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Paragraph 1 Interpretation of Part 7

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

In this Part—

  • “the 1996 Act” (“Deddf 1996”) means the Reserve Forces Act 1996f1;

  • “forces period” (“cyfnod yn y lluoedd”) means the period during which a person undertakes relevant service in the reserve forces;

  • “former authority” (“cyn awdurdod”), in relation to a reservist, means the authority by which the reservist was employed immediately before the reservist’s forces period began;

  • “qualifying injury” (“anaf cymhwysol”) means an injury, received by a person in the performance of the person’s duties as a firefighter, which is not wholly or mainly due to the person’s own serious and culpable negligence or misconduct;

  • “relevant service in the reserve forces” (“gwasanaeth perthnasol yn y lluoedd wrth gefn”) means service in the forces specified in section 1(2) of the 1996 Act—

    1. (a)

      in pursuance of a training obligation under Part 3 of that Act, or

    2. (b)

      by virtue of a call out for permanent service or a recall under the Reserve Forces Act 1980f2 or Part 7 of the 1996 Act; and

  • “reservist” (“person wrth gefn”) means a person who, immediately before a forces period, was a firefighter.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

1996 c. 14.

f2

1980 c. 9.