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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-air-force-terms-of-service-regulations-2007/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/650",
  "legislation_title": "The Royal Air Force Terms of Service Regulations 2007",
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  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the Air Force Act 1955;\n“air force service” means service in the regular air force;\n“to determine service” means to be discharged, on application, from air force service with no reserve liability;\n“recruit” means a recruit enlisted in the regular air force who has not previously so enlisted;\n“the relevant date” means, in relation to a person, the date of his attestation except in relation to—\n(a) a man who enlisted before 1st April 2007, and\n(b) a woman who enlisted on or after 1st April 1975 and before 1st April 2007,\nand on a date before their 18th birthday in which excepted cases “the relevant date” means the date of that person’s 18th birthday.\n(2) Expressions used in these Regulations have, unless the contrary intention appears, the meaning which they bear in the Act.",
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1955 c.19."
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