Defence Force (Home Loans Assistance) Act 1990
Declaration of Warlike service
OPERATION CATALYST
I, Danna Vale, Minister for Veterans' Affairs for and on behalf of the Minister for
Defence, declare that service rendered as a member of the ADF allotted for service on OPERATION CATALYST on and from 16 July 2003 in the specified area below is
warlike service for the purposes of section 3C of the Defence Force (Home Loans
Assistance) Act 1990.
- The Specified Area comprises the total land areas, territorial waters,
internal waterways and superjacent airspace boundaries of Iraq,
Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia north of
23 degrees North latitude, the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.
Dated Sixteenth July, 2003
DANNA VALE
Minister for Veterans' Affairs for and on
behalf of the Minister for Defence