National Service Act 1950
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1950 c. 30 |
National Service Act , 1950
(14 Geo. 6) CHAPTER 30
An Act to substitute twenty-four months for eighteen months as the term of whole-time service under the National Service Acts, 1948, and for purposes connected therewith.
[18th September 1950]
Be it enacted by the King'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 Extension of period of whole-time service.
(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the National Service Acts, 1948 , shall have effect and be deemed always to have had effect as if, in the National Service (Amendment) Act, 1948, the words ‘twenty-four months’ were substituted for the words ‘eighteen months’ wherever those words occur, and any notice served, order made, direction given or thing done before the passing of this Act shall have effect accordingly.
(2) Subsection (1) of this section shall not apply and shall be deemed never to have applied to any person—
(a ) in whose case the period of eighteen months referred to in paragraph 1 of the Second Schedule to the principal Act has come to an end before the first day of October, nineteen hundred and fifty (due regard being had to proviso (b ) to the said paragraph 1), or whose whole-time service falls to be treated as completed before the said first day of October by virtue of a direction under paragraph 2 of that Schedule; or
(b ) who is, on the said first day of October, conditionally registered in the register of conscientious objectors by virtue of an order made at least eighteen months before that date; or
(c ) who, apart from this Act, would fall to be treated, under section twenty-three of the principal Act, as having completed his whole-time service, or terms of service equivalent thereto, before the said first day of October; or
(d ) who, apart from this Act, would fall to be treated, under section twenty-four of the principal Act, as having completed the term of eighteen months referred to in subsection (1) of that section before the said first day of October.
(3) The Service Authorities shall, by regulations under subsection (2) of section twenty-three of the principal Act, make such further provision for the purposes mentioned in that subsection as may be necessary or expedient having regard to the provisions of this section, and section fifty-eight of...
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