Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00096:section:4:p11
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00096
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 4 (pt 11/14)
Character Range: 30577–33115

Imperial Force; or
 (d) a member of the Voluntary Aid Detachment;
shall not, by reason only of being or having been such a member, be taken to have been enlisted or appointed for active service outside Australia or on a ship of war.
 (2AA) Subsection (2A) does not apply in relation to a person who, during the Second World War, was:
 (a) a member of the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service, the Australian Women's Army Service or the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force; or
 (b) a member of the Australian Army Medical Women's Service, other than a member of the Australian Imperial Force; or
 (c) a full‑time paid member of the Voluntary Aid Detachment.
 (2AB) For the purposes of the definitions of further advance and initial advance in subsection 4(1), a person of a kind referred to in subsection (2AA) is not taken to have been a purchaser or borrower, merely because the person previously became a purchaser or borrower on the basis that:
 (a) the person's spouse or de facto partner is or was an eligible person, and as a result they were, under subsection 4A(1), treated together as an eligible person for the purposes of this Act; or
 (b) the person's spouse or de facto partner was an eligible person, and the person became an eligible person because her spouse or de facto partner died; or
 (c) the person is an eligible person because she is a dependent parent.
 (2AC) For the purposes of the definitions of further advance and initial advance in subsection 4(1), a man who:
 (a) was an eligible person in his own right; and
 (b) is the widower of a person of a kind referred to in subsection (2AA);
is not taken to have been a purchaser or borrower, merely because he previously became a purchaser or borrower on the basis that:
 (c) he was an eligible person in his own right; or
 (d) his spouse or de facto partner was an eligible person and they were, under subsection 4A(1), together treated as an eligible person for the purposes of this Act; or
 (e) his spouse or de facto partner was an eligible person and he became an eligible person because his spouse or de facto partner died; or
 (f) he was an eligible person because he was a dependent parent.
 (2B) For the purposes of paragraph (c) of the definition of Australian Soldier in subsection (1), a person shall not be taken to have served in the Naval, Military or Air Forces of any part of the Sovereign's dominions, other than the Commonwealth, unless he served in such Forces:
 (a) in an operational area outside the country or place of his enlistment or