Article 2 General Interpretation
In this Order—
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“the 1996 Act” means the Reserve Forces Act 1996;
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“the Eastern Wessex Association” means the territorial, auxiliary and volunteer reserve association that, immediately before the coming into force of this Order, was established for the area that comprised—
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the counties of Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, and Oxfordshire, and
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the non-metropolitan districts of Bournemouth, Bracknell Forest, Milton Keynes, Poole, Portsmouth, Reading, Slough, Southampton, West Berkshire, Windsor and Maidenhead, and Wokingham, and
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the Channel Islands;
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“the South East Association” means the territorial, auxiliary and volunteer reserve association that is established for the area that, immediately before the coming into force of this Order, comprised—
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the counties of East Sussex, Kent, Surrey, and West Sussex, and
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the non-metropolitan districts of Brighton and Hove, and the Medway Towns;
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“the Wessex Association” means the territorial, auxiliary and volunteer reserve association that is established for the area that, immediately before the coming into force of this Order, comprised—
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the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire, and
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the non-metropolitan districts of Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, the Isles of Scilly, North Somerset, Plymouth, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, and Torbay.
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Any reference in this Order to a local government or administrative area is to that area as it was immediately before the coming into force of this Order.