Pursuant to section 15(2) of the Burial and Cremation Act 1964, the Minister of Veterans’ Affairs gives the following notice.
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1. Title and commencement (1) This notice is to be cited as the Burial and Cremation Act (Operational Service) Notice 2010.
(2) This notice comes into force on 4 March 2010.
2. Operational service The following deployments are declared to be operational service for the purposes of section 15 of the Burial and Cremation Act 1964:
1. Berlin Airlift (1 September 1948 to 11 August 1949)
2. Suez Crisis (29 October to 5 November 1956)
3. Detachments of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation (UNTSO):
- United Nations Emergency Force (1956 to 1957)
- Second United Nations Emergency Force (October 1973 to 1979)
- United Nations Disengagement Observer Force
(1974 to current)
- United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (1978 to current)
- United Nations Iran-Iraq Military Observer Group (July 1988 to February 1991)
4. Operation Scorpion, Special Logistic Aid Thailand programme, Operation Crown and Thailand Feeder
Road project (1962 to 1971)
5. United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (May 1964 to June 1967)
6. Multinational Force and Observers (25 April 1982 to current)
7. Operation Armilla (21 June 1982 to 20 September 1983)
8. United Nations Mine Clearing Training Team in Pakistan and Afghanistan (1 April 1989 to 31 December 1991)
9. United Nations Transition Assistance Group in Namibia (April 1989 to March 1990)
10. Bougainville - Operation Big Talk (29 July to 5 August 1990), South Pacific Peacekeeping Force (September to October 1994), Operation Coracle (July 1997), the Truce Monitoring Group (October 1997 to April 1998), and the Peace Monitoring Group (May 1998 to June 2003)
11. United Nations Special Commission Iraq (June 1991
to December 1999), and United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (November 2002 to March 2003)
12. Cambodia - United Nations Advance Mission in Cambodia (October 1991 to March 1992), United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (February 1992 to September 1993), United Nations Military Liaison Team in Cambodia (November 1993 to May 1994), and the Cambodian Mine Action Centre and Mine Clearance Training Unit (December 1991 to April 2005)
13. United Nations Operations in Mozambique and Mozambique Accelerated Demining Programme (December 1992 to 30 June 2005)
14. United Nations Operations in Somalia (January 1993 to March 1995)
15. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Rwanda mission (July to September 1994)
16. United Nations Mission in Haiti (19 September 1994 to 31 March 1995)
17. Multinational Interception Force (August 1995 to November 1999)
18. Laos National Unexploded Ordnance Programme (1 July 1997 to 2003)
19. Coalition Joint Task Force - Kuwait (1998 to 2000)
20. Tsunami - Papua New Guinea (July 1998)
21. United Nations Command Military Armistice Commission - Korea (1998 to current)
22. Kosovo - KFOR, KOSMED and KOSAID (1999), United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (1999 to current)
23. Solomon Islands (2000-2002)
24. Operation Sumatra Assist (27 December 2004 to
26 December 2005)
25. United Nations Mission in Sudan (17 September 2005 to current day)
26. United Nations Mine Action Coordination Centre in Southern Lebanon (11 February 2007 to 7 February 2008)
4. Entitlements This will confer entitlement for veterans of these deployments, and their spouses, to be buried in the Services section of a public cemetery, and confers entitlement to a subsidised ex-Services memorial to mark the grave.
Dated at Wellington this 4th day of March 2010.
HON JUDITH COLLINS, Minister of Veterans’ Affairs.