Commonwealth Numbered Acts

DEFENCE LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1992 No. 91 of 1992 - SECT 9

9. Section 61A of the Principal Act is amended:

   (a)  by omitting from subsection (1) "or status" and substituting ",
        status, belief, or other reason stated in regulations made for the
        purposes of paragraph (j),";

   (b)  by omitting from paragraph (1)(f) "and";

   (c)  by omitting from paragraph (1)(g) "as prescribed.", and substituting
        "as prescribed;";

   (d)  by adding at the end of subsection (1) the following paragraphs:

"(h) persons whose conscientious beliefs do not allow them to participate in
war or warlike operations;

   (i)  persons whose conscientious beliefs do not allow them to participate
        in a particular war or particular warlike operations; and

   (j)  persons who, for a reason stated in the Regulations, are declared by
        the Regulations to be exempt from service in the Defence Force in time
        of war.";

   (e)  by inserting after subsection (1) the following subsection:

"(1A) Persons whose conscientious beliefs do not allow them to engage in
duties of a combatant nature (either generally or during a particular war or
particular warlike operations) are not exempt from liability to serve in the
Defence Force in time of war but are exempt from such duties while members of
the Defence Force as long as those beliefs continue.".