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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-forfeiture-of-service-no-2-regulations-2009/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/1090",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces (Forfeiture of Service) (No. 2) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-forfeiture-of-service-no-2-regulations-2009",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations provide for the forfeiture of a period of service by a member of the regular forces who has made a written confession of desertion or has been convicted of desertion.\nWhere the deserter has made a confession, regulation 3 enables his commanding officer to make a determination that a trial may be dispensed with. In certain circumstances the commanding officer may not make such a determination without the consent of the Director of Service Prosecutions.\nRegulation 4 provides for the forfeiture of a period of desertion where the deserter has been convicted of the offence or his commanding officer has made a determination under regulation 3. The effect of the forfeiture is that the period for which the deserter is liable to serve is extended by the period forfeited.\nRegulation 5 enables the Defence Council to restore some or all of a period of service forfeited under regulation 4.\nRegulation 7 revokes the Armed Forces (Forfeiture of Service) Regulations 2009, which are replaced by these Regulations.\nThe Schedule makes transitional provision.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1090/note",
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  "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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