Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866:section:7a:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 7A (pt 1/3)
Character Range: 274740–277293

7A  Qualifying service
 (1) For the purposes of Parts III and VA and sections 85 and 118V, a person has rendered qualifying service:
 (a) if the person has, as a member of the Defence Force:
 (i) rendered service, during a period of hostilities specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of the definition of period of hostilities in subsection 5B(1), at sea, in the field or in the air in naval, military or aerial operations against the enemy in an area, or on an aircraft or ship of war, at a time when the person incurred danger from hostile forces of the enemy in that area or on that aircraft or ship; or
 (ii) rendered service after 29 October 1945 in respect of which the person has been awarded, or has become eligible to be awarded, the Naval General Service Medal or the General Service Medal (Army and Royal Air Force) with the Minesweeping 1945‑51 Clasp, the Bomb‑Mine Clearance 1945‑53 Clasp, the Bomb and Mine Clearance 1945‑49 Clasp or the Bomb and Mine Clearance 1945‑56 Clasp; or
 (iii) rendered service outside Australia in an area described in column 1 of Schedule 2 during the period specified in column 2 of that Schedule opposite to that description, as a member of a unit of the Defence Force that was allotted for duty, or as a person who was allotted for duty, in that area; or
 (iv) rendered warlike service; or
 (v) rendered continuous full‑time service on submarine special operations, at some time in the period starting on 1 January 1978 and ending at the end of 12 May 1997, for which the person has been awarded, or has become eligible to be awarded, the Australian Service Medal with Clasp "SPECIAL OPS"; or
 (vi) rendered continuous full‑time service on submarine special operations, at some time in the period starting on 1 January 1978 and ending at the end of 12 May 1997, for which the person would have been eligible to be awarded the Australian Service Medal with Clasp "SPECIAL OPS" if the person had not already been awarded it for other service; or
 (b) if, during a period of hostilities, the person has, as a member of the defence force established by a Commonwealth country, rendered, in connection with war or war‑like operations in which the Naval, Military or Air Forces of Australia were engaged:
 (i) service, in an area outside that country, at a time when the person incurred danger from hostile forces of the enemy in that area; or
 (ii) service within that country, being service in respect of which the person has been awarded, or has become eligible to be awarded, a campaign medal; or
 (c) if the person