Air Force Act 1955

7 Re-engagement

(1) Where a person in air-force service has completed four years' service from the date of his attestation or (if he enlisted before attaining the minimum age for man's service) the date of his attaining the age of eighteen years, and makes an application in that behalf to the competent air-force authority, he may, with the consent of that authority and on making such a declaration before his commanding officer as may be prescribed, be re-engaged—

(a) for a further period of air-force service ending twenty-two years after the said date,

(b) for any shorter period being either a period of air-force service or a period comprising a term of air-force service and a term of service in the reserve; or

(c) for a further period of air-force service ending on the date on which he attains the age of fifty-five years or any lower age.

(2) In relation to a person who, having been re-engaged, is transferred to the reserve under subsection (1) of the last foregoing section, that subsection shall have effect as if for the reference therein to the term for which he enlisted there were substituted a reference to the term for which he was re-engaged or any shorter term.

(3) In reckoning for the purposes of subsection (1) of this section the period of service completed by any person since the date mentioned in that subsection there shall be included any period so served by him in the reserve and, if before his attestation he has at any time served in air-force service as an officer or airman of the regular air force or the reserve, or the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, any period so served by him before his attestation other than—

(a) any period served while undergoing training as an officer or airman of the reserve or the Royal Auxiliary Air Force,

(b) any period served before attaining the age of eighteen years in service in the regular air force as an apprentice or a boy entrant.