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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-discharge-and-transfer-to-the-reserve-forces-amendment-regulations-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/218",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces (Discharge and Transfer to the Reserve Forces) (Amendment) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-discharge-and-transfer-to-the-reserve-forces-amendment-regulations-2025",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations are made under the Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52) and amend the Armed Forces (Discharge and Transfer to the Reserve Forces) (No. 2) Regulations 2009 (“the 2009 Regulations”) (S.I. 2009/1091).\nThe Regulations remove the requirement that a certificate of discharge must contain the place of enlistment and a signed assessment by an officer as to the discharged person’s conduct and character. The Regulations further update the title of Head of Personnel Policy (Army) and ensure gender-neutral language is used throughout the 2009 Regulations.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/218/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:19:56.285379+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."
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