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Military Rehabilitation and Compensation (Nonwarlike Service) Determination 2019

I, Darren Chester, Minister for Defence Personnel, make the following determination.

Dated 13 March 2019

Darren Chester

Minister for Defence Personnel

 

 

 

 

 

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedule 2

5 Definitions

6 Nonwarlike service

Schedule 1—Nonwarlike service

1 Nonwarlike service

Schedule 2—Repeals

Military Rehabilitation and Compensation (Nonwarlike Service—2017 Measures No. 1) Determination 2017

1  Name

  This instrument is the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation (Non-warlike Service) Determination 2019.

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.

22 March 2019

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 paragraph 6(1)(b) of the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004.

4  Schedule 2

  Each instrument that is specified in Schedule 2 to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in that Schedule, and any other item in that Schedule has effect according to its terms.

5  Definitions

  In this instrument:

Act means the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004.

ADF means the Australian Defence Force (within the meaning of the Defence Act 1903).

NATO means the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

6  Nonwarlike service

  Schedule 1 specifies service with the Defence Force that is nonwarlike service for the purposes of the Act.

Schedule 1Nonwarlike service

Note: See section 6.

 

 

1  Nonwarlike service

  For the purposes of paragraph 6(1)(b) of the Act, service with the Defence Force in an operation mentioned in an item of the following table is nonwarlike service if the service:

 (a) is in an area of operation mentioned in the item; and

 (b) occurs during the period mentioned in the item in relation to that area of operation.

 

Nonwarlike service

Item

Name of operation

Nature of operation

Area of operation

Period

1

Mazurka

Multinational Force and Observers—Sinai

Egypt, between the east bank of the Suez Canal and the international boundary between Egypt and Israel established by the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel signed in Washington on 26 March 1979, and an adjoining area extending 5 kilometres into Israel

On and after 28 January 1993

2

Osier

NATO Stabilisation Force

The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, BosniaHerzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia and Montenegro

24 January 1997–12 December 2011

3

Joint Guardian

United Nations Kosovo Force

Albania, Serbia, Montenegro and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

11 June 1999–12 December 2011

4

Pomelo

ADF contribution to the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea

Ethiopia and Eritrea

15 January 2001–31 May 2005

5

Paladin

ADF contribution to the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization

The total land area, territorial waters and superjacent airspace within the internationally recognised boundaries of Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt

21 April 2003–11 July 2006

5A

Paladin

ADF contribution to the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization

The total land area, territorial waters and superjacent airspace within the internationally recognised boundaries of Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt, excluding the following area: Southern Lebanon bounded by 33°12N 35°12E, 33°10N 35°20E, 33°19N 35°25E, on the Litani River, then along the Litani River to 33°25N 35°37E, 33°22N 35°49E, on the SyriaLebanon border, then south to the junction of the SyriaLebanonIsrael border, then east along the LebanonIsrael border to the coast, then north along the coast to 33°12N 35°12E

12 July 2006–14 August 2006

5B

Paladin

ADF contribution to the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization

The total land area, territorial waters and superjacent airspace within the internationally recognised boundaries of Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt

On and after 15 August 2006

6

Anode

ADF contribution to the Australian Government’s Strengthened Assistance Framework Program in support of the Solomon Islands Government

The total land areas, territorial waters and superjacent airspace boundaries of the Solomon Islands

24 July 2003–30 September 2013

7

Citadel

United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor

East Timor and the territorial sea of East Timor

18 August 2003–26 June 2008

8

Spire

United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor

East Timor and the territorial sea of East Timor

20 May 2004–26 June 2008

9

Azure

United Nations Mission in Sudan

Sudan

10 April 2005–31 December 2011

10

Astute

ADF stabilisation operation in support of the Government of East Timor

East Timor and its territorial waters and superjacent airspace

12 May 2006–19 April 2013

11

Ramp

ADF operation in the Middle East in support of the Australian whole of government response to the crisis in Lebanon

Lebanon and its territorial waters and superjacent airspace

20 July 2006–27 November 2008

12

Quickstep

ADF mission in Fiji

Fiji and its land, internal waters, archipelagic waters, territorial sea and superjacent airspace and the exclusive economic zone of Fiji

31 October 2006–22 December 2006

13

Quickstep Tonga

ADF operation to assist the Government of Tonga with the restoration of law and order in Tonga

