Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

Determination of Non-warlike Service

OPERATION BEL ISI AND OPERATION BEL ISI II

I, Mal Brough, Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence for and on behalf of the Minister for Defence:

a.       revoke the determination made by the Minister for Defence Industry, Science and Personnel dated 23 December 1997 in relation to the Truce Monitoring Group,

b.      revoke the determination made by the Minister for Defence Industry, Science and Personnel dated 13 May 1998 in relation to the Peace Monitoring Group, and

c.   determine that service rendered as a member of the ADF serving with the Truce Monitoring Group on Operation BEL ISI or the Peace Monitoring
Group on Operation BEL ISI II during the period 20 November 1997 to 26 August 2003 in the Specified Area below is non-warlike service for the purposes of subsection 5C (1) of the veterans' Entitlements Act 1986.

•    The specified area comprises Bougainville, Buka Islands and the Papua New Guinea territorial waters surrounding those islands.

Dated                                       23/10/              2003

MAL BROUGH

Minister Assisting the Minister

for Defence for and on behalf of the

Minister for Defence