Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

DEFENCE (PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATES) ACT 1969 - SECT 14

             (1)  Where:

                     (a)  a person has been discharged from the Defence Force under section 8;

                     (b)  the appropriate service chief is satisfied that:

                              (i)  he was not nominated in the relevant election; or

                             (ii)  having been nominated in the relevant election, he failed to be elected in that election; and

                     (c)  he has not made application having effect for the purposes of section 11 for re‑instatement in the force of which he was a member immediately before he was discharged;

the appropriate service chief may, by notice in writing served on him before the expiration of a period of one month after the date that is the declared date in relation to the relevant election, require him to make to the appropriate service chief, not later than the expiration of a period of two months after the declared date, application in writing for his re‑instatement in the force of which he was a member immediately before his discharge.

             (2)  If, at the expiration of the period of two months after the declared date, the person has not made application in writing to the appropriate service chief for re‑instatement in the force of which he was a member immediately before he was discharged, he shall be deemed to have made such an application on the last day of that period and on that day to have been re‑enlisted, in accordance with section 11, in the force of which he was a member immediately before he was discharged, and that section applies in relation to him accordingly.

             (3)  Any requirement of any other law of Australia that a person enlisting in an arm of the Defence Force shall take an oath or make an affirmation does not apply in relation to the re‑enlistment of a person by virtue of the last preceding subsection.