Veterans’ Entitlements (Warlike Service—Operation 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

1 Name

This is the Veterans’ Entitlements (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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 warlike 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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 Warlike service

For the definition of warlike service in subsection 5C(1) of the Act, service in an operation mentioned in an item of the following table is warlike 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.

Warlike 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 Iraq	9 August 2014—8 September 2015
2	Okra	ADF contribution to the Iraq and Syria crisis	The land area, territorial waters and superjacent airspace of Iraq and Syria	On and after 9 September 2015