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Humanitarian Overseas Service Medal (Balkans) Declaration 1999

as amended

made under subregulation 3 (1) of the

Humanitarian Overseas Service Medal Regulations

This compilation was prepared on 7 February 2003
taking into account amendments up to Humanitarian Overseas Service Medal (Balkans) Amendment Declaration 2002 (No. 1)

Prepared by the Office of Legislative Drafting,
Attorney-General's Department, Canberra

Contents

 1 Name of Declaration [see Note 1]
 2 Definitions
 3 Declaration
 4 Name of operation
 5 Geographical extent of hazardous area
 6 Date when declared operation commenced
 7 Eligible service with specified organisations
 8 Period of participation by specified organisations
 9 Qualifying period of service
 10 When inspection visits count as humanitarian service
 11 Ineligibility for an award of the Medal
Part 1 Zone 1
Part 2 Zone 2

Notes

1 Name of Declaration [see Note 1]

  This Declaration is the Humanitarian Overseas Service Medal (Balkans) Declaration 1999.

2 Definitions

 (1) In this Declaration:
declared operation means the operation declared under section 3.
Humanitarian Overseas Service Medal Regulations means the Regulations set out in the Schedule to the Letters Patent dated 16 April 1999 given under the Great Seal of Australia, being the Regulations as amended from time to time.
Regulations means the Humanitarian Overseas Service Medal Regulations.
specified organisation means:
 (a) for Zone 1 — an organisation specified in Part 1 of Schedule 1; and
 (b) for Zone 2 — an organisation specified in Part 2 of Schedule 1.
Zone 1 means the hazardous area specified in paragraph 5 (a).
Zone 2 means the hazardous area specified in paragraph 5 (b).

 (2) Unless the contrary intention appears, a word that is used in this Declaration and in the Regulations has the same meaning in this Declaration as it has in the Regulations.

3 Declaration

  The humanitarian aid operation arising out of the crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia and the crisis in, and in relation to, Serbia (including Kosovo), being an operation that satisfies the conditions mentioned in paragraphs 3 (1) (a) and (b) of the Regulations, is a declared operation.

4 Name of operation

  For the purposes of the Regulations, the name by which the declared operation is to be known is 'Balkans'.

5 Geographical extent of hazardous area

  The geographical extent of the hazardous area of the declared operation is:
 (a) Zone 1, being the area of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia; and
 (b) Zone 2, being the area of the declared operation in Serbia (including Kosovo) and areas in the Republic of Albania and the Former Yugoslavia Republic of Macedonia in which a specified organisation is, or was, carrying out humanitarian service in relation to the declared operation.

6 Date when declared operation commenced

  The date