Army Terms of Service (Amendment) Regulations 1996
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1996 No. 2973
DEFENCE
The Army Terms of Service (Amendment) Regulations 1996
Made 25th November 1996
Laid before Parliament 27th November 1996
Coming into force 1st January 1997
The Defence Council, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 2 of the Armed Forces Act 19661, hereby make the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Army Terms of Service (Amendment) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 1st January 1997.
Amendments to Regulations
2.—(1) The Army Terms of Service Regulations 19922shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.
(2) In regulation 3 (terms of enlistment)—
(a)
(a) in paragraph (2), for the words “regulation 4” there shall be substituted the words “regulations 4 and 4B”; and
(b)
(b) in paragraph (3), for the words “regulation 4” there shall be substituted the words “regulations 4 and 4A”.
(3) After regulation 4 there shall be inserted the following regulations—
“Local service engagement(4A) (1) A person who has attained the age of 18 years may be enlisted for local service.(2) For the purposes of these Regulations, “local service” means full-time service in the regular army where, subject to paragraph (5), the person enlisted restricts his service to a particular area in the United Kingdom (referred to in this regulation as his “area of service”).(3) Before being enlisted for local service, a person shall be required to give the recruiting officer enlisting him notice in writing specifying the area in the United Kingdom to which his service is to be restricted.(4) Subject to paragraph (7), the area of service of any person enlisted for local service shall be the area specified in the notice given in accordance with paragraph (3).(5) A person enlisted for local service may volunteer to serve outside his area of service; otherwise, he may only be required to serve outside his area of service in the United Kingdom for a total of no more than 30 days in any year or in any part of a year during which his term of service has effect.(6) A person enlisted for local service may apply by notice in writing to the competent military authority to alter his area of service, specifying in the notice the area in the United Kingdom to which his service would be restricted if his application were to be approved.(7) If the competent military authority...
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