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The Armed Forces Act 2021 (Commencement No. 5) Regulations 2023

S.I. 2023/158 · Made 15 February 2023

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Defence

Made 15th February 2023

The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 24(1) of the Armed Forces Act 2021f1.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2021 c. 35.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and interpretation
  2. 2Extent
  3. 3Commencement of sections 15 and 16 of, and Schedule 6 to, the Act
  4. 4Commencement of section 11 of the Act
  5. Signature
  6. Explanatory note

1Citation and interpretation

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Armed Forces Act 2021 (Commencement No. 5) Regulations 2023.

(2)

In these Regulations, “the Act” means the Armed Forces Act 2021.

2Extent

(1)

These Regulations extend to England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and the British Overseas Territories (except Gibraltar), subject to paragraph (2).

(2)

Regulation 3, in so far as it relates to paragraphs (4) to (6) of Schedule 6 to the Act, has the same extent as the provisions to which those paragraphs relate.

3Commencement of sections 15 and 16 of, and Schedule 6 to, the Act

Sections 15 (driving disqualification) and 16 (deprivation and driving disqualification orders: minor and consequential amendments) of, and Schedule 6 to, the Act come into force on 1st April 2023, in so far as they are not already in force.

4Commencement of section 11 of the Act

Section 11 of the Act (Service police: complaints, misconduct etc) comes into force on 20th February 2023, for the purposes only of making regulations under sections 340P and 340R of the Armed Forces Act 2006f1.

Signature

Alex Chalk

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Ministry of Defence

15th February 2023

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations bring into force sections 15 and 16 of, and Schedule 6 to, the Armed Forces Act 2021 (c. 35) (“the Act”) on 1 April 2023, in so far as they are not already in force. They also bring into force section 11 of the Act on 20 February 2023 to enable regulations to be made under sections 340P and 340R of the Armed Forces Act 2006.

Four earlier Commencement Regulations, (S.I. 2022/471 (C. 17)), (S.I. 2022/625 (C. 33)), (S.I. 2022/1095 (C. 87)) and (S.I. 2022/1161 (C. 89)), were made before the date of these Regulations.