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Veterans’ Entitlements (Non-warlike Service) Amendment Determination 2024 (No. 2)

I, Matthew James Keogh, Minister for Veterans’ Affairs and Minister for Defence Personnel, make the following determination under subsection 5C(1) of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.

Dated 21 October 2024

Matthew James Keogh

Minister for Veterans’ Affairs and Minister for Defence Personnel

Contents

1  Name...................................................1

2  Commencement............................................1

3  Authority................................................1

4  Schedules................................................1

Schedule 1—Non-warlike Service amendment 2

Veterans’ Entitlements (Non-warlike Service) Determination 2019 2

 

 

1  Name

This instrument is the Veterans’ Entitlements (Non-warlike Service) Amendment Determination 2024 (No. 2).

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.

 

 

 

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.


Schedule 1—Non-warlike service amendment

Veterans’ Entitlements (Non-warlike Service) Determination 2019

1

Section 1 of Schedule 1 (after item 41)

 

Add:

 

42

Beech

Defence’s support to the Australian Government response to the Hamas-Israel conflict

The land, territorial waters and superjacent airspace of Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Lebanon and the Sinai in Egypt

On and after 13 October 2023

43

Hydranth

Australian Defence Force contribution to support United States and United Kingdom defensive actions targeting the capabilities used in Houthi rebel attacks in the Red Sea

The following areas:

(a) the land, territorial waters and superjacent airspace of Bahrain and Qatar;

(b) the waters and superjacent airspace of the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea (bounded by 10°00′N and 60°00′E).

On and after 15 February 2024