove the threat posed to world security by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction capability.

b.  Support for the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan.

c.  Provide security to the Australian Embassy in Iraq.

d.  Support for the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq.


 

Item

Term

Definition in this Chapter

2.

Specified area

The specified area for each area of the deployment is as follows.

a.   For the contribution to the US-led military response to international terrorism (item 1.a.i)

The area bounded by 32 degrees east longitude, 5 degrees south latitude, 78 degrees east longitude and 39 degrees north latitude

See: Annex 17.9.B.

b.   For participation in US-led coalition operations in Iraq to support the Australian effort to assist with the rehabilitation of Iraq and to remove the threat posed to world security by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction capability (item 1.a.ii)

i.    Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates

ii.   Saudi Arabia north of 23 degrees north latitude

iii.  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

See: Annex 17.9.C.

c.   For support to the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (item 1.b)

Afghanistan

d.   For the ADF contribution to the provision of security to the Australian Embassy (item 1.c)

Iraq

e.   For the ADF contribution to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (item1.d)

Iraq

17.9.22   Member this Division applies to

 

International campaign allowance applies to a member assigned for duty in a specified area as part of the deployment as defined in clause 17.9.21.

17.9.23   Member this Division does not apply to

 

A member is not entitled to international campaign allowance while serving detention with the ADF in an operational area.

17.9.24   Eligibility

 

A member receives an allowance for each day or part of a day they are in either of these situations.

 

a.

In the specified area.

 

b.

On recreation leave or war service leave accrued during the period of service with the deployment. This is as long as the leave is not longer than the leave credit accrued for the period of service.

17.9.25   Rate of allowance

1.

The amount of international campaign allowance payable for each day or part day of duty in the specified area is set out in this table.

 

Item

Specified area

Amount (AUD)

1.

Iraq and the territorial sea of Iraq

150

2.

Afghanistan

200

3.

Any other part of the specified area

125

 

2.

A member may be assigned to more than one deployment at the same time. If international campaign allowance is payable for both deployments, the member is still only entitled to one rate of the allowance. This rate is for the deployment that the member has most recently been assigned to.

17.9.26  Other allowances that may be payable

 

A member getting international campaign allowance may be entitled to some of these other allowances in the following situations.

 

Item

Allowance

Additional information

1.

Separation allowance

If applicable, separation allowance may be payable.

See: Chapter 6 Part 1 Division 1

2.

Hardship allowance

Hardship allowance is not payable in any period in which the member is paid international campaign allowance and has no partner living at the hardship location.

See: Clause 16.2.4, Amount of hardship allowance

3.

Travel costs

Travel costs are only payable to a member on any day the member has to pay for their own meals while on deployment.

See: Chapter 13 Part 3, Travel costs for short-term duty overseas

17.9.27   Allowance during leave after deployment

1.

A member is entitled to international campaign allowance if they meet both these conditions.

 

a.

They are assigned for duty with a deployment and serve in the specified area.

 

b.

They start a period of leave immediately after ending duty with the deployment.

1A.

This clause applies in relation to the following leave types.

 

a.

Basic recreation leave accrued during the deployment.

 

b.

Additional recreation leave accrued during the deployment.

 

c.

Before 18 February 2011, additional recreation leave (travelling leave) for a member on a relief-out-of-country fare to Australia.

Note: If taken after on or after 18 February 2011, this type of leave does not attract payment of international campaign allowance but it does not break continuity for the payment of the allowance for accrued leave types.

 

d.

War service leave.

2.

A member is entitled to international campaign allowance for the shortest of the following periods.

 

a.

The leave granted.

 

b.

The unused leave credits accrued for service during the deployment.

 

c.

The leave that would be accrued for 12 months' service with the deployment.

3.

The rate of international campaign allowance payable for leave granted is the same as the rate that was payable to the member during the period of deployment for which the leave was accrued.

4.

If the member was entitled to more than one rate of the allowance during the period of service in a specified area with the deployment, then the rate in subclause 3 is the highest of those rates.

5.

In some cases, a member might cease duty with the deployment. However, because of illness, injury or immediate service requirements, they might not be able to immediately do any of these things.

 

a.

Start a period of leave.

 

b.

Complete a period of leave.

 

c.

Use their leave credit.

 

In these cases, the period during which the member was injured, ill or meeting immediate service requirements is ignored. Any separate periods of leave are treated as one period.

Example: A member breaks a leg and cannot go on leave as they are in traction in hospital. Their entitlement is carried forward until they can take the leave.

 

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