{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-terms-of-service-amendment-regulations-2014/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-terms-of-service-amendment-regulations-2014/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/3068",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces (Terms of Service) (Amendment) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-terms-of-service-amendment-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "The Army Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 5 of the Army Regulations—\n(a) in paragraph (3)(b) substitute “60” for “55”;\n(b) for paragraph (4) substitute—\n“(4) A person who is selected for further service under paragraph (3)—\n(a) must be notified in writing by the competent military authority, and\n(b) may, at any time before that person has completed 10 years’ service, exercise the option to undertake such further service.”;\n(c) for paragraph (5) substitute—\n“(5) A person who has enlisted for a term of 24 years’ service under paragraph (2) or who has exercised an option to undertake further service under paragraph (4) so as to serve for such a term may, after that person has completed 6 years’ service, be selected for further service in the regular army for an additional term of the following duration—\n(a) 6 years from the date that person’s service would otherwise end, or\n(b) if that person will attain the age of 60 years before the expiry of the period referred to in sub-paragraph (a), until the date on which that person reaches that age.”;\n(d) in paragraph (6) for the words after “before he has” substitute—\n“reached his end of engagement date, exercise the option to undertake such further service.”\n(e) in paragraph (7)(a) substitute “60” for “55”;\n(f) in paragraph (9) for the words after “and he may” substitute—\n“at any time before he has reached his end of engagement date exercise the option to undertake such further service.”;\n(g) after paragraph (11) insert—\n“(12) The competent military authority may by notice in writing withdraw an offer to undertake further service made under paragraph (4), (6) or (9) at any time before that offer is accepted.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/3068/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:56:02.688767+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."
}