{"id":"F2006B11646","name":"Defence Force (Home Loans Assistance) Act 1990 - Declaration of Warlike service - OPERATION TANAGER (01/04/2004)","slug":"defence-force-home-loans-assistance-act-1990-declaration-of-warlike-service-operation-tanager-01-04-","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":57630,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2006B11646-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Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Defence Force (Home Loans Assistance) Act 1990 -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 TANAGER (01/04/2004)","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 TANAGER\n\nI, Mal Brough, Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence, for and on behalf of the Minister for Defence, declare that service rendered as a member of the Australian Defence Force allotted for service:\n\n1. during the period 20 February 2000 to 19 May 2002 on Operation TANAGER; and\n\n\n \n\nb.                in the area of operations comprising East Timor and the territorial sea of East Timor.\n\n \n\nis warlike service for the purposes of subsection 3C of the Defence Force (Home Loans Assistance) Act 1990.\n\nDated 1st April 2004\n\nMAL BROUGH\n\nMinister Assisting the Minister\n\nfor Defence for and on behalf of the\n\nMinister for Defence\n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1337},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This declaration precisely fulfills the original purpose of the Defence Force (Home Loans Assistance) Act 1990. The Act is designed specifically to allow the Minister to declare particular military operations as 'warlike service' to trigger home loan benefits. The scope remains tightly confined to the Operation Tanager deployment in East Timor."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative provision with no subsections","No defined terms requiring interpretation","Straightforward temporal scope (fixed dates)","Simple geographic limitation (single country and territorial waters)","No exceptions, conditions, or cross-references beyond the enabling Act section"],"plain_english_summary":"This declaration gives **subsidised home loan benefits** to Australian Defence Force (ADF) members who served on **Operation Tanager** in East Timor.\n\n**What it does:**\n- Declares that service between **20 February 2000 and 19 May 2002** in East Timor and its surrounding territorial waters counts as \"**warlike service**\"\n- This triggers the **Defence Force (Home Loans Assistance) Scheme**, which helps service members buy homes with reduced interest rates and government subsidies\n\n**Who it affects:**\n- ADF personnel who were officially allotted (assigned) to Operation Tanager during that specific 26-month period\n- Includes members who served in the operational area comprising East Timor and its territorial sea\n\n**Why it matters:**\nWithout this ministerial declaration, service on that peacekeeping/stabilisation operation would not have qualified for the enhanced home loan benefits reserved for warlike service under the Act."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/defence-force-home-loans-assistance-act-1990-declaration-of-warlike-service-operation-tanager-01-04-","history":"/api/acts/defence-force-home-loans-assistance-act-1990-declaration-of-warlike-service-operation-tanager-01-04-/history","analysis":"/api/acts/defence-force-home-loans-assistance-act-1990-declaration-of-warlike-service-operation-tanager-01-04-/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/defence-force-home-loans-assistance-act-1990-declaration-of-warlike-service-operation-tanager-01-04-/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/defence-force-home-loans-assistance-act-1990-declaration-of-warlike-service-operation-tanager-01-04-/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/defence-force-home-loans-assistance-act-1990-declaration-of-warlike-service-operation-tanager-01-04-/documents"}}