Section 1 Change of name of Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve.

United Kingdom

(1)

The Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve shall, instead of being so known, be known as the Territorial Army.

(2)

Accordingly—

(a)

in subsection (1) of section 5 of the M1Reserve Forces Act 1980 (under which Her Majesty may maintain the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve), for the words from “maintain” onwards there shall be substituted the words “maintain the Territorial Army”, and in subsection (1) of section 156 of that Act (interpretation) the definition of “Territorial Army” shall be omitted; and

(b)

a reference to the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve in any other Act or in any instrument shall be construed, so far as may be necessary in consequence of the change of name made by subsection (1) above, as a reference to the Territorial Army.

C1(3)

In sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 5 of Schedule 8 to the said Act of 1980 (which, among other things, provides that references to the Territorial Army shall continue to be construed as references to the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve) the words “Territorial Army and the”, “respectively”, “the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve and” and “army or”shall be omitted.

Annotations

Marginal citations

M1: 1980 c. 9.

Modifications

C1: The text of ss. 1(3), 2(1)–(3) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1: Act repealed (1.4.1997) by 1996 c. 14, s. 131(2), Sch. 11 (with s. 72(5)); S.I. 1997/305, art. 2