Veterans’ Entitlements (Nonwarlike ServiceOperation Okra) Determination 2016

I, Michael McCormack, Assistant Minister for Defence and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Defence, make the following determination.

Dated 4 May 2016

Michael McCormack

Assistant Minister for Defence

Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Defence

 

 

 

 

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

5 Definitions

6 Nonwarlike service

Schedule 1—Repeals

Veterans’ Entitlements (Nonwarlike Service—Operation Okra) Determination 2014

1  Name

  This is the Veterans’ Entitlements (Non-warlike Service—Operation Okra) Determination 2016.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  The whole of this instrument

The day after this instrument is registered.

7 June 2016

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the definition of nonwarlike service in subsection 5C(1) of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

5  Definitions

  In this instrument:

Act means the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.

ADF means the Australian Defence Force.

6  Nonwarlike service

  For the definition of nonwarlike service in subsection 5C(1) of the Act, service in an operation mentioned in an item of the following table is nonwarlike service for the purposes of the Act if the service:

 (a) is in an area of operation mentioned in the item; and

 (b) occurs during a period mentioned in the item.

 

Nonwarlike service

Item

Name of operation

Nature of operation

Area of operation

Period

1

Okra

ADF contribution to the Iraq crisis

The land area, territorial waters and superjacent airspace of Albania, Bahrain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Jordan, Kuwait, Montenegro, Poland, Qatar, Romania and the United Arab Emirates, and the waters and superjacent airspace of the Persian Gulf

9 August 2014—8 September 2015

2

Okra

ADF contribution to the Iraq and Syria crisis

The following areas:

(a) the land area, territorial waters and superjacent airspace of Albania, the Kingdom of Bahrain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Kuwait, Montenegro, Poland, the State of Qatar, Romania and the United Arab Emirates;

(b) the waters and superjacent airspace of the Persian Gulf;

(c) the land territory of Turkey east of longitude 35° East, including superjacent airspace and territorial waters

On and after 9 September 2015

 

Schedule 1Repeals

 

Veterans’ Entitlements (Nonwarlike Service—Operation Okra) Determination 2014

1  The whole of the determination

Repeal the determination.