Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Where an officer has been transferred to a Reserve under section 7, an enlisted member has been discharged from the Defence Force under section 8 or the continuous full‑time service of a member has been terminated under section 9, the appropriate service chief shall, if he so requests, arrange for him to travel, at the expense of the Defence Force, from the place where he is serving when he is so transferred or discharged, or his continuous full‑time service is terminated, to the place at which he resided immediately before he became a member or to such other place as is agreed upon between him and the appropriate service chief.
(2) Where:
(a) at the time a person makes application having effect for the purposes of section 7, 8 or 9, he is serving at a place outside Australia;
(b) members of his family who are dependent upon him are at that time living at or near the place where he is so serving or at or near a place outside Australia at which he previously served; and
(c) he has been transferred to a Reserve under section 7, discharged under section 8 or his continuous full‑time service has been terminated under section 9, or the appropriate service chief proposes so transferring or discharging him or terminating his continuous full‑time service under whichever of those sections is applicable;
the appropriate service chief shall, if the person so requests:
(d) arrange for those members of his family to travel, at the expense of the Defence Force, from the place where they are living referred to in paragraph (b) to the place at which the person resided immediately before he became a member or to such other place in Australia as is agreed upon between the person and the appropriate service chief; and
(e) arrange for such household furniture and such effects of the person and of those members of his family at the place at which they are so living as the appropriate service chief approves to be brought from that place to the place at which the person resided immediately before he became a member or to such other place as is agreed upon between the person and the appropriate service chief.
(3) For the purposes of this section, the members of a family, in relation to any person, are taken to include the following (without limitation):
(a) a de facto partner of the person (within the meaning of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 );
(b) someone who is the child of the person, or of whom the person is the child, because of the definition of child in subsection (4);
(c) anyone else who would be a member of the person's family if someone mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) is taken to be a member of the person's family.
(4) In this section:
"child" : without limiting who is a child of a person for the purposes of subsection (3), someone is the child of a person if he or she is a child of the person within the meaning of the Family Law Act 1975 .
"dependent" means wholly or substantially dependent.