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Defence Home Ownership Assistance Scheme Amendment (Period of Effective Service) Regulations 2020

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 11 June 2020

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Darren Chester

Minister for Veterans and Defence Personnel

1 Name

This instrument is the Defence Home Ownership Assistance Scheme Amendment (Period of Effective Service) Regulations 2020.

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 later of: (a) the start of the day after this instrument is registered; and (b) the commencement of Schedule 1 to the Defence Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Act 2020. However, the provisions do not commence at all if the event mentioned in paragraph (b) does not occur.	22 June 2020 (paragraph (b) applies)

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Defence Home Ownership Assistance Scheme Act 2008.

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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Defence Home Ownership Assistance Scheme Regulations 2018

1 At the end of subsection 11(4)

Add:

Note: In certain circumstances, the person’s period of effective service under this Division may be:

(a) increased under Division 6 (foreign service members: qualifying service period) or Division 7 (recognising service as effective service in exceptional circumstances) of this Part; or

(b) decreased under Division 8 (ineffective service) of this Part.

2 Subsection 11(5)

Repeal the subsection (including the notes).