{"id":"F2006B00581","name":"Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 - Determination of Warlike service - OPERATION CATALYST (16/07/2003)","slug":"veterans-entitlements-act-1986-determination-of-warlike-service-operation-catalyst-16-07-2003","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":40729,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2006B00581-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 - Determination of Warlike service - OPERATION CATALYST (16/07/2003)","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 \n\n![](image.001.png)\n\n \n\nVeterans' Entitlements Act 1986\n\n \n\nDetermination of Warlike service\n\nOPERATION CATALYST\n\n \n\nI, Danna Vale, Minister for Veterans' Affairs for and on behalf of the Minister for Defence, determine that service rendered as a member of the ADF allotted for service on or after 16 July 2003 on OPERATION CATALYST in the specified area below is warlike service for the purposes of subsection 5C(1) of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986.\n\n \n\n- The Specified Area comprises the total land areas, territorial waters,\n\n\ninternal waterways and superjacent airspace boundaries of Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia north of 23 degrees\n\nNorth latitude, the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nDated    Sixteenth July,   2003\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\n \n\n \n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1770},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This determination remains tightly scoped to its original purpose: classifying service in Operation Catalyst as warlike service for the specified Middle East theatre. The instrument establishes the initial geographic and temporal boundaries for the operation without expansion beyond the original military deployment area."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative provision with limited conditional logic","Precise geographic boundaries including coordinate-based cutoff (23 degrees North latitude)","Technical terminology requiring specialized knowledge (superjacent airspace, territorial waters, allotted for service)","Cross-reference to parent Act subsection (5C(1)) without explanatory context"],"plain_english_summary":"This determination declares that ADF members serving on Operation Catalyst from 16 July 2003 are performing \"warlike service\" in Iraq and surrounding regions (specified Gulf states, the Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz and adjacent air/sea/land). That classification makes affected personnel eligible for warlike-service veterans' entitlements under the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986, with corresponding benefit and eligibility implications."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/veterans-entitlements-act-1986-determination-of-warlike-service-operation-catalyst-16-07-2003","history":"/api/acts/veterans-entitlements-act-1986-determination-of-warlike-service-operation-catalyst-16-07-2003/history","analysis":"/api/acts/veterans-entitlements-act-1986-determination-of-warlike-service-operation-catalyst-16-07-2003/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/veterans-entitlements-act-1986-determination-of-warlike-service-operation-catalyst-16-07-2003/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/veterans-entitlements-act-1986-determination-of-warlike-service-operation-catalyst-16-07-2003/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/veterans-entitlements-act-1986-determination-of-warlike-service-operation-catalyst-16-07-2003/documents"}}