Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025A00017:clause:1_442:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025A00017
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 442 (pt 1/5)
Character Range: 40927–43577

442  Definitions
 (1) In this Chapter:
allied country means any country (not being Australia or a Commonwealth country):
 (a) that was, at the relevant time, at war with the enemy; or
 (b) the forces of which were, at the relevant time, engaged in an operational area against forces against which the forces of the Commonwealth were engaged in that area;
and includes:
 (c) 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
 (d) a place that is, or was at the relevant time, a territory, dependency or colony (however described) of such a country.
allotted for duty in an operational area has the meaning given by subsection (2).
Australian mariner means a person who was, during the period of World War 2 from its commencement to and including 29 October 1945:
 (a) a master, officer or seaman employed under agreement, or an apprentice employed under indenture, in sea‑going service on a ship registered in Australia that was engaged in trading between a port in a State or Territory and any other port; or
 (b) a master, officer or seaman employed under agreement, or an apprentice employed under indenture, in sea‑going service on a ship registered outside Australia who was, or whose dependants were, resident in Australia for at least 12 months immediately before the person entered into the agreement or indenture; or
 (c) a master, officer, seaman or apprentice employed on a lighthouse tender, or pilot ship of the Commonwealth or of a State; or
 (d) a pilot employed or licensed by Australia or a State or by an authority constituted by or under a law of the Commonwealth or of a State; or
 (e) a master, officer, seaman or apprentice employed in sea‑going service on a ship owned in Australia and operating from an Australian port, being a hospital ship, troop transport, supply ship, tug, cable ship, salvage ship, dredge, fishing vessel or fisheries investigation vessel; or
 (f) a member or employee of the Commonwealth Salvage Board engaged in sea‑going service under the direction of that Board; or
 (g) a master, officer, seaman or apprentice employed in 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: