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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-terms-of-service-amendment-no-2-regulations-2009/regulation-16",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/1089",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces (Terms of Service) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2009",
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  "path": "regulation/16",
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  "number": "16",
  "heading": "The Army Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 2(3) of the Army Regulations (interpretation)—\n(a) omit the definition of “the 1955 Act”;\n(b) for the definition of “competent military authority” substitute—\n““the competent military authority” means the Defence Council, the Army Board, the Director of Manning (Army) or any person authorised by him;”; and\n(c) for the definition of “recruit” substitute—\n““recruit” means a person enlisted in the regular army who has not previously been so enlisted, or whose only previous such enlistment was determined to be invalid by an approving officer under regulations made under section 328 of the Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52);”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1089/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:12:46.507423+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."
}