Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated ActsWhere:
(a) an enlisted member who is a member of the Permanent Navy, the Regular Army or the Permanent Air Force applies to the Chief of the Defence Force to be discharged from that arm of the Defence Force; and
(b) he satisfies the Chief of the Defence Force that he intends, if he is so discharged, to become a candidate for election as a member of a House of the Parliament of Australia or of a State or of the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory or a prescribed legislative or advisory body for another Territory at an election specified by him in the application;
the Chief of the Defence Force may discharge him accordingly.