Military Rehabilitation and Compensation (Warlike Service—2017 Measures No. 1) Determination 2017
I, Dan Tehan, Minister for Defence Personnel, make the following determination.
Dan Tehan
Minister for Defence Personnel
Contents
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Schedules
5 Definitions
6 Warlike service
Schedule 1—Warlike service
1 Warlike service
Schedule 2—Repeals
Military Rehabilitation and Compensation (Warlike Service) Determination 2016 (No. 1)
This instrument is the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation (Warlike Service—2017 Measures No. 1) 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. | 4 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 paragraph 6(1)(a) of the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004.
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
In this instrument:
Act means the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004.
ADF means the Australian Defence Force (within the meaning of the Defence Act 1903).
NATO means the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Schedule 1 specifies service with the Defence Force that is warlike service for the purposes of the Act.
Note: See section 6.
For the purposes of paragraph 6(1)(a) of the Act, service with the Defence Force 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 | Enduring Freedom—Afghanistan | US Global War on Terror | Afghanistan and its superjacent airspace | On and after 7 October 2001 |
2 | Slipper | ADF contribution to the International Coalition against Terrorism | The area bounded by the following geographical coordinates: (a) 48°00′N 81°00′E; (b) 48°00′N 35°00′E; (c) 12°00′N 35°00′E; (d) 12°00′N 81°00′E | 11 October 2001—30 July 2009 |
3 | Ariki | New Zealand contribution to Operation Enduring Freedom—Afghanistan and the International Security Assistance Force mission in Afghanistan | Afghanistan and its superjacent airspace | On and after 1 December 2001 |
4 | Palate | ADF support to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan | Afghanistan | 18 April 2003—5 July 2004 |
5 | Catalyst | ADF contribution in support of the US‑led coalition operations in Iraq in order to support the Australian whole‑of‑government effort to assist with the rehabilitation of Iraq and to remove the threat posed to global security by Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction capability | The total land areas, territorial waters, internal waterways and superjacent airspace boundaries of Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia (north of latitude 23°00′N), the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz | 16 July 2003—31 July 2009 |
6 | Athena | Canadian contribution to the International Security Assistance Force mission in Afghanistan | Afghanistan and its superjacent airspace | On and after 17 July 2003 |
7 | International Security Assistance Force | NATO‑led security mission in Afghanistan | Afghanistan and its superjacent airspace | On and after 11 August 2003 |
8 | Herrick | United Kingdom contribution to the International Security Assistance Force mission in Afghanistan | Afghanistan and its superjacent airspace | On and after 1 September 2004 |
9 | Palate II | ADF support to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan | Afghanistan | On and after 27 June 2005 |
10 | Paladin | ADF contribution to the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization | Southern Lebanon bounded by 33°12′N 35°12′E, 33°10′N 35°20′E, 33°19′N 35°25′E, on the Litani River, then along the Litani River to 33°25′N 35°37′E, 33°22′N 35°49′E, on the Syria‑Lebanon border, then south to the junction of the Syria‑Lebanon‑Israel border, then east along the Lebanon‑Israel border to the coast, then north along the coast to 33°12′N 35°12′E | 12 July 2006—14 August 2006 |
11 | Riverbank | ADF support to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq | Iraq | On and after 21 July 2008 |
12 | Kruger | ADF contribution to the provision of security to the Australian Embassy in Iraq | Iraq | On and after 1 January 2009 |
13 | Slipper | ADF contribution to the International Coalition against Terrorism | The area bounded by the following geographical coordinates: (a) 39°00′N 78°00′E; (b) 39°00′N 32°00′E; (c) 05°00′S 32°00′E; (d) 05°00′S 78°00′E | 31 July 2009—19 February 2012 |
14 |
| ADF contribution to the NATO no‑fly zone and maritime enforcement operation against Libya | Libya and its territorial waters and superjacent airspace | 31 March 2011—31 October 2011 |
15 | Slipper | ADF contribution to the International Coalition against Terrorism | The area bounded by the following geographical coordinates: (a) 39°00′N 32°00′E; (b) 39°00′N 78°00′E; (c) 23°00′N 78°00′E; (d) 23°00′N 68°00′E; (e) 11°00′S 68°00′E; (f) 11°00′S 38°00′E; (g) 17°00′N 38°00′E; (h) 17°00′N 32°00′E | 20 February 2012—30 June 2014 |
16 | Slipper | ADF contribution to the International Coalition against Terrorism | Afghanistan and its superjacent airspace | On and after 1 July 2014 |
17 | Okra | ADF contribution to the Iraq crisis | The land area, territorial waters and superjacent airspace of Iraq | 9 August 2014—8 September 2015 |
18 | Highroad | ADF contribution to the NATO‑led Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan | Afghanistan and its superjacent airspace | On and after 1 January 2015 |
19 | 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 |
20 | Augury | Supporting the ADF’s understanding of Islamist terrorist threats to Australia and the region | Afghanistan and its superjacent airspace | On and after 28 April 2016 |
Military Rehabilitation and Compensation (Warlike Service) Determination 2016 (No. 1)
1 The whole of the Determination
Repeal the Determination.