{"id":"C1960A00028","name":"National Service (Discharge of Trainees) Act 1960","slug":"national-service-discharge-of-trainees-act-1960","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"28 of 1960","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":15044,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1960A00028-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-03-31","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"National Service (Discharge of Trainees) Act 1960","content":"NATIONAL SERVICE (DISCHARGE OF TRAINEES).\n\nNo. 28 of 1960.\n\nAn Act to make Provision for the Discharge of National Service Trainees.\n\n\\[Assented to 26th May, 1960.\\]\n\nBE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—\n\nShort title.\n\n1. This Act may be cited as the National Service (Discharge of Trainees) Act 1960.\n\nCommencement.\n\n2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.\n\nApplication of Act.\n\n3. This Act applies to any person who, immediately before the date of commencement of this Act, was, by virtue of the National Service Act 1951-1957 or the National Service Act 1957, a member of a part of the Citizen Forces.\n\n  \n\nDischarge of trainees for purpose of voluntary enlistment.\n\n4.—(1.) A person to whom this Act applies may, before the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and sixty, offer himself for voluntary service in the Citizen Naval Forces, the Citizen Military Forces or the Citizen Air Force, and be enlisted accordingly.\n\n(2.) Where a person is voluntarily enlisted in accordance with the last preceding sub-section, he shall be deemed to have been, immediately before that enlistment, discharged from the part of the Citizen Forces of which he was, immediately before that enlistment, a member.\n\nDischarge of other trainees on 30th June, 1960.\n\n5. A person to whom this Act applies who continues up to and including the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and sixty, to be, by virtue of an Act referred to in section three of this Act, a member of a part of the Citizen Forces, shall be deemed to be discharged from that part of those Forces on that date.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":2585},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Act remains tightly focused on its original narrow purpose of discharging trainees from the 1951–1957 national service scheme. It has not expanded beyond this specific administrative wind-up function."},"complexity_factors":["Only 5 short sections with no complex subsection nesting","No definitions section or interpretive provisions","Simple binary choice structure (volunteer before deadline or automatic discharge)","Single fixed date of operation (30 June 1960)","Minimal cross-referencing (only references to parent National Service Acts)"],"plain_english_summary":"This Act provided a short off-ramp for men serving as compulsory national service trainees in the Citizen Forces under the National Service Act 1951–1957. It gave them until 30 June 1960 to either transfer into voluntary part‑time naval, military or air force service (treated as having been discharged from compulsion) or to be automatically discharged on that date.\n\nIt mattered because it legislatively ended the post‑WWII compulsory training scheme while allowing a smooth transition for those who wished to remain in uniform."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/national-service-discharge-of-trainees-act-1960","history":"/api/acts/national-service-discharge-of-trainees-act-1960/history","analysis":"/api/acts/national-service-discharge-of-trainees-act-1960/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/national-service-discharge-of-trainees-act-1960/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/national-service-discharge-of-trainees-act-1960/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/national-service-discharge-of-trainees-act-1960/documents"}}