This instrument is the Veterans’ Entitlements (Non-warlike Service—Operation Manitou) 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.

3 Authority

This instrument is made under the definition of non‑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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 Non‑warlike service

For the purposes of the definition of non‑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 non‑warlike service for the purposes of that Act if the service:

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

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

Non‑warlike service
Item	Name of operation	Nature of operation	Area of operation	Period
1	Manitou	Maritime operations, including counter‑piracy operations	The area: (a) comprising all sea and superjacent airspace of the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea north of latitude 11°00′S and west of longitude 68°00′E; and (b) including the ports adjacent to the area mentioned in paragraph (a) of this item, and the area within a 10 kilometre radius of each such port.	1 July 2014 to 13 May 2015
2	Manitou	Maritime operations, including counter‑piracy operations	The area: (a) comprising all sea and superjacent airspace of the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman, the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, the Gulf of Suez, the Gulf of Aqaba and the Indian Ocean north of latitude 15°00′S and west of longitude 68°00′E; and (b) including the ports adjacent to the area mentioned in paragraph (a) of this item, and the area within a 10 kilometre radius of each such port.	14 May 2015 to 13 November 2016
3	Manitou	Maritime operations, including counter‑piracy operations	The area: (a) comprising all sea and superjacent airspace of the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman, the Gulf of Aden, the Gulf of Suez, the Gulf of Aqaba, the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea north of latitude 15°00′S and west of longitude 70°00′E and the Indian Ocean north of latitude 15°00′S and west of longitude 70°00′E; and (b) including the ports adjacent to the area mentioned in paragraph (a) of this item, and the area within a 10 kilometre radius of each such port.	On and after 14 November 2016