STATUTE LAW REVISION ACT 1981 No. 61, 1981 - SECT 43 Service of the Australian Army Reserve

STATUTE LAW REVISION ACT 1981 No. 61, 1981 - SECT 43

43. Section 50 of the Principal Act is amended -

   (a)  by omitting sub-sections (1) and (2) and substituting the following
        sub-sections:



"(1) Members of the Australian Army Reserve are not bound to render continuous
full time military service otherwise than -

   (a)  as provided in this section; or

   (b)  while they are members of a part of that Reserve called out for such
        service under section 50A or 51.



"(2) The regulations shall fix, or make provision for fixing, training periods
in respect of the Active Australian Army Reserve, or different training
periods in respect of different parts, or different classes of members, of
that Reserve.



"(2A) Members of the Active Australian Army Reserve are bound to render, in
each training period, military service, other than continuous full time
military service, for such periods as are fixed by or in accordance with the
regulations, unless exempted by or in accordance with the regulations from the
obligation to render the whole or a part of that service.



"(2B) The regulations -

   (a)  may make provision for different periods of military service with
        respect to different parts, or different classes of members, of the
        Active Australian Army Reserve; and

   (b)  may make provision for exempting -

        (i)    a particular member of the Active Australian Army Reserve; or

        (ii)   members within a specified class of members of the Active
               Australian Army Reserve, from the obligation to render, during
               a training period, the whole or part of the military service
               that he or they would otherwise be bound to render during that
               period.";

   (b)  by omitting from sub-section (3) "Citizen Military Forces" and
        substituting "Australian Army Reserve"; and

   (c)  by adding at the end thereof the following sub-sections:



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



"(5) Where a period is fixed, for the purposes of this sub-section, by or in
accordance with the regulations in respect of a part, or a class of members,
of the Active Australian Army Reserve, a member of that Reserve included in
that part or class may, in addition to rendering military service that he is
bound to render in pursuance of sub-section (2A) or (4), render voluntarily,
in a training period, military service for a period not exceeding, or for
periods not exceeding in the aggregate, the period so fixed.



"(6) Where a kind or kinds of military service is or are fixed, for the
purposes of this sub-section, by or in accordance with the regulations in
respect of a part, or a class of members, of the Active Australian Army
Reserve, being a part or class in respect of which a period is fixed for the
purposes of sub-section (5), that sub-section does not authorize a member of
that part, or included in that class, to render voluntarily military service
of a kind other than a kind so fixed.".