3Interpretation

3 Interpretation In these Regulations, and in the forms authorised by these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears: > active service has the same meaning as in the Defence Force Discipline Act 1982. > Army Reserve means the Australian Army Reserve. > Corps means a corps referred to in subregulation 68 (1). > dental officer means an officer of the Royal Australian Army Dental Corps who is or has been a person registered as a dentist under a law of a State or Territory. > Formation means a Command, Military District, Army, Corps, Division, Brigade or Task Force and includes any other part of the Army declared by the Chief of Army to be a formation for the purposes of these regulations. > Head‑quarters means the head‑quarters of the Army. > medical officer means an officer of the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps who is or has been a person registered as a medical practitioner under a law of a State or Territory that provides for the registration of medical practitioners. > member means an officer or soldier. > non‑commissioned officer means a soldier who holds a rank not higher than the rank of staff sergeant or lower than the rank of lance‑corporal or lance‑bombardier. > officer means a person appointed as an officer of the Australian Army. > private soldier includes every soldier not being a warrant officer or non‑commissioned officer. > regimental means connected with a corps, or with any part of a corps. > substantive rank does not include temporary or honorary rank. > the Defence Act and the Act respectively mean the Defence Act 1903‑1927, and all amendments thereof for the time being in force. > unit means a unit specified in the Order of Battle for the Army. > warrant officer means a soldier of the Army holding the rank of warrant officer and includes a soldier holding the rank of warrant officer temporarily or as an honorary rank.