Humanitarian Overseas Service Medal (Mozambique) Declaration 2001

I, WILLIAM PATRICK DEANE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting on the recommendation of the Parliamentary Secretary to Cabinet, make this Declaration under subregulation 3 (1) of the Humanitarian Overseas Service Medal Regulations.

Dated 8 June 2001

WILLIAM DEANE

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

BILL HEFFERNAN

Parliamentary Secretary to Cabinet

1 Name of Declaration

  This Declaration is the Humanitarian Overseas Service Medal (Mozambique) Declaration 2001.

2 Definitions

 (1) In this Declaration:

declared operation means the operation declared under section 3.

Regulations means the Humanitarian Overseas Service Medal Regulations set out in Schedule 1 to the Letters Patent dated 16 April 1999, given under the Great Seal of Australia, as amended from time to time.

specified hazardous area means the hazardous area specified in section 5.

specified organisation means an organisation specified in Schedule 1.

 (2) Unless the contrary intention appears, a word that is used in this Declaration and in the Regulations has the same meaning in this Declaration as it has in the Regulations.

3 Declaration

  The humanitarian operation resulting from the civil war in Mozambique during the period 1 January 1985 to 31 January 1995, which satisfies the conditions mentioned in paragraphs 3 (1) (a) and (b) of the Regulations, is a declared operation.

4 Name of operation

  For the purposes of the Regulations, the name by which the declared operation is known is ‘Mozambique’.

5 Geographical extent of hazardous area

  The geographical extent of the hazardous area of the declared operation is:

 (a) Mozambique; and

 (b) areas in adjoining countries (Malawi, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe) in which a specified organisation carried out humanitarian service as part of the declared operation.

6 Period of declared operation

  The period of the declared operation is 1 January 1985 to 31 January 1995.

7 Specification of organisations for eligible service

  Humanitarian service with an organisation specified in Schedule 1 is eligible service.

8 Period of participation by specified organisations

 (1) The period within which a specified organisation participated in the declared operation is the period mentioned in Schedule 1 in relation to the organisation.

 (2) A period mentioned in Schedule 1 includes the days mentioned as the start and the end of the period.

9 Qualifying period of service

 (1) The qualifying period of humanitarian service required to be given by a member of a specified organisation to be eligible for an award of the Medal is 30 days.

 (2) The qualifying period of humanitarian service may be aggregated from several periods of service with 1 or more of the specified organisations.

 (3) If a person gave humanitarian service as a member of 2 or more specified organisations and a day of the service could be counted as a day of humanitarian service for more than 1 organisation, the day must be counted as 1 day of humanitarian service.

10 When inspection visits count as humanitarian service

 (1) A person’s inspection visit counts as humanitarian service if the person made the visit:

 (a) as a member of a specified organisation; and

 (b) within the period specified in Schedule 1 in relation to the organisation.

 (2) If the person made the visit as a member of 2 or more specified organisations and a day of the visit could be counted as a day of humanitarian service for more than 1 organisation, the day must be counted as 1 day of humanitarian service.

11 Ineligibility for the award of the Medal

 (1) Eligible service does not include service of the following kinds:

 (a) service that is eligible service for an alternative award;

 (b) service as a locally-engaged member of the staff of a specified organisation (whether the person is in the specified hazardous area as a refugee or a resident);

 (c) service as a commercial contractor, or an employee of a commercial contractor, to a specified organisation.

 (2) In paragraph (1) (a):

alternative award means:

 (a) an award of a clasp of the Medal denoting the operation declared as a declared operation by the Humanitarian Overseas Service Medal (Great Lakes) Declaration 1999; or

 (b) an award of the Mozambique clasp of the Australian Service Medal because of a determination under subregulation 4 (2) of the Australian Service Medal Regulations; or

 (c) an award of the Mozambique clasp of the Police Overseas Service Medal because of a determination under subregulation 4 (2) of the Police Overseas Service Medal Regulations.

Schedule 1 Specified organisations

(sections 2, 7, 8 and 10)