Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00096:section:4aaa:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00096
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 4AAA (pt 1/4)
Character Range: 38119–40681

4AAA  Regular Serviceman
 (1) Subject to this section, a person is a regular serviceman for the purposes of this Act if:
 (a) he has served on continuous full‑time service as a member of the Defence Force, not being service that ended before 7 December 1972, and, during that service, has:
 (i) in the case of service that commenced before 17 August 1977—completed, whether before or after 7 December 1972, 3 years' effective full‑time service as such a member; or
 (ii) in the case of service that commenced on or after 17 August 1977—completed a period of 6 years' effective full‑time service as such a member, being a period at the expiration of which he continued to render full‑time service as such a member otherwise than by reason only of a delay in discharging him or otherwise terminating that service, including a delay for the purpose of the treatment or observation of an illness or injury;
 (b) he was engaged to serve as a member of the Defence Force for a period of continuous full‑time service of:
 (i) in the case of a person so engaged before 17 August 1977—not less than 3 years; or
 (ii) in the case of a person so engaged on or after 17 August 1977—not less than 6 years;
  but that service ended, on or after 7 December 1972, by reason of his death or his discharge on the ground of invalidity or physical or mental incapacity to perform duties; or
 (c) he was an officer appointed for continuous full‑time service in the Defence Force (other than an officer appointed before 17 August 1977 whose appointment was for a period of continuous full‑time service of less than 3 years or an officer appointed on or after 17 August 1977 whose appointment was for a period of continuous full‑time service of less than 6 years), but that service ended, on or after 7 December 1972, by reason of his death or the termination of his appointment on the ground of invalidity or physical or mental incapacity to perform duties;
but, subject to subsection (5A), not if the person's first service in the Defence Force began after 14 May 1985.
 (2) For the purposes of paragraph (a) of subsection (1):
 (a) the service of a person as an officer of the Naval Forces undergoing the course of training at the Royal Australian Naval College, and his service after completion of that course, shall be disregarded unless the officer is subsequently promoted to the rank of sub‑lieutenant or a higher rank;
 (b) the service of a person as a member of the Corps of Staff Cadets of the Military Forces shall be disregarded unless the person is subsequently appointed