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Warlike service - OPERATION KRUGER Declaration 2009

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This declaration gives Australian Defence Force members access to home loan benefits for serving in Iraq on Operation Kruger.

Under the Defence Force (Home Loans Assistance) Act 1990, "warlike service" qualifies personnel for special home loan assistance. This document officially declares that duty on Operation Kruger meets that definition.

Who it affects:

ADF members allotted (officially assigned) to Operation Kruger
Those serving in the Iraq area of operations

What it does:

Triggers home loan assistance entitlements under the Act
Applies retrospectively from 1 January 2009 (even though signed in February 2009)

The rules are simple: To qualify, service must be:

In Iraq; and
As a member of the ADF officially assigned to Operation Kruger

This is an administrative instrument that connects a specific military deployment to existing benefit schemes.

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Warlike service – OPERATION KRUGER Declaration 2009

Defence Force (Home Loans Assistance) Act 1990

I, WARREN SNOWDON, Minister for Defence Science and Personnel for the Minister for Defence, make this Declaration under subsection 3C (1) of the Defence Force (Home Loans Assistance) Act 1990.

Dated Wednesday eleventh of February 2009

Signed by Warren Snowdon

Minister for Defence Science and Personnel

for the Minister for Defence

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1 Name of Declaration

This Declaration is the Warlike service – OPERATION KRUGER Declaration 2009.

2 Commencement

This Declaration is taken to have commenced on 1 January 2009.

3 Warlike service – OPERATION KRUGER

For subsection 3C (1) of the Defence Force (Home Loans Assistance) Act 1990, duty is warlike service if it is rendered:

(a) in an area of operations that comprises Iraq; and

(b) as a member of the Australian Defence Force allotted for duty on OPERATION KRUGER.

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