Re-establishment and Employment (General) Regulations

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STATUTORY RULES.

1952. No. 32.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE RE-ESTABLISHMENT AND EMPLOYMENT ACT 1945–1951.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Re-establishment and Employment Act 1945–1951.

Dated this twenty third day of April, 1952.

W. J. McKell

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Repatriation.

Re-establishment And Employment (General) Regulations.

Citation.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Re-establishment and Employment (General) Regulations.

Commencement.

2.—(1.) Subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, these Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on the eighth day of December, 1951.

(2.) Regulation 5 of these Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on the eleventh day of January, 1952.

Definition.

3. In these Regulations “the Act” means the Re-establishment and Employment Act 1945–1951.

Prescribed areas.

4. For the purposes of section four of the Act, the places that at the commencement of the war as defined in that section were named or described as specified in the Schedule to these Regulations are prescribed areas.

Operational areas.

5. For the purposes of the war as defined by section 139 of the Act, operational areas are—

(a) in relation to the war service of members of the Naval and Air Forces of the Commonwealth—the area of Korea, including the waters contiguous to the coast of Korea for a distance of One hundred nautical miles seaward from the coast;

(b) in relation to the war service of members of the Military Forces of the Commonwealth—the area of Korea, including the waters contiguous to the coast of Korea for a distance of ten nautical miles seaward from the coast; and

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1952.

593.—Price . 9/14.2.1951.


(c) in relation to the war service of members of the Military and Air Forces of the Commonwealth—the area of Malaya, including the waters contiguous to the coast of Malaya for a distance of ten nautical miles seaward from the coast.

THE SCHEDULE.

Regulation 4.

PRESCRIBED AREAS.

Abyssinia

Kenya

Albania

Korea

Aleutian Islands

Labuan

Algeria (Italian)

Libya (Italian)

Anglo-Egyptian Soudan

Luxemburg

Australia

Madagascar

Austria

Malaya

Belgium

Malta

British Borneo

Manchuria

British Solomon Islands Protectorate

Midway Island

Bulgaria

Monaco

Burma

Morocco (Italian)

Canton Island

Nauru

Ceylon

Netherlands East Indies

Channel Islands

New Caledonia

China

New Guinea

Christmas Island

New Hebrides

Cocos Islands

Norway and the adjacent islands under the sovereignty of Norway

Corsica

Crete

Nubia (Italian)

Cyprus

Ocean Island

Czechoslovakia

Palestine

Denmark

Persia

Dodecanese Islands

Philippine Islands

Egypt

Poland

Eritrea

Portugese Timor

Fanning Island

Roumania

Finland

Russia

France

Samoa

French Indo-China

French North Africa

Sarawak

Germany

Shanghai

Gibralta

Singapore

Gilbert and Ellis Islands Group

Somaliland

Greece and the islands in the Aegean Sea under Greek sovereignty

Spitsbergen

Greenland

Straits Settlements

Guam

Syria

Hawaii

Tanganyika Territory

Holland

Hong Kong

Thailand

Hungary

Transjordan

Iceland

Tripolitania (Italian)

India

Tunisia (Italian)

Iraq

United Kingdom

Italy and all the islands of the Mediterranean under Italian sovereignty

Wake Island

Japan (including all the islands forming part of the Japanese Empire or administered by Japan under mandate)

Those parts of the sea over which members of the Naval, Military or Air Forces travelled on service whether in sea-going vessels or in aircraft.

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

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