Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Defence Legislation Amendment Act 1984 No. 164 of 1984 - SECT 13

13. After section 48 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Service of the Regular Army Emergency Reserve other than continuous full time
service

"48A. (1) Where the Chief of the General Staff is of the opinion that a
particular member of the Regular Army Emergency Reserve, or members within a
particular class of members of that force, should undergo a period of
training, he may, by instrument in writing, require the member or members to
render military service (other than continuous full time military service) for
that purpose.

"(2) Subject to sub-section (3), while a member is required to render military
service pursuant to sub-section (1), he is bound to render that service for
such period or periods in a specified training period as the Chief of the
General Staff directs in the instrument requiring him to render military
service.

"(3) The period or periods of service by a member specified in an instrument
or instruments pursuant to sub-section (2) shall not, either continuously or
in the aggregate, exceed 30 days in any training period.

"(4) A member of the Regular Army Emergency Reserve may, at any time,
voluntarily undertake to render military service (other than continuous full
time military service) for a period specified by him, and, if that undertaking
is accepted, he is bound to render military service in accordance with that
undertaking or for such period or periods within that specified period as the
Chief of the General Staff directs.

"(5) In this section, 'training period', in relation to a member of the
Regular Army Emergency Reserve, means a period of 12 consecutive months
commencing on the date of the member's transfer or appointment to, or
enlistment in, that force or on an anniversary of that date, as the case
requires.".