NSWIn ForceAct
Registered Clubs Act 1976
30AHonorary membership of RSL or services clubs for serving and ex-service Defence Force personnel
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#### 30A Honorary membership of RSL or services clubs for serving and ex-service Defence Force personnel
30A Honorary membership of RSL or services clubs for serving and ex-service Defence Force personnel
> > (1) The rules of each RSL or services club are taken to include a rule that any person attending the club premises who produces evidence that the person is a serving member of the Australian Defence Force is taken to have been admitted as an honorary member of the club for the day the person attends the club premises.
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> > (2) The rules of each RSL or services club are also taken to include a rule that any person attending the club premises who—
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> > > (a) is a former member of the Australian Defence Force, and
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> > > (b) produces evidence that the person is a Service Member of the RSL and a member of at least one other RSL or services club,
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> > is taken to have been admitted as an honorary member of the club for the day the person attends the club premises.
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> > (3) Section 30 (2) (c) does not apply in relation to a person who is taken to be admitted as an honorary member of an RSL or services club under this section.
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> > (4) In this section—
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> > Australian Defence Force includes the armed forces of the Commonwealth, however described.
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> > RSL means the Returned and Services League of Australia.
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> > RSL or services club means—
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> > > (a) an RSL, Services, Ex-services, Memorial, Legion or other similar club that is a registered club, or
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> > > (b) a registered club that has objects similar to, or that amalgamated with, a club of the kind referred to in paragraph (a).
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> **s 30A:** Ins 2006 No 103, Sch 1 \[24\]. Subst 2011 No 72, Sch 1 \[25\].