Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2023C00339:section:13:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2023C00339
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 13 (pt 2/4)
Character Range: 35566–38108

employment unless it was continuous with, and immediately preceded, a period during which he or she was employed in a service referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of the definition of relevant service in subsection (1); and
 (b) a person shall be taken not to have been employed in the service of a body, being the Commonwealth, the Independent State of Papua New Guinea or a body referred to in paragraph (b) of the definition of relevant service in subsection (1), during a period:
 (i) during which he or she was employed by that body in an honorary capacity only; or
 (ii) in respect of which he or she was remunerated for his or her services to that body by fees, allowances or commission only.
 (5) For the purposes of subsection (3), subsections 12(1), (2), (3) and (10) apply to and in relation to any employment of a person to whom this section applies after 15 September 1975 in a relevant service as if it were employment in a qualifying service.
 (6) Where a continuous period of employment of a person to whom this section applies in a qualifying service has commenced after, but not more than 12 months after, the expiration of the period of his or her relevant employment, those periods of employment shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be continuous with one another.
 (7) For the purposes of subsection (6), where a person to whom this section applies has undertaken a course of full‑time training:
 (a) under a scheme established by the Commonwealth for the training of persons who have served in the Defence Force; or
 (b) under a training scheme that is a prescribed training scheme for the purposes of paragraph 12(6)(b);
after the expiration of the period of his or her relevant employment and before he or she has become employed in a qualifying service, he or she shall be deemed to have become employed in the qualifying service not more than 12 months after the expiration of the period of his or her relevant employment if the period between the date of expiration of the period of his or her relevant employment and the date on which he or she became employed in the qualifying service, less the period of his or her course of full‑time training under that scheme, does not exceed 12 months.
 (8) Where a continuous period of employment of a person to whom this section applies in a service of a kind referred to in paragraph 11(2)(c), (d) or (f) has commenced after, but not immediately after, the expiration of the period of his or her relevant employment, those periods of employment shall, for the