War Service Land Settlement Act 1950

In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears –

Board means the Closer Settlement Board constituted under the Closer Settlement Act 1957;

caring partner, in relation to a person, means the person with whom the person is, or was at the time of his or her death, in a caring relationship, within the meaning of the Relationships Act 2003;

Crown land has the same meaning as in the Crown Lands Act 1976;

eligible person means – a discharged member of the Forces who – has been honourably discharged after not less; or having in the opinion of the Board been materially prejudiced by reason of his war service, has been honourably discharged after less – than six months' war service; or a person who is included in a class of persons (if any) that the Minister determines shall be eligible to participate in war service land settlement under this Act – and has been registered under section thirteen A;

holding means the land allotted to an eligible person for the purposes of this Act;

member of the Forces means – a person who is or was, during the war, a member of the Permanent Forces of the Commonwealth, other than the Australian Imperial Force; a person who is or was, during the war, a member of the Australian Imperial Force; a member of the Citizen Forces of the Commonwealth who is or was enlisted, appointed, or called up for continuous service for the duration of, and directly in connection with, the war; a person who is or was, during the war, engaged on continuous full-time service as a member of any of the following services – The Royal Australian Naval Nursing Service; The Women's Royal Australian Naval Service; The Australian Army Nursing Service; The Australian Women's Army Service; The Australian Army Medical Women's Service; The Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service; The Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force; a member of a Voluntary Aid Detachment who is or was, during the war, engaged on continuous full-time paid duty with any part of the Defence Forces of the Commonwealth; a member of the Naval, Military, or Air Forces of any part of the King's Dominions other than Australia who is or was, during the war, engaged on service in a prescribed area and was born in Australia or was, immediately prior to his becoming a member of any of those Forces, domiciled in Australia; and a person who is or was, during the war, engaged on continuous full-time service with any Nursing Service or other Women's Service auxiliary to the Naval, Military, or Air Forces of any part of the King's Dominions other than Australia who was born in Australia or was, immediately prior to her becoming a member of that Service, domiciled in Australia – but does not include any enemy alien who served during the war as a member of the Army Labour Corps but not otherwise;

register the verb, in all its parts, means register under the Land Titles Act 1980, and registration shall be similarly construed;

spouse includes the person with whom a person is, or was at the time of his or her death, in a significant relationship, within the meaning of the Relationships Act 2003;

TDR means Tasmania Development and Resources;

tenancy means a tenancy of a holding created by the Board by allotment under section fifteen or by grant under section seventeen;

tenant means the tenant of a holding, his heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns as the context requires;

the repealed Acts means the Acts repealed by section two;

the war means the war which commenced on the third day of September 1939, and includes any other war in which His Majesty became engaged after that date and before the second day of September 1945;

war service means– service as a member of the Permanent Forces of the Commonwealth, other than the Australian Imperial Force; service in the Australian Imperial Force; the service of a member of the Citizen Forces of the Commonwealth when called out for war service in pursuance of the Defence Act 1903 of the Commonwealth, or during continuous training under that Act, the Naval Defence Act 1910 of the Commonwealth, or the Air Force Act 1923 of the Commonwealth; the continuous full-time service in the Defence Forces under any Act of the Commonwealth or under any regulations under an Act of the Commonwealth, of any person who volunteers and is accepted for that service during the war; in the case of a person specified in paragraphs (d), (e), (f), or (g) of the definition of member of the Forces, service in any of the bodies specified in those paragraphs; or the continuous full-time service of any person as a member of an organization or part thereof which is declared by proclamation under the Re-establishment and Employment Act 1945 of the Commonwealth to be an organization in relation to which the provisions of that Act apply– during the war.