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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 1 Hansard (15 February) . . Page.. 62 ..


3.7 Calculation of board and lodging allowance

3.7(1) Subject to subclauses (4) and (5), the allowance payable under subclause 3.4(2) or 3.5(2) to an officer with dependants is an amount equal to the amount by which the contribution, calculated in accordance with clause 3.8, which the officer is required to make towards the cost of accommodation is less than the sum of whichever of the following amounts are applicable -

(a) the amount of the expenses incurred by the officer in connection with the provision of meals and lodging for the officer and the dependants of the officer at the establishment where board and lodging accommodation is obtained;

(b) the amount of the expenses incurred by the officer in connection with provision of accommodation other than board and lodging accommodation;

(c) where the accommodation does not include kitchen facilities and the officer or the dependants of the officer purchase meals of a kind specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 elsewhere than at the establishment where board and lodging accommodation is obtained -

(i) in respect of each meal so purchased for the officer or a dependant of the officer who is at least 10 years of age - an amount equal to whichever of the amounts specified in column 2 or 3 of the Schedule is applicable; and

(ii) in respect of each meal purchased for a dependant of the officer who is less than 10 years of age - an amount equal to half of whichever of the amounts specified in column 2 or 3 of the Schedule is applicable; and

(d) where the accommodation includes kitchen facilities - an amount in respect of the provision of meals and foodstuffs payable -

(i) in respect of the officer and in respect of each dependant of the officer who is at least 10 years of age - at the rate per week specified in column 2 of Schedule 3 opposite to item 1 less any amount payable to the officer under paragraph (a) in respect of meals purchased for the officer or the dependant of the officer, as the case requires; and

(ii) in respect of each dependant of the officer who is less than 10 years of age - at the rate per week specified in column 2 of the Schedule opposite to item 3 less any amount payable to the officer under paragraph (a) in respect of meals purchased for the dependant.

(2) Subject to subclauses (4) and (5), the allowance payable under subclause 3.4(2) or 3.5(2) to an officer without dependants other than such an officer to whom subclause (3) applies is an amount equal to the amount by which the contribution, calculated in accordance with clause 3.8, which the officer is required to make towards the cost of accommodation is less than the sum of whichever of the following amounts are applicable -

(a) the amount of the expenses incurred by the officer in connection with the provision of meals and lodging for the officer at the establishment where the board and lodging accommodation is obtained;


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