50Interpretation

50 Interpretation

(1) In this Part:

agricultural occupation includes an occupation by way of farming, horticultural, viticultural, apicultural, dairy farming, poultry farming, pastoral or grazing operations or any other prescribed form of primary production.

eligible person means a person who:

(a) has been discharged, otherwise than by a dishonourable discharge, from the Regular Army Supplement immediately after having rendered national service; and

(b) was, immediately before the service on him of a notice under section 26 of the National Service Act 1951‑1965, engaged in an occupation, business or practice on his own account, as an active member of a partnership, as a share‑farmer or as a contract worker or was, in the opinion of a prescribed authority, prevented from so engaging by reason of his having commenced to render national service;

and includes a former regular serviceman. (2) Where a person is not an eligible person by reason only that he is not a person to whom paragraph (b) of the definition of eligible person in the last preceding subsection applies, a prescribed authority may, if the prescribed authority considers it desirable in the circumstances of the case, determine that the person shall be an eligible person for the purposes of this Part.