Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

VETERANS' ENTITLEMENTS ACT 1986 - SECT 7

             (1)  Subject to subsection (2), for the purposes of this Act:

                     (a)  a person who has rendered operational service shall be taken to have been rendering eligible war service while the person was rendering operational service; and

                     (b)  a person who has rendered continuous full-time service (not being operational service) as a member of the Defence Force during World War 1 shall be taken to have been rendering eligible war service while the person was so rendering continuous full-time service; and

                     (c)  a person who has rendered continuous full-time service (not being operational service) as a member of the Defence Force during World War 2, being service that commenced before 1 July 1947, shall be taken to have been rendering eligible war service while the person was so rendering continuous full-time service; and

                     (d)  a person who rendered continuous full-time service (not being operational service) as a member of the Interim Forces during World War 2 on or after 1 July 1947 shall be taken to have been rendering eligible war service while the person was so rendering continuous full-time service; and

                     (e)  a person who was employed on a ship as an Australian mariner is taken to have been rendering eligible war service:

                              (i)  if part of that employment was operational service--for the part of that employment that was not operational service; or

                             (ii)  in any other case--while the person was so employed.

Note 1:       For World War 1 and World War 2 see subsection 5B(1).

Note 2:       For operational service see sections 6 to 6F.

Note 3:       For Australian mariner , continuous full-time service , member of the Defence Force and member of the Interim Forces see subsection 5C(1).

Note 4:       Subsections (3) and (4) contain information that is relevant to paragraph (e).

             (2)  A person who rendered continuous full-time service in the Defence Force during World War 2:

                     (a)  if the person was appointed or enlisted for war service in any part of the Defence Force that was raised during World War 2 for war service or solely for service in time of that war or during that time and a definite time thereafter--on or after 1 July 1951;

                     (b)  if the person was appointed or enlisted in the Citizen Forces and was called up for continuous full-time service for the duration of, or directly in connection with, World War 2--on or after 1 July 1951; or

                     (c)  if the person was not appointed or enlisted as set out in paragraph (a) or (b)--on or after 3 January 1949;

shall not be taken, by virtue of paragraph (1)(c), to have been rendering eligible war service while the person was so rendering continuous full-time service.

             (3)  Without limiting paragraph (1)(e), a person is taken to be employed on a ship as an Australian mariner while the person was at a place (being a place that is in Australia but is not on land in Australia) in the course of proceeding to employment on a ship as an Australian mariner.

             (4)  For the purposes of subsection (3), Australia does not include an external territory.