Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866:section:5c:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 5C (pt 3/7)
Character Range: 32473–35089

sea‑going service on a ship registered in New Zealand who the Commission is satisfied was engaged in Australia and is not entitled to compensation under a law of a Commonwealth country providing for the payment of pensions and other payments to seamen who suffered death or disablement as a result of World War 2.
Commonwealth country means a country (other than Australia) that is, or was at the relevant time, a part of the Dominions of the Crown, and includes:
 (a) a state, province or other territory that is one of 2 or more territories that together form, or formed at the relevant time, a discrete part of such a country; and
 (b) a place that is, or was at the relevant time, a territory, dependency or colony (however described) of a part of such a country.
Commonwealth veteran means a person who rendered continuous full‑time service as a member of:
 (a) the naval, military or air forces; or
 (b) the nursing or auxiliary services of the naval, military or air forces; or
 (c) the women's branch of the naval, military or air forces;
of a Commonwealth country during a period of hostilities.
continuous full‑time service means:
 (a) in relation to a member of the Defence Force:
 (i) service in the Naval Forces of the Commonwealth of the kind known as continuous full‑time naval service; or
 (ii) service in the Military Forces of the Commonwealth of the kind known as continuous full‑time military service; or
 (iii) service in the Air Force of the Commonwealth of the kind known as continuous full‑time air force service; or
 (b) in relation to a member of the naval, military or air forces of a Commonwealth country or an allied country—service in those forces of a kind similar to a kind of service referred to in subparagraph (a)(i), (ii) or (iii).
           Note: See also subsection 5R(1).
Defence Force has the same meaning as in the Defence Act 1903.
defence force established by a Commonwealth country means:
 (a) the naval, military or air forces of the country; or
 (b) the nursing and auxiliary services of the naval, military or air forces of the country; or
 (c) the women's branch of the naval, military or air forces of the country.
defence force established by an allied country means:
 (a) the regular naval, military or air forces; and
 (b) the nursing or auxiliary services of the regular naval, military or air forces; and
 (c) the women's branch of the regular naval, military or air forces;
raised by an allied country and operated by the country with regular military‑like lines of command, that is to say, raised and operated in such a manner that the members of those forces