2010‑2011‑2012
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
Australian Citizenship Amendment (Defence Service Requirement) Bill 2012
No. , 2012
(Mr Robert)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Australian Citizenship Act 2007, and for related purposes
Contents
1............ Short title............................................................................................. 1
2............ Commencement................................................................................... 1
3............ Schedule(s)......................................................................................... 2
Schedule 1—Amendments 3
Australian Citizenship Act 2007 3
A Bill for an Act to amend the Australian Citizenship Act 2007, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Defence Service Requirement) Act 2012.
2 Commencement
This Act commences on the day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.
3 Schedule(s)
Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendments
Australian Citizenship Act 2007
1 Paragraph 21(2)(c)
Omit “has completed relevant defence service”, substitute “satisfies the defence service requirement”.
2 Paragraph 21(3)(c)
Omit “has completed relevant defence service”, substitute “satisfies the defence service requirement”.
3 Paragraph 21(4)(d)
Omit “has completed relevant defence service”, substitute “satisfies the defence service requirement”.
4 Section 23
Repeal the section, substitute:
23 Defence service requirement
(1) For the purposes of section 21, a person satisfies the defence service requirement if the person:
(a) has completed relevant defence service (see subsection (2)); or
(b) is the spouse or de facto partner of a person who has completed relevant defence service; or
(c) is a child of a person who has completed relevant defence service, being a child who:
(i) is aged under 18 or is a student aged 25 or under; and
(ii) is wholly or substantially dependent on the person who has completed relevant defence service.
(2) A person has completed relevant defence service if the person:
(a) has completed:
(i) at least 90 days service in the permanent forces of the Commonwealth; or
(ii) at least 6 months service in the Naval Reserve, the Army Reserve or Air Force Reserve; or
(b) was discharged from that service as medically unfit for that service and who became so unfit because of that service.