Regulation 6 Exemption certificatesI1

England, Wales and Scotland

(1)

The Secretary of State for Defence may, in the interests of national security, by a certificate in writing exempt—

(a)

any of the home forces, any visiting force or any headquarters from any requirement imposed by regulation 4 of these Regulations; or

(b)

any member of the home forces, any member of a visiting force or any member of a headquarters from the requirement imposed by regulation 5 of these Regulations;

and any exemption such as is specified in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of this paragraph may be granted subject to conditions and to a limit of time and may be revoked by the said Secretary of State by a further certificate in writing at any time.

(2)

In this regulation—

(a)

“the home forces” has the same meaning as in section 12(1) of the Visiting Forces Act 1952^f1;

(b)

“headquarters” has the same meaning as in article 3(2) of the Visiting Forces and International Headquarters (Application of Law) Order 1965^f2;

(c)

“member of a headquarters” has the same meaning as in paragraph 1(1) of the Schedule to the International Headquarters and Defence Organisations Act 1964^f3; and

(d)

“visiting force” has the same meaning as it does for the purposes of any provision of Part I of the Visiting Forces Act 1952.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Reg. 6 in force at 1.1.1993, see reg. 1

Footnotes

f1: 1952 c. 67.
f2: S.I. 1965/1536, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.
f3: 1964 c. 5.