None of the district or fashion tartans registered in the SRT and covering the whole of Australia have been officially adopted as a national symbol. However, the Australian National tartan was so named with the written permission of the then National Symbols Officer of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, and the Army Dress Manual of the Australian Army mandates the use of one of the other countrywide district tartans, namely The Australia tartan, in certain circumstances. (Effective date 20 December 2019)
