Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866:section:68:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 68 (pt 3/4)
Character Range: 1222639–1225186

at the first port of call in Australia.
 (3) The Peacekeeping Force described in an item of Schedule 3 is taken to have become a Peacekeeping Force for the purposes of this Part on the day specified in column 3 of that item.
 (3A) A force designated by notice published in the Gazette, in accordance with paragraph (b) of the definition of Peacekeeping Force in subsection 68(1), as a Peacekeeping Force is taken to have become a Peacekeeping Force for the purposes of this Part on the date specified in the notice as the date on which it is to become, or is taken to have become, a Peacekeeping Force for the purposes of this Part.
 (4) For the purposes of the definition of defence service in subsection (1), 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 this subsection, the person becomes bound to serve as a member of the Defence Force for a further term commencing immediately after the expiration of the relevant term, or of the extension of the relevant term, as the case may be;
the relevant term shall be deemed to be extended, or further extended, as the case may be, until the expiration of that further term.
 (5) Where a person who, immediately before the terminating date, was bound to render continuous full‑time service as a member of the Defence Force for a term expiring on or after the terminating date is, before the expiration of that term or of an extension of that term by virtue of subsection (4), discharged from the Defence Force for the purpose of being appointed an officer:
 (a) 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 purposes of the definition of defence service in subsection (1); and
 (b) the relevant term, within the meaning of subsection (4), in respect of the person shall be deemed to be extended until the expiration of the period of continuous full‑time service that the person is bound to render by reason of his or her appointment as 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