Contents
1 Name of Declaration [see Note 1] 3
2 Definitions 3
3 Declaration 3
4 Name of operation 3
5 Geographical extent of hazardous area 3
6 Period of declared operation 3
7 Specification of organisations for eligible service 3
8 Period of participation by specified organisations 4
9 Qualifying period of service 4
10 When inspection visits count as humanitarian service 4
11 Ineligibility for the award of the Medal 4
Notes 7
1 Name of Declaration [see Note 1]
This Declaration is the Humanitarian Overseas Service Medal (Mozambique) Declaration 2001.
2 Definitions
(1) In this Declaration:
declared operation means the operation declared under section 3.
Regulations means the Humanitarian Overseas Service Medal Regulations set out in Schedule 1 to the Letters Patent dated 16 April 1999, given under the Great Seal of Australia, as amended from time to time.
specified hazardous area means the hazardous area specified in section 5.
specified organisation means an organisation specified in Schedule 1.
(2) Unless the contrary intention appears, a word that is used in this Declaration and in the Regulations has the same meaning in this Declaration as it has in the Regulations.
3 Declaration
The humanitarian operation resulting from the civil war in Mozambique during the period 1 January 1985 to 31 January 1995, which satisfies the conditions mentioned in paragraphs 3 (1) (a) and (b) of the Regulations, is a declared operation.
4 Name of operation
For the purposes of the Regulations, the name by which the declared operation is known is ‘Mozambique’.
5 Geographical extent of hazardous area
The geographical extent of the hazardous area of the declared operation is:
(a) Mozambique; and
(b) areas in adjoining countries (Malawi, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe) in which a specified organisation carried out humanitarian service as part of the declared operation.
6 Period of declared operation
The period of the declared operation is 1 January 1985 to 31 January 1995.
7 Specification of organisations for eligible service
Humanitarian service with an organisation specified in Schedule 1 is eligible service.
8 Period of participation by specified organisations
(1) The period within which a specified organisation participated in the declared operation is the period mentioned in Schedule 1 in relation to the organisation.
(2) A period mentioned in Schedule 1 includes the days mentioned as the start and the end of the period.
9 Qualifying period of service
(1) The qualifying period of humanitarian service required to be given by a member of a specified organisation to be eligible for an award of the Medal is 30 days.
(2) The qualifying period of humanitarian service may be aggregated from several periods of service with 1 or more of the specified organisations.
(3) If a person gave humanitarian service as a member of 2 or more specified organisations and a day of the service could be counted as a day of humanitarian service for more than 1 organisation, the day must be counted as 1 day of humanitarian service.
10 When inspection visits count as humanitarian service
(1) A person’s inspection visit counts as humanitarian service if the person made the visit:
(a) as a member of a specified organisation; and
(b) within the period specified in Schedule 1 in relation to the organisation.
(2) If the person made the visit as a member of 2 or more specified organisations and a day of the visit could be counted as a day of humanitarian service for more than 1 organisation, the day must be counted as 1 day of humanitarian service.
11 Ineligibility for the award of the Medal
(1) Eligible service does not include service of the following kinds:
(a) service that is eligible service for an alternative award;
(b) service as a locally-engaged member of the staff of a specified organisation (whether the person is in the specified hazardous area as a refugee or a resident);
(c) service as a commercial contractor, or an employee of a commercial contractor, to a specified organisation.
(2) In paragraph (1) (a):
alternative award means:
(a) an award of a clasp of the Medal denoting the operation declared as a declared operation by the Humanitarian Overseas Service Medal (Great Lakes) Declaration 1999; or
(b) an award of the Mozambique clasp of the Australian Service Medal because of a determination under subregulation 4 (2) of the Australian Service Medal Regulations; or
(c) an award of the Mozambique clasp of the Police Overseas Service Medal because of a determination under subregulation 4 (2) of the Police Overseas Service Medal Regulations.