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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-and-auxiliary-forces-protection-of-civil-interests-act-1951/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-and-auxiliary-forces-protection-of-civil-interests-act-1951/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/14-15/65",
  "legislation_title": "Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-and-auxiliary-forces-protection-of-civil-interests-act-1951",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to provide for protecting the interests of persons called up or volunteering for certain naval, military or air force service, or doing work or training under the National Service Act 1948, by virtue of being conditionally registered under that Act as conscientious objectors, and of other persons consequentially affected, in respect of civil rights and liabilities of theirs.\n[1st August 1951]",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act extended in part to N.I. by S.I. 1979/291 and S.I. 1989/2413 (N.I. 22), art. 11 (which revokes the 1979 S.I.), and by the enactments referred to in the Chronological Table of Statutes for Northern Ireland"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act extended in part to N.I. (with modifications) by the enactments referred to in the Chronological Table of Statutes for Northern Ireland to 31.12.1986 and by S.I.1989/2413 (N.I.22), art. 11"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act extended by Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), s. 76, Sch. 4 para. 93(1)(xi) and Reserve Forces Act 1980 (c. 9), s. 146Act amended (women's services) by Armed Forces Act 1981 (c. 55), Sch. 3 Pt. I para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act extended by Civil Aviation Act 1982 (c. 16, SIF 9), s. 40, Sch. 2 para. 4; Gas Act 1986 (c. 44, SIF 44:2), s. 67(1)(3), Sch. 7 para. 2(1)(viii), Sch. 8 para. 33; Merchant Shipping Act 1988 (c. 12, SIF 111), s. 29(4)(b); and Electricity Act 1989 (c. 29, SIF 44:1), s. 112(1), Sch. 16 para. 1(1)(viii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act extended (1.7.1992) by Army Act 1992 (c. 39), ss. 2(4), 5Act amended (1.3.1996) by 1995 c. 45, s. 16(1), Sch. 4 para. 2(1)(vi); S.I. 1996/218, art. 2Act extended (1.1.1996) by 1995 c. 21, ss. 83(4)(b), 316(2) (with s. 312(1))Act modified (1.4.2001) by 2000 c. 38, s. 37, Sch. 5 para. 1(2)(d) (with s. 106); S.I. 2001/869, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at Royal Assent"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/14-15/65/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:17:58.490128+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."
}