Veterans’ Entitlements (Warlike Service—Operation Augury) Determination 2017
I, Dan Tehan, Minister for Defence Personnel, make the following determination.
Dan Tehan
Minister for Defence Personnel
This instrument is the Veterans’ Entitlements (Warlike Service—Operation Augury) Determination 2017.
(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. | 3 November 2017 |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.
This instrument is made under the definition of warlike service in subsection 5C(1) of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.
For the purposes of the definition of warlike service in subsection 5C(1) of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986, service in the Defence Force in an operation mentioned in an item of the following table is warlike service for the purposes of that 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 | Augury | Supporting the Defence Force’s understanding of Islamist terrorist threats to Australia and the region | Afghanistan and its superjacent airspace | On and after 28 April 2016 |