Discharged Servicemen's Badges Act 1967

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Discharged Servicemen’s Badges Act 1967

• Reprinted under the Reprints Act 1984 as
• at 10 January 2003

Western Australia

Discharged Servicemen’s Badges Act 1967

Contents

1. Short title 1

2. Interpretation 1

3. Limitation on the wearing of badges 1

4. Saving 2

Schedule

Notes

Compilation table 4

• Crest Reprinted under the Reprints Act 1984 as
• at 10 January 2003

Western Australia

Discharged Servicemen’s Badges Act 1967

An Act relating to the wearing of badges issued by certain associations of discharged servicemen.

1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Discharged Servicemen’s Badges Act 1967 1.

2. Interpretation

In this Act, “discharged servicemen’s association” means a body specified in the Schedule.

3. Limitation on the wearing of badges

(1) A person who is not a member of that association shall not, without lawful excuse, wear a badge, or a colourable imitation of a badge, issued by a discharged servicemen’s association for the purpose of identifying its members.

Penalty: $40.

(2) The provisions of subsection (1) do not apply to a person who, having been a member of a discharged servicemen’s association, has been excluded from membership, by operation of its rules, unless he has been served, either personally or by pre-paid registered post, with notice of the fact that he has been so excluded.

4. Saving

Nothing in this Act affects the operation of the Returned Servicemen’s Badges Act 1953.

Schedule

section 2

Totally and Permanently Disabled Soldiers’ Association of Australia (W.A. Branch) Inc.

The Limbless Soldiers’ Association of W.A. (Inc.).

Australian Flying Corps and Royal Australian Air Force Association (Western Australia Division) Incorporated.

Australian Legion of Ex‑servicemen and Women Incorporated West Australian Branch.

Notes

1 This is a reprint as at 10 January 2003 of the Discharged Servicemen’s Badges Act 1967. The following table contains information about that Act.

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