Reserve Forces Act 1982
| Year | 1982 |
Reserve ForcesAct 1982
1982 CHAPTER 14
An Act to change the name of the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve and to amend the Reserve Forces Act 1980.
[7th April 1982]
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Change of name of Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve.
(1) The Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve shall, instead of being so known, be known as the Territorial Army.
(2) Accordingly—
(a ) in subsection (1) of section 5 of the Reserve Forces Act 1980 (under which Her Majesty may maintain the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve), for the words from ‘maintain’ onwards there shall be substituted the words ‘maintain the Territorial Army’, and in subsection (1) of section 156 of that Act (interpretation) the definition of ‘Territorial Army’ shall be omitted; and
(b ) a reference to the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve in any other Act or in any instrument shall be construed, so far as may be necessary in consequence of the change of name made by subsection (1) above, as a reference to the Territorial Army.
(3) In sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 5 of Schedule 8 to the said Act of 1980 (which, among other things, provides that references to the Territorial Army shall continue to be construed as references to the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve) the words ‘Territorial Army and the’, ‘respectively’, ‘the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve and’ and ‘army or’ shall be omitted.
2 Miscellaneous amendments of the Reserve Forces Act 1980.
(1) Paragraph (b of section 98 of the Reserve Forces Act 1980 may be dispensed with), for the words ‘all or any’ there shall be substituted the words ‘one or both’.
(2) In subsection (1) of section 150 of the said Act of 1980 (which provides that the Secretary of State may make regulations with respect to the matters falling to be prescribed under the provisions of that Act listed in that subsection), after paragraph (d ) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:—
‘(dd ) section 36(1),’.
(3) Section 153 of the said Act of 1980 (which makes provision with respect to provisions of that Act deriving from Acts passed before the commencement of...
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