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National Service (Armed Forces) Act 1940

As Enacted Cited authorities 1 Cited in Amendments 3 Related
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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1940 c. 22
Year1940


National Service (Armed Forces) Act, 1940

(3 & 4 Geo. 6.) CHAPTER 22.

An Act to provide that persons shall not be exempted from liability under the National Service (Armed Forces) Act, 1939, by reason of their being members of the Local Defence Volunteers.

[23rd May 1940]

B E 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:—

S-1 Amendment of 2 & 3 Geo. 6. c. 81, s. 11.

1 Amendment of 2 & 3 Geo. 6. c. 81, s. 11.

1. A person shall not be exempted from liability under the National Service (Armed Forces) Act, 1939, to be called up for service by reason only of his being a member of the Local Defence Volunteers, and accordingly paragraph (c ) of subsection (1) of section eleven of that Act shall have effect as if after the word ‘Crown’ there were therein inserted the words ‘other than the Local Defence Volunteers’.

S-2 Short title, citation and commencement.

2 Short title, citation and commencement.

(1) This Act may be cited as the National Service (Armed Forces) Act, 1940 , and this Act and the National Service (Armed Forces) Act, 1939, may be cited together as the National Service (Armed Forces) Acts, 1939 and 1940.

(2) This Act shall be deemed to have come into force on the seventeenth day of May nineteen hundred and forty.

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