DEFENCE FORCES SPECIAL RETIREMENT BENEFITS ACT 1960 - SECT 4 Persons to whom this Act applies

Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

Persons to whom this Act applies

"the prescribed period" means:

(a): in relation to a person who is a member of the Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps on the proclaimed date—the period of nine months commencing on that date; and
(b): in any other case—the period of three months commencing on that date.

"the proclaimed date" means the date of commencement of this Act.

(i): is a male member of the Regular Army;
(ii): is a contributor to the Fund; and
(iii): is serving under an engagement, being an engagement for a term that does not expire during the prescribed period;

(b): who is not, at any time during the prescribed period, an officer;
(c): the fifty-fifth anniversary of whose birthday has not occurred before the proclaimed date and does not occur during the prescribed period;
(d): who is declared by the Minister of State for the Army on the proclaimed date, by instrument in writing, to be a member who is to be discharged from the Regular Army during the prescribed period by reason of a reduction in the establishment of his regiment or corps ;
(e): who is discharged from the Regular Army during the prescribed period for that reason; and
(f): who does not become a member on the day following the date of his discharge.