REGISTERED CLUBS ACT 1976 - SECT 30A Honorary membership of RSL or services clubs for serving and ex-service Defence Force personnel

REGISTERED CLUBS ACT 1976 - SECT 30A

30A Honorary membership of RSL or services clubs for serving and ex-service Defence Force personnel

(1) The rules of each RSL or services club are taken to include a rule that any person attending the club premises who produces evidence that the person is a serving member of the Australian Defence Force is taken to have been admitted as an honorary member of the club for the day the person attends the club premises.

(2) The rules of each RSL or services club are also taken to include a rule that any person attending the club premises who--

(a) is a former member of the Australian Defence Force, and

(b) produces evidence that the person is a Service Member of the RSL and a member of at least one other RSL or services club,

is taken to have been admitted as an honorary member of the club for the day the person attends the club premises.

(3) Section 30 (2) (c) does not apply in relation to a person who is taken to be admitted as an honorary member of an RSL or services club under this section.

(4) In this section--


"Australian Defence Force" includes the armed forces of the Commonwealth, however described.


"RSL" means the Returned and Services League of Australia.


"RSL or services club" means--

(a) an RSL, Services, Ex-services, Memorial, Legion or other similar club that is a registered club, or

(b) a registered club that has objects similar to, or that amalgamated with, a club of the kind referred to in paragraph (a).