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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defence-transfer-of-functions-order-1965/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1965/1126",
  "legislation_title": "The Defence (Transfer of Functions) Order 1965",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defence-transfer-of-functions-order-1965",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 18(1) of the Auxiliary Forces Act 1953 (under which the competent military or air force authority may during an emergency postpone a man's discharge from the Territorial Army or Royal Auxiliary Air Force) for the words “the competent military or, as the case may be, air force authority” there shall be substituted the words “the Defence Council or an officer designated by them”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1965/1126/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:56:22.644083+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."
}