VETERANS' ENTITLEMENTS ACT 1986 - SECT 7 Eligible war service

VETERANS' ENTITLEMENTS ACT 1986 - SECT 7

  (1)   Subject to subsection   (2), for the purposes of this Act:

  (a)   a person who has rendered operational service shall be taken to have been rendering eligible war service while the person was rendering operational service; and

  (b)   a person who has rendered continuous full - time service (not being operational service) as a member of the Defence Force during World War 1 shall be taken to have been rendering eligible war service while the person was so rendering continuous full - time service; and

  (c)   a person who has rendered continuous full - time service (not being operational service) as a member of the Defence Force during World War 2, being service that commenced before 1   July 1947, shall be taken to have been rendering eligible war service while the person was so rendering continuous full - time service; and

  (d)   a person who rendered continuous full - time service (not being operational service) as a member of the Interim Forces during World War 2 on or after 1   July 1947 shall be taken to have been rendering eligible war service while the person was so rendering continuous full - time service; and

  (e)   a person who was employed on a ship as an Australian mariner is taken to have been rendering eligible war service:

  (i)   if part of that employment was operational service--for the part of that employment that was not operational service; or

  (ii)   in any other case--while the person was so employed.

Note 1:   For World War 1 and World War 2 see subsection   5B(1).

Note 2:   For operational service see sections   6 to 6F.

Note 3:   For Australian mariner , continuous full - time service , member of the Defence Force and member of the Interim Forces see subsection   5C(1).

Note 4:   Subsections   (3) and (4) contain information that is relevant to paragraph   (e).

  (2)   A person who rendered continuous full - time service in the Defence Force during World War 2:

  (a)   if the person was appointed or enlisted for war service in any part of the Defence Force that was raised during World War 2 for war service or solely for service in time of that war or during that time and a definite time thereafter--on or after 1   July 1951;

  (b)   if the person was appointed or enlisted in the Citizen Forces and was called up for continuous full - time service for the duration of, or directly in connection with, World War 2--on or after 1   July 1951; or

  (c)   if the person was not appointed or enlisted as set out in paragraph   (a) or (b)--on or after 3   January 1949;

shall not be taken, by virtue of paragraph   (1)(c), to have been rendering eligible war service while the person was so rendering continuous full - time service.

  (3)   Without limiting paragraph   (1)(e), a person is taken to be employed on a ship as an Australian mariner while the person was at a place (being a place that is in Australia but is not on land in Australia) in the course of proceeding to employment on a ship as an Australian mariner.

  (4)   For the purposes of subsection   (3), Australia does not include an external territory.