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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-air-force-terms-of-service-regulations-2007/regulation-12",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/650",
  "legislation_title": "The Royal Air Force Terms of Service Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-air-force-terms-of-service-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Restrictions on the exercise of rights conferred by regulations 4, 5, 6, 7, 15(2) and 16(2)",
  "text": "(1) A person who, in consideration of—\n(a) being permitted to undergo a course of instruction of a duration of not less than 3 weeks, or\n(b) receiving any other benefit or advantage,\nconsents in writing to be restricted in the exercise of any right conferred by regulation 4, 5, 6, 7, 15(2) or 16(2) shall not exercise such rights before the expiration of the appropriate period which shall be specified in such consent and shall begin with the date on which he completes such course of instruction or such other date as is mentioned in such consent.\n(2) “The appropriate period” shall be—\n(a) in relation to permission to undergo a course of instruction, the duration of which is not more than 3 months, a period of not more than 3 years,\n(b) in relation to permission to undergo a course of instruction of longer duration, a period of not more than 5 years,\n(c) in relation to the receipt of any other benefit or advantage, a period of not more than 6 years.\n(3) The rights conferred by regulations 4, 5, 6, 7, 15(2) and 16(2) shall not be exercisable by a person in air force service enlisted on or after the 1st day of January 1962 for 22 years who has given an undertaking pursuant to any regulations made under Part I of the Act not to determine his air force service before the expiration of the period specified in such undertaking.\n(4) A person who has given his consent under this regulation may, if the competent air force authority approve, revoke that consent.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "affecting": "uksi/2009/1089",
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    },
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      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/831",
      "affecting_title": "The Armed Forces (Terms of Service) (Amendment) Regulations 2009"
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      "affecting": "uksi/2014/3068",
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    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2024/1059",
      "affecting_title": "The Army and Royal Air Force (Terms of Service) (Amendment) Regulations 2024"
    },
    {
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    {
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      "affecting_title": "The Army and Royal Air Force (Terms of Service) (Amendment) Regulations 2024"
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/650/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:59:15.047031+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."
}