Defence Force (Home Loans Assistance) (Warlike Service—Operation Augury) Declaration 2017 (Cth)

Defence Force (Home Loans Assistance) (Warlike Service—Operation Augury) Declaration 2017

I, Dan Tehan, Minister for Defence Personnel, make the following declaration.

Dated   23 October 2017

Dan Tehan

Minister for Defence Personnel

Contents

1............ Name............................................................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement............................................................................................................. 1

3............ Authority....................................................................................................................... 1

4............ Definitions..................................................................................................................... 1

5............ Warlike service.............................................................................................................. 1

1  Name

This instrument is the Defence Force (Home Loans Assistance) (Warlike Service—Operation Augury) Declaration 2017.

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.	3 November 2017

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 subsection 3C(1) of the Defence Force (Home Loans Assistance) Act 1990.

4  Definitions

In this instrument:

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

5  Warlike service

For the purposes of subsection 3C(1) of the Defence Force (Home Loans Assistance) Act 1990, duty in an operation mentioned in an item of the following table is warlike service for the purposes of that Act if the duty is performed:

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

(b)  during a period mentioned in the item.

Warlike service
Item	Name of operation	Nature of operation	Area of operation	Period
1	Augury	Supporting the ADF’s understanding of Islamist terrorist threats to Australia and the region	Afghanistan and its superjacent airspace	On and after 28 April 2016