Royal Air Force Terms of Service (Amendment) Regulations 1997
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1997 No. 231
DEFENCE
The Royal Air Force Terms of Service (Amendment) Regulations 1997
Made 5th February 1997
Laid before Parliament 6th February 1997
Coming into force 1st March 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, commencement and revocation
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Royal Air Force Terms of Service (Amendment) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st March 1997.
(2) The Royal Air Force Terms of Service (Amendment) Regulations 19862shall be revoked.
Amendments to Regulations
2.—(1) The Royal Air Force Terms of Service Regulations 19853shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.
(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation), after the definition of “the Act”there shall be inserted the following definition —
““air force service” means service in the regular air force;”
(3) In regulation 3 (duration of terms of enlistment) —
(a)
(a) in paragraph (2), there shall be omitted the words “, or a term as provided for in Regulation 4”; and
(b)
(b) in paragraph (3), there shall be omitted the words “Subject to Regulation 4,”.
(4) Regulation 4 (special terms of engagement) shall be omitted.
(5) In regulation 5 (engagement with right to transfer to the reserve on notice) —
(a)
(a) in paragraph (1), for the word “man”there shall be substituted the word “person”;
(b)
(b) paragraph (2) shall be omitted; and
(c)
(c) after paragraph (3), there shall be inserted the following paragraph —
“4 A person enlisted pursuant to this regulation may apply by notice in writing to his commanding officer to be treated as if he had been enlisted pursuant to regulation 3 for a term equal in length to the term for which he was enlisted under this regulation; and, if the competent air force authority approves his application, he shall be so treated from the date on which his application is approved.”
(6) In Schedule 1 (competent air force authorities) —
(a)
(a) for the entry relating to regulation 4 there shall be substituted the following entry —
“Regulation 5 |
For the purpose of approving an application to convert from a Notice to a fixed term engagement |
Director of Personnel Management (Airmen) and Controller of Reserve Forces (RAFRAF)”; |
(b)
(b) for the words “Director of Personnel Management...
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