The sovereign territory of Tonga, including the land territory, internal waters, territorial sea and superjacent airspace of Tonga and the exclusive economic zone of Tonga and its superjacent airspace

18–30 November 2006

14

Hedgerow

ADF contribution to the hybrid United Nations and African Union mission in Darfur

Sudan

28 July 2008–23 June 2011

15

 

ADF contribution to the NATO nofly zone and maritime enforcement operation against Libya

The international waters and superjacent airspace of the central southern Mediterranean Sea between 10°00E and 28°00E and south of 41°00N, including portions of Italy, Greece, Turkey, Albania and all of Malta and north of Libya and its territorial waters and superjacent airspace

31 March 2011

31 October 2011

16

Aslan

ADF contribution to the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan

South Sudan and its superjacent airspace

On and after 23 September 2011

17

Accordion

Supporting operations in Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates in relation to the ADF contribution to the International Coalition against Terrorism

The area bounded by the land mass and superjacent airspaces of Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates

On and after 1 July 2014

18

Manitou

Maritime operations, including counterpiracy operations

The area:

(a) comprising all sea and superjacent airspace of the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea north of latitude 11°00S and west of longitude 68°00E; and

(b) including the ports adjacent to the area mentioned in paragraph (a), and the area within a 10 kilometre radius of each port

1 July 2014–13 May 2015

18A

Manitou

Maritime operations, including counterpiracy operations

The area:

(a) comprising all sea and superjacent airspace of the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman, the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, the Gulf of Suez, the Gulf of Aqaba and the Indian Ocean north of latitude 15°00S and west of longitude 68°00E; and

(b) including the ports adjacent to the area mentioned in paragraph (a), and the area within a 10 kilometre radius of each port

14 May 2015–13 November 2016

18B

Manitou

Maritime operations, including counterpiracy operations

The area:

(a) comprising all sea and superjacent airspace of the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman, the Gulf of Aden, the Gulf of Suez, the Gulf of Aqaba, the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea north of latitude 15°00′S and west of longitude 70°00′E and the Indian Ocean north of latitude 15°00S and west of longitude 70°00E; and

(b) including the ports adjacent to the area mentioned in paragraph (a), and the area within a 10 kilometre radius of each port

On and after 14 November 2016

19

Okra

ADF contribution to the Iraq crisis

The land area, territorial waters and superjacent airspace of Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, and the waters and superjacent airspace of the Persian Gulf

1 July 2014–8 August 2014

19A

Okra

ADF contribution to the Iraq crisis

The land area, territorial waters and superjacent airspace of Albania, Bahrain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Jordan, Kuwait, Montenegro, Poland, Qatar, Romania and the United Arab Emirates, and the waters and superjacent airspace of the Persian Gulf

9 August 2014–8 September 2015

19B

Okra

ADF contribution to the Iraq and Syria crisis

The following areas:

(a) the land area, territorial waters and superjacent airspace of Albania, Bahrain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Jordan, Kuwait, Montenegro, Poland, Qatar, Romania and the United Arab Emirates;

(b) the waters and superjacent airspace of the Persian Gulf;

(c) the land territory of Turkey east of longitude 35°00E, including superjacent airspace and territorial waters

On and after 9 September 2015

20

Augury

Supporting the ADF’s understanding of Islamist terrorist threats to Australia and the region

Jordan and its superjacent airspace

4 July 2014–27 April 2016

20A

Augury

Supporting the ADF’s understanding of Islamist terrorist threats to Australia and the region

The land area, territorial waters and superjacent airspace of Jordan and the United Arab Emirates

On and after 28 April 2016

21

Hawick

ADF contribution to the whole of government response to the MH17 air disaster in Ukraine

Ukraine and its superjacent airspace

21 July 2014–18 May 2015

22

 

ADF contribution to efforts against global terrorism

The land, territorial waters and superjacent airspace of Libya

16 May 2016–2 August 2016

23

Litten

Maritime operations in the Mediterranean Sea

Libyan territorial waters

31 August 2016–21 October 2016

23A

Litten

Maritime operations in the Mediterranean Sea

Libyan territorial waters

On and after 4 November 2016

Note: Serbia and Montenegro, included in the area of operation for operations Osier and Joint Guardian (see table items 2 and 3), were united as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia between 1992 and 2006.

Schedule 2Repeals

 

Military Rehabilitation and Compensation (Nonwarlike Service—2017 Measures No. 1) Determination 2017

1  The whole of the instrument

Repeal the instrument.