AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

RETURNED SERVICEMEN’S BADGES ORDINANCE 1960.

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 10 of 1960

	This Ordinance prescribes that a person shall not wear a badge issued by the Returned Sailors’, Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Imperial League of Australia unless he is a person to whom the badge was issued and he is entitled under the Rules of the League to wear it.

	The Ordinance has been prepared following representations made by the A.C.T. Branch of the League and it is in line with similar legislation in force in Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia.

	The purpose of the legislation is to prevent any person from gaining, by wearing an R.S.L. badge when not entitled to do so consideration or sympathy extended to exservicemen which is generally accorded to persons wearing this badge.