Contents
- 1 Short title
- 2 Commencement
- 3 Schedules
- Schedule 1 Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide recommendation reforms
- Schedule 2 Streamlining superior tribunal procedures
- Schedule 3 Service tribunal procedures relating to mental health
- Schedule 4 Summary contraventions
- Schedule 2 Summary contravention provisions
- Schedule 5 Other amendments
- Schedule 1 Disciplinary infringement provisions
- Schedule 6 Transitional rules
Contents
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- 1 · Short title
- 2 · Commencement
- (1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other
- (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any pub
- 3 · Schedules
- Schedule 1 · Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide recommendation reforms
- Schedule 2 · Streamlining superior tribunal procedures
- Schedule 3 · Service tribunal procedures relating to mental health
- Schedule 4 · Summary contraventions
- Schedule 2 · Summary contravention provisions
- Schedule 5 · Other amendments
- Part 1 Policing equipment
- Part 2 Updates to prescribed quantities for drug offences
- Part 3 Disclosure of investigative material
- Part 4 Other changes to service offences
- Part 5 Changes to imprisonment terms for restricted courts martial and Defence Force magistrates
- Part 6 Amendments to petition processes for review
- Part 7 Changes to appointment period of legal officers for review processes
- Part 8 Delegation of powers
- Part 9 Change to title of Director of Defence Counsel Services
- Part VIIID Director of Defence Legal Assistance
- Part 10 Functions of Director of Military Prosecutions
- Part 11 Harmonising termination grounds for judicial officers
- Part 12 Application of territory rules of evidence
- Part 13 Investigating officers
- Part 14 Removal orders for intimate images
- Part 15 Extinguishing convictions for historical homosexual service offences
- Part 16 Amendments relating to Part IA
- Schedule 1 · Disciplinary infringement provisions
- Schedule 6 · Transitional rules
- 1 Transitional rules
- (1) The Minister may, by legislative instrument, make rules prescribing matters:
- (a) required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed by the rules; or
- (b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.
- (2) Without limiting subitem (1), the rules may prescribe matters of a transitional nature (including prescribing any saving or application provisions) relating
- (3) However, before making rules for the purposes of subitem (2), the Minister must be satisfied that making the rules is in the interests of justice or otherwi
- (4) To avoid doubt, the rules may not do the following:
- (a) create an offence or civil penalty;
- (b) provide powers of:
- (i) arrest or detention; or
- (ii) entry, search or seizure;
- (c) impose a tax;
- (d) set an amount to be appropriated from the Consolidated Revenue Fund;
- (e) directly amend the text of this Act, the Defence Force Discipline Act 1982 or the Defence Force Discipline Appeals Act 1955.
- [Minister’s second reading speech made in—
- House of Representatives on 1 April 2026
- Senate on 22 June 2026]
- (40/26)
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