National Service (Amendment) Act 1948
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1948 c. 6 |
| Year | 1948 |
National Service (Amendment) Act, 1948
(12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6.) CHAPTER 6
An Act to substitute eighteen months for twelve months as the term of whole-time service under the National Service Act, 1948, and five and a half years for seven years as the aggregate of the terms of whole-time and part-time service thereunder, and to make certain other amendments in that Act.
[16th December 1948]
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 Substitution of eighteen months as term of whole-time service.
(1) The National Service Act, 1948 (in this Act referred to as ‘the principal Act’) shall have effect with the substitution of a period of eighteen months for the period of twelve months specified in subsection (2) of section one of that Act as the term of whole-time service for which a person is to be liable to be called up under Part I of that Act.
(2) In accordance with the preceding subsection, the words ‘eighteen months’ shall be substituted for the words ‘twelve months’ in the said subsection (2), in the proviso to that subsection (which empowers His Majesty in Council to appoint a shorter period as the term of whole-time service) and in all other relevant provisions of the principal Act, that is to say—
paragraph (b ) of subsection (6) of section seventeen;
subsection (1) of section twenty-four, in both places where the words occur;
paragraph (b ) of subsection (1) of section forty; and
paragraph 1 of the Second Schedule, in both places where the words occur.
(3) So long as a period shorter than eighteen months is appointed by Order in Council under the proviso to subsection (2) of section one of the principal Act as the term of whole-time service, references to eighteen months in the provisions of the principal Act mentioned in the last preceding subsection as thereby amended shall be construed as references to that shorter period.
This subsection shall be in substitution for subsection (2) of section thirty-four of the principal Act (which makes corresponding provision as regards the period of twelve months therein mentioned) and that subsection is accordingly hereby repealed.
2 Substitution of five...
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