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TAX ALERT: PACMATE Annex 3.A, item 161. |
9.4.5 Purpose
9.4.6 Members
entitled
9.4.7 Members
not entitled
9.4.8 ...
9.4.9 Number of
recreation leave travel trips
9.4.10 Travel
in advance of entitlement
9.4.11 Excess
travel costs
9.4.12 Offset
of entitlement for travel to alternative destination
9.4.13 Vehicle
allowance for trip to transport terminal
9.4.14 Transfer
of entitlement
9.4.15 Member
with family overseas
9.4.15A Recreation
leave travel – trainees
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This Division assists members (including trainees) with travel from where they are on duty, to visit their family during recreation leave. See: Chapter 5 Part 1, Overview. |
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The CDF may approve recreational leave travel by the most economical means of public transport if a member meets all these conditions. |
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They are a member without dependants. |
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They are serving in |
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Their nominated family is in |
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They have been granted recreation leave to visit their nominated family. |
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Persons who can make the decision under clause 9.4.6 on behalf of the CDF: Supervisor not below WO2(E)/APS 4, in the member’s direct chain of command or supervision. |
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A member is not entitled to recreation leave travel if they meet either of these conditions. |
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They are eligible for reunion travel. See: Chapter 9 Part 3 Division
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The CDF determines that their nominated family is living in their posting location. |
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Persons who can make the decision under paragraph 9.4.7.b on behalf of the CDF: Director/Commanding Officer not below MAJ(E)/APS 6 in the member's direct chain of command or supervision. |
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A member is entitled to return recreation leave travel to where their nominated family lives. They must travel by the most economical means. Related Information: Clause 9.4.15, Member with family overseas |
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The member is entitled to recreation leave travel once or twice in a leave year only. It depends on where they serve. This table sets out their entitlement. |
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If the member is in the… |
then they may take recreation leave travel… |
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Army or Air Force |
once in a leave year. |
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Navy |
twice in a leave year. |
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Army or Air Force and is posted to a seagoing ship |
twice in a leave year. |
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Related information: Clause 9.4.15A, Recreation leave travel – trainees |
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A pregnant member who has already used her yearly entitlement is entitled to an additional trip. The additional trip will only be provided in connection with maternity leave. |
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If a member cannot be granted their recreation leave travel entitlement for Service reasons, they may apply to the CDF to take it in the following year. This applies once only. They must still meet all the conditions set out in clause 9.4.6 in that following year. |
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A member may be recalled from leave for Service reasons while using a recreation leave travel entitlement. In this case, they are taken not to have used their travel entitlement. |
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The total of recreation leave travel, remote location leave travel and reunion travel must not be more than seven trips a year. |
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Persons who can make the decision under subclause 9.4.9.4 on behalf of the CDF: Director/Commanding Officer not below MAJ(E)/APS 6 in the member's direct chain of command or supervision. |
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The CDF may grant a member recreation leave travel in advance of their next year's entitlement. They will lose that entitlement for that next year. |
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Persons who can make the decision under clause 9.4.10 on behalf of the CDF: Director/Commanding Officer not below MAJ(E)/APS 6 in the member's direct chain of command or supervision. |
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A member who chooses to travel by means that are not the most economical must do both the following. |
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Pay any travel costs above the normal departmental liability. See: Chapter 9 Part 1 clause 9.1.4, Normal departmental liability – what the Commonwealth will pay. |
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Pay those excess costs before the booking is finalised. They pay them to the Collector of Public Moneys. Note: The member's payment is to be credited to the appropriate cost code for their travel. |
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A member can put the value of their entitlement towards the cost of travel to meet their nominated family in an alternative destination in Australia. One of these conditions must be met. |
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The CDF is satisfied that their nominated family is located at the alternative destination. |
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The member’s entitlement under clause 9.4.3 is to the capital city nearest their place of duty, and they wish to go somewhere else. |
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The Commonwealth will pay up to the lesser of these two amounts. |
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The cost of the actual travel. |
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The cost of Defence travel to where the nominated family normally live, by the most economical means. |
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Example: A member without dependants is on
posting in Sydney. The nominated family (their parents) normally live in
Brisbane but are currently on a c |
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Persons who can make the decision under p Director/Commanding Officer not below MAJ(E)/APS 6 in the member's direct chain of command or supervision. |
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A member is entitled to vehicle allowance for the trip their vehicle makes from their residence to a transport terminal and back again. They do not have to be present for the whole of that journey. They could have been dropped off at the terminal to continue their journey on recreation leave travel at Commonwealth expense. Example: For a member in Nowra, Bomaderry railway station for transport to Sydney Airport. |
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Payment of vehicle allowance under subclause 1 must not be more than the normal departmental liability. Example: Cab charge. See: Part 1 clause 9.1.4, Normal departmental liability. |
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A member may choose to transfer their entitlement to the nominated family. This is to allow one or more of the nominated family to travel from their home to where the member is serving, and back again. |
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If the member chooses to transfer travel, these conditions apply. |
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The Commonwealth will pay only up to what the member would have been entitled to under clause 9.4.9, Entitlement. |
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The member is taken to have used a recreation leave travel entitlement. |
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The CDF may grant recreation leave travel under clause 9.4.9 to a member whose nominated family is living overseas. |
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The member is entitled to return travel to an international terminal in Australia. The terminal must be the one nearest their posting location from which a flight goes to where the nominated family lives. The travel must be by the most economical means. Note: The nearest international terminal may include Darwin. |
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Persons who can make the decision under subclause 9.4.15.1 on behalf of the CDF: Director/Commanding Officer not below MAJ(E)/APS 6 in the member's direct chain of command or supervision. |
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The CDF may approve recreation leave travel under this Division for a trainee or member undergoing training, on all the following conditions, in addition to relevant conditions in this Division. |
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The travel is during a course break of at least seven continuous days, or on graduation. |
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The travel may be approved on a maximum of three occasions a year. Note: Approval might not be appropriate when the member will need travel on graduation and the member has already had travel approved twice that year. |
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Travel may include overseas travel to visit the member's nominated family. |
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Approval will be subject to Service requirements and course structures. |
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Travel may be refused for disciplinary reasons, or because of unsatisfactory academic progress, or for any other reason related to the member's training. |
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Travelling leave is not to be granted. See: Chapter 5 Part 7 Division 5, Travelling leave. |
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Persons who can make the decision under clause 9.4.15A on behalf of the CDF: For Army members: Supervisor not below MAJ(E)/APS 6 in the member’s direct
chain of command or supervision. For Air Force and
Navy members: Supervisor not below WO2(E)/APS 4, in the member’s direct chain of command or supervision. |