Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866:section:69:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 69 (pt 1/3)
Character Range: 1226531–1229102

69  Application of Part to members of the Forces
 (1) Subject to this section, where a person:
 (a) has served in the Defence Force for a continuous period that commenced on or after 7 December 1972 and before the terminating date; or
 (b) is serving in the Defence Force on or after the terminating date and has so served continuously since a date before that date;
this Part applies to the person:
 (c) if the person:
 (i) has served on continuous full‑time service as a member of the Defence Force after 6 December 1972; and
 (ii) has, whether before or after that date, completed 3 years' effective full‑time service as such a member; or
 (d) if:
 (i) the person has served as a member of the Defence Force under an engagement to serve for a period of continuous full‑time service of not less than 3 years; and
 (ii) the person's service as such a member was terminated before the person had completed 3 years' effective full‑time service as a member of the Defence Force, but after 6 December 1972, by reason of the person's death or the person's discharge on the ground of invalidity or physical or mental incapacity to perform duties; or
 (e) if:
 (i) the person has served as an officer of the Defence Force otherwise than under an appointment to serve for a period of continuous full‑time service of less than 3 years; and
 (ii) the person's service as such an officer was terminated before the person had completed 3 years' effective full‑time service as a member of the Defence Force, but after 6 December 1972, by reason of the person's death or the termination of the person's appointment on the ground of invalidity or physical or mental incapacity to perform duties; or
 (f) if the person:
 (i) was, immediately before 7 December 1972, a national serviceman or a national service officer, for the purposes of the National Service Act 1951, serving in the Regular Army Supplement; and
 (ii) on or after that date:
 (A) completed the period of service in the Regular Army Supplement for which the person was to be deemed to have been engaged to serve or for which the person was appointed, as the case may be; or
 (B) the person's service in the Regular Army Supplement was terminated by reason of the person's death, or of the person's discharge or the termination of the person's appointment, on the ground of invalidity or physical or mental incapacity to perform duties.
 (2) Where:
 (a) a person has served in the Defence Force as set out in subsection (1); and
 (b) after, but not immediately after, the termination of the period of service referred to