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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-air-force-terms-of-service-amendment-regulations-1997/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/231",
  "legislation_title": "The Royal Air Force Terms of Service (Amendment) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-air-force-terms-of-service-amendment-regulations-1997",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend the Royal Air Force Terms of Service Regulations 1985.\nThe Regulations revoke regulation 4 of the 1985 Regulations which enabled persons between the ages of 16 years and 19 years and 7 months to be enlisted for a special term of 12 months or 2 years service.\nThe Regulations bring into line the position of men and women under regulation 5 of the 1985 Regulations (which provides for engagements with the right to transfer to the reserve). The Regulations amend regulation 5 to enable those who have enlisted on a notice engagement pursuant to that regulation to be treated as if they had been enlisted on a fixed term engagement pursuant to regulation 3. The Regulations also amend Schedule 1 to update the titles of the office holders who are the competent air force authorities for the purposes of the 1985 Regulations.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/231/note",
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  "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."
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