Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025A00017:clause:1_442:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025A00017
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 442 (pt 2/5)
Character Range: 43356–45930

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:
 (a) 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
 (b) a place that is, or was at the relevant time, a territory, dependency or colony (however described) of a part of such a country.
continuous full‑time operational service means:
 (a) in relation to a member of the Defence Force:
 (i) service in the Naval Forces of the Commonwealth of the kind known as continuous full‑time naval service; or
 (ii) service in the Military Forces of the Commonwealth of the kind known as continuous full‑time military service; or
 (iii) service in the Air Force of the Commonwealth of the kind known as continuous full‑time air force service; or
 (b) in relation to a member of the naval, military or air forces of a Commonwealth country or an allied country—service in those forces of a kind similar to the kind of service referred to in subparagraph (a)(i), (ii) or (iii); or
 (c) if the Minister determines, under paragraph (5)(a), that a person, or a person included in a class of persons, was rendering continuous full‑time operational service while rendering service of a kind specified in the determination—service of that kind that was rendered by that person or a person included in that class of persons.
eligible civilian means a person:
 (a) who was killed, or detained by the enemy, during World War 2; and
 (b) who was, at the time the person was killed or first detained:
 (i) a British subject; and
 (ii) a resident, but not an indigenous inhabitant, of the Territory of Papua or the Territory of New Guinea; and
 (c) who was not, at that time:
 (i) rendering service as a member of the Defence Force; or
 (ii) employed by the Commonwealth on a special mission outside Australia.
enemy means:
 (a) in relation to World War 1 or World War 2—the naval, military or air forces, or any part of the naval, military or air forces, of a State at war with the Crown during that war; or
 (b) in relation to service in, or a period of hostilities in respect of, an operational area—the naval, military or air forces against which the Naval, Military or Air Forces of the Commonwealth were engaged in that operational area; or
 (c) persons assisting any of those forces.
fishing vessel means a ship employed in connection with the occupation