Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Defence Legislation Amendment Act 1984 No. 164 of 1984 - SECT 5

5. After section 4H of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Service of the Air Force Emergency Force other than continuous full time
service

"4HA. (1) Where the Chief of the Air Staff is of the opinion that a particular
member of the Air Force Emergency Force, 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 air-force
service (other than continuous full time air-force service) for that purpose.

"(2) Subject to sub-section (3), while a member is required to render
air-force 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 Air Staff directs in the instrument requiring him to render air-force
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 Air Force Emergency Force may, at any time, voluntarily
undertake to render air-force service (other than continuous full time
air-force service) for a period specified by him, and, if that undertaking is
accepted, he is bound to render air-force service in accordance with that
undertaking or for such period or periods within that specified period as the
Chief of the Air Staff directs.

"(5) In this section, 'training period', in relation to a member of the Air
Force Emergency Force, 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.".