Peacekeeping service
s 68 Peacekeeping Forces - definitions
member of a Peacekeeping Force means a person who is serving, or has served, with a Peacekeeping Force outside Australia as an Australian member, or as a member of the Australian contingent, of that Peacekeeping Force.
Peacekeeping Force means:
- a Peacekeeping Force described in an item of Schedule 3; or
(b)a force raised or organised for the purpose of:
(i)peacekeeping in an area outside Australia; or
(ii)observing or monitoring any activities of persons in an area outside Australia that may lead to an outbreak of hostilities;
being a force that is designated by the Minister, by notice published in the Gazette, as a Peacekeeping Force for the purposes of this Part.
peacekeeping service, in relation to a person, means service, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, with a Peacekeeping Force outside Australia, and includes:
(a)any period after the person's appointment or allocation to the Peacekeeping Force during which the person was travelling outside Australia for the purpose of joining the Peacekeeping Force; and
(b)any period (not exceeding 28 days) of authorized travel by the person outside Australia after the person has ceased to serve with the Peacekeeping Force.
68(2)For the purposes of the definition of peacekeeping service in subsection (1):
(a)a person who has travelled from a place in Australia to a place outside Australia shall be deemed to have commenced to travel outside Australia when the person departed from the last port of call in Australia; and
(b)a person who has travelled to Australia from a place outside Australia shall be deemed to have been travelling outside Australia until the person arrived at the first port of call in Australia.
68(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.
68(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.
Schedule 3—Peacekeeping Forces
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Peacekeeping Forces |
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Initial date as a Peacekeeping Force |
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1 |
Security Council Commission of Investigation on the Balkans |
29 January 1947 |
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2 |
Committee of Good Offices |
25 August 1947 |
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3 |
United Nations Special Commission on the Balkans |
26 November 1947 |
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4 |
United Nations Commission on Korea |
1 January 1949 |
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5 |
United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan |
1 January 1949 |
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6 |
United Nations Commission for Indonesia |
28 January 1949 |
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7 |
United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation |
1 June 1956 |
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8 |
United Nations Operations in the Congo |
1 August 1960 |
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9 |
United Nations Yemen Observation Mission |
1 January 1963 |
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10 |
United Nations Force in Cyprus |
14 May 1964 |
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11 |
United Nations India-Pakistan Observation Mission |
20 September 1965 |
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12 |
United Nations Disengagement Observer Force |
1 January 1974 |
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13 |
United Nations Emergency Force Two |
1 July 1976 |
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14 |
United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon |
23 March 1978 |
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15 |
Commonwealth Monitoring Force in Zimbabwe |
24 December 1979 |
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16 |
Sinai Multinational Force and Observers established by the Protocol between the Arab Republic of Egypt and the State of Israel dated 3 August 1981 |
18 February 1982 |
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17 |
United Nations Iran/Iraq Military Observer Group |
11 August 1988 |
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18 |
United Nations Border Relief Operation in Cambodia |
1 February 1989 |
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19 |
United Nations Transition Assistance Group Namibia |
18 February 1989 |
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20 |
United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (Mission des Nations Unies pour un Referendum au Sahara Occidental) |
27 June 1991 |
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21 |
The Australian Police Contingent of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia |
18 May 1992 |
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22 |
The Australian Police Contingent of the United Nations Operation in Mozambique |
27 March 1994 |
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23 |
Australian Defence Support to a Pacific Peacekeeping Force for a Bougainville Peace Conference |
21 September 1994 |
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24 |
The Australian Police Contingent of the Multi‑National Force in Haiti |
10 October 1994 |
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