South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts55AA—Application of Part 4A to Korean war and certain other operations
(1) The provisions of
this Part shall also apply to the following persons:
(a) Any
person who has died from wounds inflicted, accident occurring or disease
contracted while he was on active service in the Korean war as a member of a
naval, military or air force of the Commonwealth or any other part of His
Majesty's Dominions, or of any country associated with His Majesty in the
Korean war:
(b) Any
person who has died from wounds inflicted, accident occurring or disease
contracted while he was engaged in Korea in the work of providing ambulance
services, medical attention, recreational facilities, entertainment,
accommodation, or sustenance, for members of any naval, military, or air force
of the Commonwealth or of any other part of His Majesty's Dominions while such
members were on active service in the Korean war:
(c) A
master or member of the crew of any British ship who dies from wounds
inflicted, accident occurring or disease contracted as the result of action
against that ship during the Korean war by the enemies of the United Nations:
(d) Any
person who has died from wounds inflicted, accident occurring, or disease
contracted while he was a member of a naval, military or air force of the
Commonwealth operating under a British Commander for the suppression of
unlawful violence in Malaya:
(e) Any
person who has died of wounds inflicted, accident occurring, or disease
contracted while—
(i)
on active service as a member of a naval, military or air
force of the Commonwealth of the United Kingdom or of any other part of Her
Majesty's Dominions; or
(ii)
engaged in the work of providing ambulance services,
medical attention, recreational facilities, entertainment, accommodation or
sustenance for any such members on active service as provided by
subparagraph (i) of this paragraph,
in any area outside Australia or in any naval, military or air force operation
that is declared by proclamation (which the Governor is hereby empowered to
make) to be an area or (as the case may be) a naval, military or air force
operation for the purposes of this paragraph, where such wounds were
inflicted, such accident occurred or such disease was contracted within twelve
months before death:
(f) Any
person who has died of wounds inflicted, accident occurring, or disease
contracted while engaged by, or with the authority of, the Commonwealth, in
the work of providing ambulance services, medical attention, nursing services
or advisory services to the civil population in any area outside Australia
that is declared by proclamation under paragraph (e) of this subsection
to be an area for the purposes of that paragraph, where such wounds were
inflicted, such accident occurred, or such disease was contracted within
twelve months before death.
(2) In this
section—
"Korean war" means the war in Korea which commenced on the twenty-fifth day of
June, 1950. For the purposes of this section the said war shall be deemed to
end on the day on which a proclamation is issued by the Governor declaring
that the Korean war has ceased.
(3) This section shall
apply to every such person as mentioned in subsection (1) whether his
death occurred before or after the enactment of this section or before or
after he had ceased to be on active service or to be engaged or occupied as
mentioned in subsection (1) of this section.