Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866:section:68:p4
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 68 (pt 4/4)
Character Range: 1224949–1226529

an officer.
 (6) Where:
 (a) immediately before the terminating date, a person was bound to render continuous full‑time service as a member of the Defence Force for a term (in this subsection referred to as the relevant term) expiring on or after the terminating date; and
 (b) on or before the expiration of the relevant term, or of an extension of the relevant term by virtue of a previous application of subsection (4) or (5), the person is discharged from the Army for the purpose of being appointed an officer of the Army, being an appointment that is not expressed to be for a specified period of service in a specified part of the Army or for such a period of service followed by a specified period of service in another part of the Army;
that discharge shall not be taken to be the lawful termination of the person's services as a member of the Defence Force for the purpose of the definition of defence service in subsection (1) and the relevant term in respect of the person shall be deemed to be extended or further extended, as the case requires, until the lawful termination of that person's service in pursuance of that appointment.
 (7) Subsections (4), (5) and (6) do not apply to a person who was bound to render continuous full‑time service as a member of the Defence Force immediately before the terminating date unless the person:
 (a) was so rendering continuous full‑time service immediately before the commencement of this Act; and
 (b) continued so to render continuous full‑time service until and including the day immediately before the terminating date.