Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00176:section:4:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00176
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 4 (pt 3/3)
Character Range: 27911–28932

state of defence emergency no longer exists.
Time of War—Means any time during which a state of war actually exists, and includes the time between the issue of a proclamation of the existence of war or of danger thereof and the issue of a proclamation declaring that the war or danger thereof, declared in the prior proclamation, no longer exists.
Vice Chief of the Defence Force means the Vice Chief of the Defence Force appointed under subsection 12(2).
War—Means any invasion or apprehended invasion of, or attack or apprehended attack on, Australia by an enemy or armed force.
 (3) For the purposes of Part IV, a person is taken to have a conscientious belief in relation to a matter if the person's belief in respect of that matter:
 (a) involves a fundamental conviction of what is morally right and morally wrong, whether or not based on religious considerations; and
 (b) is so compelling in character for that person that he or she is duty bound to espouse it; and
 (c) is likely to be of a long standing nature.