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Re-establishment and Employment Act 1945
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##### 141 Interpretation
(1) In this Division, unless the contrary intention appears:
> employer includes the Crown (whether in right of the Commonwealth or of a State) and an authority constituted by or under the law of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory.
> former employer means, in relation to a member of the Forces, the employer by whom that member of the Forces was employed for not less than twenty-eight days out of the fifty-six days immediately preceding the date upon which he became a member of the Forces, and includes a person for the time being:
(a) carrying on an undertaking or service in which the member of the Forces was so employed; or
(b) carrying on an undertaking or service with which that undertaking or service has been amalgamated or in which that undertaking or service was comprised during those fifty-six days.
> member of the Forces means a person who, on or after the twenty-sixth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and fifty, enlisted in the Permanent Military Forces for a period not exceeding three years and was allotted to that portion of those Forces raised or maintained for service in Korea.
(2) A member of the Forces who, on the expiration of his original enlistment or subsequent re-engagement, re-engages to serve for a further period shall, if the aggregate of the period of original enlistment and the period or periods of re-engagement exceeds three years, be deemed to have enlisted for a period exceeding three years.