Defence Force Discipline (Chief of Navy) Determination 2022 I, Vice Admiral Mark David Hammond, AM, Chief of Navy, make the following determination. Dated 12 December 2022 Mark David Hammond AM Chief of Navy Contents 1 Name 2 Commencement 3 Authority 4 Objects of this instrument 5 Simplified outline of this instrument 6 Definitions 7 Chief of Navy Determination 1 Name This instrument is the Defence Force Discipline (Chief of Navy) Determination 2022. 2 Commencement (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms. Commencement information Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Provisions Commencement Date/Details 1. The whole of this instrument At the same time as Schedule 1 to the Defence Legislation Amendment (Discipline Reform) Act 2021 commences. Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument. (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument. 3 Authority This determination is made under subsection 9CA(2) of the Defence Force Discipline Act 1982. 4 Objects of this instrument The object of this instrument is to ensure that breaches of discipline by the most senior enlisted members of the Royal Australian Navy are not dealt with under the infringement scheme established by Part IA of the Act, which is intended to deal only with minor service discipline matters 5 Simplified outline of this instrument Part IA of the Act establishes an infringement scheme to deal with minor service discipline matters (the infringement scheme). A prescribed defence member may elect to be dealt with under the infringement scheme for breaches of discipline that are disciplinary infringements. Subsection 9CA(1) of the Act defines a prescribed defence member. Under subsection 9CA(2) of Act, service chiefs may determine that a specified defence member, or each member of a specified class of defence members, holding the rank of warrant officer, chief petty officer or flight sergeant, is not a prescribed defence member. This instrument determines that members of the Royal Australian Navy of the rank of Warrant Officer are not prescribed defence members for the purposes of the infringement scheme. 6 Definitions Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act, including the following: (a) disciplinary infringement (b) infringement scheme (c) prescribed defence member. In this instrument: Act means the Defence Force Discipline Act 1982. 7 Chief of Navy Determination Pursuant to subsection 9CA(2) of the Act each member of the class of defence members in the Royal Australian Navy holding the rank of Warrant Officer is not a prescribed defence member for the purposes of Part IA of the Act.