{"id":"F2006B11647","name":"Defence Force (Home Loans Assistance) Act 1990 - Declaration of Warlike service - OPERATION FALCONER (16/09/2003)","slug":"defence-force-home-loans-assistance-act-1990-declaration-of-warlike-service-operation-falconer-16-09","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":57632,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2006B11647-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Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Defence Force (Home Loans Assistance) Act 1990 -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 FALCONER (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 FALCONER)\n\nI, Danna Vale, Minister for Veterans' Affairs for and on behalf of the Minister for\n\nDefence:\n\na. revoke the instrument of 19 March 2003 in relation to Operation FALCONER,\n\n and\n\n \n\nb.                   declare that service rendered as a member of the ADF allotted for service\n\n during the period 18 March 2003 to 22 July 2003 with Operation FALCONER\n\n in the Specified Area below is warlike service for the purposes of subsection\n\n 3C of the Defence Force (Home Loans Assistance) Act 1990.\n\n \n\n- The Specified Area is bounded by the following geographical coordinates:\n\n\n \n\n-            38 00N  68 00E\n-            38 00N  32 00E\n-            10 00N  32 00E\n-            10 00N  68 00E\n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nDated Sixteenth day of September 2003\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nDANNA VALE\n\nMinister for Veterans' Affairs for and on\n\nbehalf of the Minister for Defence\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1356},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This declaration operates exactly within the bounds intended by the Defence Force (Home Loans Assistance) Act 1990. It performs the specific function authorised by the Act: declaring particular military operations as warlike service to trigger benefit entitlements. There is no expansion beyond the original legislative purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative provision with no conditional logic","No defined terms or interpretation section","Straightforward date range and geographic coordinates","Only one cross-reference to the parent Act (subsection 3C)"],"plain_english_summary":"This ministerial declaration reclassifies Operation FALCONER (Australia’s 2003 Iraq War deployment) as \"warlike service\" for Defence Force (Home Loans Assistance) Act purposes, replacing the 19 March 2003 declaration. It applies to ADF members who served in the specified Middle East area between 18 March and 22 July 2003, affecting eligibility and the level of subsidised home-loan assistance they receive."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/defence-force-home-loans-assistance-act-1990-declaration-of-warlike-service-operation-falconer-16-09","history":"/api/acts/defence-force-home-loans-assistance-act-1990-declaration-of-warlike-service-operation-falconer-16-09/history","analysis":"/api/acts/defence-force-home-loans-assistance-act-1990-declaration-of-warlike-service-operation-falconer-16-09/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/defence-force-home-loans-assistance-act-1990-declaration-of-warlike-service-operation-falconer-16-09/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/defence-force-home-loans-assistance-act-1990-declaration-of-warlike-service-operation-falconer-16-09/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/defence-force-home-loans-assistance-act-1990-declaration-of-warlike-service-operation-falconer-16-09/documents"}}