Policy

A member requests approval to undertake a degree in Accounting. She does not need to take study leave during work hours in this semester as all her lectures/tutorials are after 5 pm on Mondays and Wednesdays. She supplies her Unit commander with a list of her contact hours. Approval by her Unit will mean a reimbursement of her fees at the end of the year if she passes her subjects. The Unit commander's approval is therefore based on the course itself. Information on contact hours is a recognition that attendance at those times is part of the approval.

Serving members who, while serving overseas, lodge a claim for rehabilitation and compensation will have their claim administered by the location in which they normally reside.

Note that since the commencement of the MRCA any injury sustained since 1 July 2004 will come under that Act and therefore there will be very few (if any) new claims for current serving members posted overseas under the SRCA.

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For Injuries (including diseases) that have arisen as a result of:

• ADF Service excluding operational/warlike service between 3 January 1949 to 30 June 2004
• ADF Service including operational/warlike service  between 7 April 1994 to 30 June 2004

In this Handbook

The MCRS Liability Handbook contains the following chapters:

The distinction between 'ignorance' and 'mistake' is not very important when considering late claims under the SRCA or the 1971 Act. It is however very significant under the 1930 Act as that Act made no mention of 'ignorance', ignorance was not included in 'mistake', and it does not provide an excuse for a late claim.

Some clients may have entitlement under all three Acts. For example, a serving member who has had operational service under the VEA, peacetime service covered under the SRCA and has continued to serve post 1 July 2004. Whilst a client may have dual entitlement under the SRCA and VEA, the MRCA covers all injuries/diseases as a result of service on or after 1 July 2004.

In many cases, it will be necessary to seek a medical opinion to confirm the diagnosis and the likely (i.e. on-balance-of-probabilities) causation of an injury or a disease. Note, that the client's authority given on the claim form allows Delegates to approach treating doctors and examine existing reports without further ado.

In an injury claim, Delegates should investigate:

The Defcare Standard Letter suite contains separate letters appropriate specifically for enquiries to ADF Health, to the current treating doctor and to a consultant medical specialist commissioned to examine the client for the purposes of a medical opinion on liability. In all of those cases, the Delegate is free to ask additional questions or add remarks, but the appropriate questionnaire attachment should also be retained.

Delegates should be sure to include:

1. a clear statement of the reasons for the request, and

Conflict of interest can be defined as “a conflict between the public duties and private interest of a public official, in which the public official has private-capacity interests which could improperly influence the performance of their official duties and responsibilities”.

Whether counselling is disciplinary action will depend very much on the facts of the case and the formal disciplinary framework applicable to the member.

In most cases, informal counselling, or warning counselling putting a member on notice to improve performance, would not be disciplinary action, but rather would be a step preceding disciplinary action.

• Buffalo:

1.              Air operations at the trials were RAF responsibility.  Main operational air base was RAAF Edinburgh at Maralinga (8.0.6)

2.              Canberra aircraft carried out sampling and tracking duties.  Varsities carried out radiological surveys and medium height cloud tracking.  Buffalo 3 was dropped from a Valiant bomber (8.0.6).