{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-navy-terms-of-service-ratings-amendment-regulations-2000/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1771",
  "legislation_title": "The Royal Navy Terms of Service (Ratings) (Amendment) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-navy-terms-of-service-ratings-amendment-regulations-2000",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Royal Navy Terms of Service (Ratings) Regulations 1982 (“the 1982 Regulations”).\nRegulation 2(2) and (3) amends regulations 3A(2), 4, 5(1) and 8 of the 1982 Regulations so as to reduce from 18 to 12 months the notice period required to be given by a person exercising his right under those provisions to be discharged or transferred to the reserve.\nRegulation 2(4) substitutes a new regulation 7 into the 1982 Regulations which provides for the right of new recruits to determine their service. Under the new regulation, all recruits are entitled to determine service on the giving of 14 days' notice. Such notice may be given within the period starting after the recruit has completed 28 days' service and before he has completed 6 months' service. One of the effects of this change is that there are now no longer any circumstances in which a recruit is required to purchase his discharge.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1771/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:07:28.119365+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."
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