Commonwealth Numbered Regulations Commonwealth Numbered RegulationsService only in the Permanent Forces
(1) For the purposes of calculating the person's qualifying service period, accrued subsidy period and loan limit, the person's period of effective service includes each period during which the person performed continuous full-time service as a member of the Permanent Forces that is effective service, excluding any part of the period that is in a transfer year.
Note: For the meaning of 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.
Service also in the Reserves
(2) If the person has also performed service as a member of the Reserves, the person's period of effective service also includes the following periods:
(a) assuming that section 11 applied to the person but that the person had only performed service as a member of the Reserves:
(i) for the purposes of calculating the person's qualifying service period--a period equal to half the length of the period of effective service that would have applied under subsections 11(1) to (3); 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 11(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.