{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-marines-terms-of-service-regulations-1988/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-marines-terms-of-service-regulations-1988/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1395",
  "legislation_title": "The Royal Marines Terms of Service Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-marines-terms-of-service-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Duration of terms of enlistment",
  "text": "(1) A person may be enlisted in the Royal Marines for a term beginning with the date of his attestation in the Royal Marines and ending on a date falling not later than 22 years after the relevant date.\n(2) The term for which a person may be enlisted may be a term wholly of Royal Marines service or may be a term partly of Royal Marines service and partly of service with the reserve.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1395/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:01:00.569210+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."
}