(1) These regulations may be cited as the Armed Forces Discipline (Legal Services Fees and Allowances) Amendment Regulations 1997, and are part of the Armed Forces Discipline (Legal Services Fees and Allowances) Regulations 1991¹ (“the principal regulations”).

(2) These regulations come into force on 1 October 1997.

(1) This subclause amended the definition of the term Judge Advocate General in reg 2 of the principal regulations.

(2) Regulation 2 of the principal regulations is amended by revoking the definition of the term practitioner.

(3) This subclause inserted, after the definition of the term certifying officer, the definitions Counsel and Judge Advocate in reg 2 of the principal regulations.

This regulation substituted reg 3(2) of the principal regulations.

This regulation revoked regulations 6 to 10, and substituted regs 6, 6A, 7, 7A, 8, 9 and 10, of the principal regulations.

This regulation substituted reg 12 of the principal regulations.

This regulation substituted reg 15(c) of the principal regulations.

Despite regulation 5(1) of the principal regulations, the Chief of Defence Force must, before 1 October 1997, prepare and certify, for the purposes of work done in the period beginning on 1 October 1997 and ending with the close of 30 June 1998, a scale of all fees payable under these regulations, and must forward a copy to each certifying officer.