{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-force-act-1955-part-1-regulations-2007/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-force-act-1955-part-1-regulations-2007/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/651",
  "legislation_title": "The Air Force Act 1955 (Part 1) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-force-act-1955-part-1-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Restoration of forfeited services",
  "text": "(1) Where an airman has forfeited the whole or any part of his service an order authorising the restoration of service so forfeited may be made with his consent in writing, either—\n(a) by his commanding officer—\n(i) if he is promoted to the rank of sergeant; or\n(ii) if he has served for a continuous period of eighteen months during which he has not at any time during the said period been undergoing imprisonment, corrective training, detention of any description or field punishment nor forfeited pay under any provision of the 1955 Act nor incurred any adverse entry in his service conduct record and no part of such period includes a term of suspended sentence of imprisonment or detention; provided that service shall be regarded as continuous notwithstanding that it has been broken by such a period or periods; or\n(b) by the Air Secretary, in consideration of good service or on other grounds justifying the restoration of services forfeited.\n(2) The consent of an airman to the restoration of his service shall be irrevocable and shall be entered in his record of service.\n(3) The service to be restored to an airman under this regulation shall be the whole period of service forfeited less the period as respects which he was convicted as being, or confessed to have been, a deserter; provided that where service has been forfeited on more than one occasion by reason of desertion, the service to be restored shall be that forfeited on the last occasion less the period as respects which he was then convicted of being, or confessed to have been, a deserter.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/651/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:59:14.159559+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}