Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

WAR GRATUITY ACT 1945 - SECT 9

(1)

Subject to the provisions of sections ten and eleven of this Act, general qualifying service shall comprise each day of service as a member, and each day of the period following the death of a member, which is specified in any one or more of the following paragraphs:

(a)

Service classified as overseas qualifying service within the provisions of section seven of this Act;

(b)

Service on and after the seventh day of December, One thousand nine hundred and forty-one, if the member had served on continuous full-time war service for a period of six months immediately preceding that date;

(c)

Service on and after the day following the date subsequent to the seventh day of December, One thousand nine hundred and forty-one, on which the member completed a period of six months continuous full-time war service;

(d)

In the event of a period of service described in paragraph (b) or (c) of this subsection having been terminated by death due to war service, the period from the date of death to the date of notification of death to the Repatriation Commission or to the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and forty-seven, whichever is the earlier date, except in the case of the death of a member during the period deemed to be service under subsection (1) of section eleven of this Act; and

(e)

Service on or after the seventh day of December, One thousand nine hundred and forty-one, by a member who died before the completion of the period of six months service referred to in paragraph (c) of this subsection, where the member's death was due to war service.

(2)

Any day of service specified in more than one of the paragraphs of the last preceding subsection shall count as one day of service only.

(3)

The Governor-General may, by Proclamation, declare a date as the date upon which the general qualifying service of any class of member of the Permanent Forces specified in the Proclamation shall cease, and service by members included in that class after the date proclaimed shall not be deemed to be general qualifying service.