30.3.1 Reserve Force - part-time service and with civilian employment

Reservists will – except in exceptional circumstances – be paid compensation in accordance with S19 of the SRCA. As part-time reservists are not covered by Commonwealth superannuation, S20, 21, and 21A will not usually apply to this class of employee.

Exceptionally, some reservists may be in receipt of superannuation in respect of previous service with the full-time regular ADF. Inclusion of this super into the calculations is dependent, on a case by case basis, upon whether the Reserves injury is a new injury or an aggravation of that received in full-time service.

Payment should therefore be calculated in accordance with the scheme outlined at 30.1.1 above, i.e. by means of the formula (NWE – AE) and S19(2) or 19(3) applied depending on whether the client has been in payment for a total of 45 weeks or not.

The essential difference between a full-time ADF member and a part-time reserves member is that the reservist will have two sources of pre-injury income (NWE) to be taken into account. Thus, if at the time of the compensable injury the Reservist was on part-time service, NWE will be based on the member's Reserve Force salary and Reserve allowances and his/her salary and allowances in civilian employment