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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-terms-of-service-amendment-regulations-2014/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/3068",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces (Terms of Service) (Amendment) Regulations 2014",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThese Regulations are made under the Armed Forces Act 2006 (c.52) and amend the terms of service regulations applicable to non-commissioned personnel in the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Army and Royal Air Force. The amendments are being made to bring a degree of harmonisation to the terms of service used across the armed forces and also to take account of changes to pension qualification periods resulting from the Public Service Pensions Act 2013 (c.25).\nRegulation 1 provides that the Regulations come into force on 1st April 2015.\nRegulation 2 sets out general matters of interpretation.\nRegulations 3 to 5 make provision for the amendments to be made the Royal Navy Terms of Service (Ratings) Regulations 2006.\nRegulations 6 to 8 make provision for the amendments to be made to the Royal Marines Terms of Service Regulations 2006.\nRegulations 9 to 11 make provision for the amendments to be made to the Army Terms of Service Regulations 2007.\nRegulations 12 to 23 make provision for the amendments to be made to the Royal Air Force Terms of Service Regulations 2007.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2006/2918."
    },
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      "text": "S.I. 2006/2917."
    },
    {
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      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2007/3382."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 2007/650."
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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