Vietnam — Start and Finish Dates by Proclamation
Parliamentary involvement in declaring war and deploying forces overseas
Deirdre McKeown, Politics and Public Administration Section Roy Jordan, Law and Bills Digest Section
https://www.aph.gov.au/binaries/librarv/pubs/bn/pol/parliamentaryinvolvement.pdf
Declaration
A declaration under section 4 of the Defence Act relating to ‘active service’ in Vietnam was made in the Gazette, no. 65, 1962, p. 2643.
Actual date: 13th July 1962
Cessation
Proclamation under the Defence Force Protection Act 1967 that defence forces are no longer engaged in war-like operations in Vietnam, 1 1 January 1973 Gazette, no. 5, 18 January 1973, p. 2
Actual date: 11 th January 1973
