Special Duty Area Pension Order (SOR/2001-496)

Designation

1 For the purpose of the Pension Act, an area set out in column 1 of the schedule is designated as a special duty area in respect of the period commencing on the date set out in column 2 and terminating on the date set out in column 3.

Repeal

2 [Repeal]

Coming into Force

3 This Order comes into force on the day on which it is registered.

SCHEDULE(Section 1)

Item	Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
	Area	Commencement Date	Termination Date
1	Egypt, Lebanon, Israel, Syria and Jordan	January 1, 1949
2	Indo-China	August 8, 1954	March 31, 1981
3	Congo	August 11, 1960	June 30, 1964
4	Cyprus	March 15, 1964
5	India and Kashmir and the area adjacent thereto enclosed by the circumference of a circle with a radius of 100 miles having as its centre the city of Rawalpindi, Pakistan	January 18, 1949	March 31, 1981
6	New Guinea	September 1, 1962	May 31, 1963
7	Yemen	June 18, 1963	September 15, 1964
8	The area 20 miles on each side of the International Border between India and West Pakistan	September 28, 1965	March 22, 1966
9	Korea	July 5, 1950	March 31, 1981
10	Nigeria	August 1, 1968	February 27, 1970
11	Republic of Zimbabwe	January 9, 1980	March 31, 1981
12	Afghanistan and Pakistan	May 2, 1988	November 30, 1994
13	Ethiopia	May 11, 1988	September 8, 1988
14	Iran and Iraq	August 11, 1988
15	Namibia	March 12, 1989	April 30, 1990
16	Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua	December 3, 1989
17	The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the Yemen Arab Republic, the Sultanate of Oman, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and their contiguous sea areas between 12° and 32° N latitude and 32° and 75° E longitude	August 11, 1990
18	The People’s Republic of Angola	June 24, 1991	November 30, 1994
19	The People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, the Kingdom of Morocco, the Islamic Republic of Mauritania and the territory known as Western Sahara	July 21, 1991	November 30, 1994
20	The People’s Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and the Republic of Djibouti	July 18, 1991	November 30, 1994
21	The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Slovenia and the Republic of Croatia	September 9, 1991
22	The Republic of Cambodia, the Kingdom of Thailand, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic and the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam	November 17, 1991
23	The Somali Democratic Republic	August 22, 1992	November 30, 1994
24	The Republic of Mozambique	February 8, 1993
25	The Rwandese Republic	April 6, 1994
26	The Republic of Haiti	October 5, 1994
27	East Timor and the remainder of the area between 8° and 11° S latitude and 123° and 128° E longitude	October 18, 1999
28	Central African Republic	March 22, 1998	February 15, 2000
29	Democratic Republic of Congo	August 6, 1999
30	Sierra Leone	October 13, 1999
31	Ethiopia and Eritrea	August 31, 2000
32	Afghanistan and the area of the Mediterranean Sea between 15° and 36° E. longitude and between 30° and 41° N. latitude and the area of the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea that is west of 68° degrees E. longitude to Tanzania, and north of 5° S. latitude	October 1, 2001

• SOR/2002-419, s. 1
• SOR/2003-177, s. 1