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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/army-and-royal-air-force-terms-of-service-amendment-regulations-2024/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2024/1059",
  "legislation_title": "The Army and Royal Air Force (Terms of Service) (Amendment) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/army-and-royal-air-force-terms-of-service-amendment-regulations-2024",
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  "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 Army Terms of Service Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3382) (“the Army Regulations”) and the Royal Air Force Terms of Service Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/650) (“the Royal Air Force Regulations”).\nRegulation 3 updates the definition of a competent military authority in the Army Regulations.\nRegulations 4 and 7 remove the requirement in the Army Regulations and Royal Air Force Regulations that a course needs to be of a minimum duration to result in a Training Return of Service (“TRoS”) commitment requiring the person undertaking the course to consent to return to service after completion of the course. The period of time for which a person will need to return to service after completion of the course will be specified in the TRoS commitment.\nRegulations 5 and 8 ensure that gender-neutral language is used throughout the Army Regulations and Royal Air Force 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",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/1059/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:25:26.146768+00:00"
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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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