{"id":"F2006B11645","name":"Defence Force (Home Loans Assistance) Act 1990 - Declaration of Warlike service - OPERATION CITADEL (16/09/2003)","slug":"defence-force-home-loans-assistance-act-1990-declaration-of-warlike-service-operation-citadel-16-09-","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":57628,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2006B11645-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-02","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Defence Force (Home Loans Assistance) Act 1990 - Declaration of Warlike service - OPERATION CITADEL (16/09/2003)","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\nmeta-generator: Aspose.Words for .NET 20.2\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\n![](image.001.png)  \n\n\nDefence Force (Home Loans Assistance) Act 1990\n\nDeclaration of Warlike service  OPERATION CITADEL\n\n \n\n \n\nI, Danna Vale, Minister for Veterans' Affairs for and on behalf of the Minister for Defence:\n\n \n\na. revoke the instrument of 29 January 2003 in relation to OPERATION CITADEL, and\n\n \n\nb. declare that service rendered as a member of the ADF allotted for service during the period 20 May 2002 to 17 August 2003 in the Area of Operations specified below is warlike service for the purposes of subsection 3C of the Defence Force (Home Loans Assistance) Act 1990.\n\n- The area of operations comprises East Timor and the territorial sea of East Timor.\n\n\nDated Sixteenth day of September 2003\n\n \n\nDANNA VALE\n\nMinister for Veterans' Affairs for and on behalf of the Minister for Defence\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1856},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This declaration operates strictly within the existing scope of the enabling Act, exercising the Minister's specific power under section 3C to designate particular ADF operations as warlike service. It applies the established legislative framework to Operation Citadel without expanding, limiting, or altering the underlying scheme."},"complexity_factors":["Single-purpose declaratory instrument with no conditional logic","Only one substantive legislative cross-reference (subsection 3C of the parent Act)","Simple temporal and geographic scope (fixed dates and defined land/sea area)","Minimal procedural complexity involving revocation of one previous instrument"],"plain_english_summary":"This declaration classifies Operation Citadel—the ADF deployment to East Timor from 20 May 2002 to 17 August 2003—as \"warlike service\" under the Defence Force (Home Loans Assistance) Act 1990. That means current and former ADF members who served in East Timor (including its territorial sea) during those dates become eligible for enhanced home‑loan assistance; it also revokes the earlier January 2003 declaration."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/defence-force-home-loans-assistance-act-1990-declaration-of-warlike-service-operation-citadel-16-09-","history":"/api/acts/defence-force-home-loans-assistance-act-1990-declaration-of-warlike-service-operation-citadel-16-09-/history","analysis":"/api/acts/defence-force-home-loans-assistance-act-1990-declaration-of-warlike-service-operation-citadel-16-09-/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/defence-force-home-loans-assistance-act-1990-declaration-of-warlike-service-operation-citadel-16-09-/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/defence-force-home-loans-assistance-act-1990-declaration-of-warlike-service-operation-citadel-16-09-/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/defence-force-home-loans-assistance-act-1990-declaration-of-warlike-service-operation-citadel-16-09-/documents"}}