Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00096:section:4aaa:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00096
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 4AAA (pt 2/4)
Character Range: 40451–43067

is subsequently promoted to the rank of sub‑lieutenant or a higher rank;
 (b) the service of a person as a member of the Corps of Staff Cadets of the Military Forces shall be disregarded unless the person is subsequently appointed as an officer of those Forces; and
 (c) the service of a person as an Air Cadet of the Air Force shall be disregarded unless the person is subsequently appointed as an officer of that Force.
 (2A) For the purposes of paragraph (b) of subsection (1), where a person re‑engages to serve as a member of the Defence Force, other than as an officer, for a period of continuous full‑time service, he shall be taken to have been engaged on his enlistment to serve until the expiration of the period for which he re‑engages.
 (2B) For the purposes of paragraph (c) of subsection (1), where an officer commences a period of continuous full‑time service immediately after the expiration of a previous period of such service by him, whether as an officer or otherwise, he shall be taken to have been appointed on the commencement of that previous period to serve until the expiration of the later period.
 (3) Paragraphs (b) and (c) of subsection (1) do not apply in relation to a discharge or termination of appointment:
 (a) that occurred before the person concerned had completed twelve months' effective full‑time service; and
 (b) the ground for which was invalidity, or physical or mental incapacity to perform duties, caused, or substantially contributed to, by a physical or mental condition that:
 (i) existed at the time the person concerned commenced full‑time continuous service as a member of the Defence Force; and
 (ii) was not aggravated, or was not materially aggravated, by that service.
 (4) Paragraph (c) of subsection (1) does not apply in relation to a period of service referred to in paragraph (b) of subsection (6) that was brought to an end by the death, or the termination of the appointment, of the officer concerned.
 (5) A member of the Defence Force not on continuous full‑time service who has, whether before or after the commencement of this section, commenced continuous full‑time service in pursuance of a voluntary undertaking given by him and accepted by the appropriate authority of the Defence Force shall:
 (a) if he was an officer on the day on which he so commenced—be deemed, for the purposes of paragraph (c) of subsection (1), to have been appointed as an officer of the Defence Force on that day for service for the period for which he was bound to serve on continuous full‑time service; or
 (b) if he was a member other than an officer on the day on