Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

DEFENCE HOME OWNERSHIP ASSISTANCE SCHEME REGULATIONS 2018 - REG 11

Service only in the Reserves

  ( 1 )   For the purposes of calculating the person's qualifying service period, accrued subsidy period and loan limit, t he person has 1 year of effective service for each service year (other than a transfer year) in which the person performs 20 or more days of Reserve service .

Note 1 :   For working out the number of day s of Reserve service performed , see section   12 .

Note 2 :   A day of Reserve service includes service on a continuous full - time basis ( see section   12 ) .

Note 3:   For the meaning s of service year and transfer year , see section   5 . The person's period of effective service for a transfer year is worked out under Division   5 of this Part.

  ( 2 )   I f:

  (a)   the person performs a period or periods of effective service as a member of the Reserves on a continuous full - time basis in a service year, or in 2 consecutive service years; and

  (b)   the service year , or service years , are not transfer years; and

  (c)   the period, or the sum of the periods , is greater than 6 months but less than 1 year;

then, for the purposes of calculating the person's qualifying service period, the person has 2 years of effective service for that service year or those service years.

  ( 3 )   Subsection   ( 1) does not apply in relation to a service year for the purposes of calculating the person's qualifying service period if subsection   ( 2) applies in relation to the person for the service year.

Service also in the Permanent Forces

  ( 4 )   If the person has also performed service as a member of the Permanent Forces, the person's period of effective service also includes the following periods:

  (a)   assuming that section   9 applied to the person but that the person had only performed service as a member of the Permanent Forces:

  (i)   for the purposes of calculating the person's qualifying service period--a period equal to twice the length of the period of effective service that would have applied under subsection   9 (1); and

  (ii)   for the purposes of calculating the person's accrued subsidy period and loan limit--the period of effective service that would have applied under subsection   9 (1) ;

  (b)   for each of those purposes-- the period worked out under Division   5 (effective service for transfer years) for each transfer year for the person.

Note:   In certain circumstances, the person's period of effective service under this Division may be:

(a)   increased under Division   6 (foreign service members: qualifying service period) or Division   7 (recognising service as effective service in exceptional circumstances) of this Part; or

(b)   decreased under Division   8 (ineffective service) of this Part.