Determination of Non-warlike Service
OPERATION SPIRE
I, De-Anne Kelly, Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, for the Minister for Defence:
a. revoke the determination made under subsection 5C(1) of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986 (the Act) on 3 August 2004 in relation to Operation SPIRE; and
b. determine that:
(i) service rendered as a member of the Australian Defence Force assigned for service on Operation SPIRE on or after 20 May 2004 in the area of operations specified in subparagraph (ii) is non-warlike service for the purposes of the definition of “non-warlike service” in subsection 5C(1) of the Act; and
(ii) the area of operations comprises East Timor and the territorial sea of East Timor.
Dated 8 th December 2005
DE-ANNE KELLY
Minister for Veterans’ Affairs
for the Minister for Defence