STATUTORY RULES.
1956. No. 33.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE RE-ESTABLISHMENT AND EMPLOYMENT ACT 1945-1955.*
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 1945-1955.
Dated this nineteenth day of April, 1956.
W. J. Slim
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister of State for Repatriation.
Amendment of the Re-establishment and Employment (General) Regulations.†
Commencement.
1. Regulation 2 of these Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on the eleventh day of January, 1952.
2. Regulation 5 of the Re-establishment and Employment (General) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—
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 or the Naval and Air Forces of a part of the Queen’s Dominions other than the Commonwealth, being service before the twentieth day of April, 1956—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 or the Military Forces of a part of the Queen’s Dominions other than the Commonwealth, being service before the twentieth day of April, 1956—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
(c) in relation to the war service of members of the Military and Air Forces of the Commonwealth or the Military and Air Forces of a part of the Queen’s Dominions other than 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.”.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1956.
† Statutory Rules 1952, No. 32.
By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.
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