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Reserve Forces Act 1980

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EnlistmentU.K.

94 Procedure for enlistment.U.K.

(1)Where a man enlists in the Territorial Army or the Royal Auxiliary Air Force—

(a)he shall be enlisted by such persons and in such manner and subject to such regulations as may be prescribed; and

(b)the provisions of Schedule 3 to this Act shall apply.

(2)A recruit may be attested by a lord-lieutenant or deputy lieutenant of any county or, in Scotland, of any area, or—

(a)in the case of a recruit to the Territorial Army, by an officer of the regular military forces or of the Territorial Army, or

(b)in the case of a recruit to the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, by an officer of the regular air force or of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force,

and the provisions of Schedule 3, as applied to the Territorial Army or the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, as the case may be, shall be construed as if references in those provisions to a recruiting officer included references to any such lord-lieutenant, deputy lieutenant or officer.

(3)The attestation paper to be used for the purpose of attesting recruits to the Territorial Army shall be in such form as may be prescribed.

95 Conditions of enlistment.U.K.

(1)British subjects and British protected persons may enlist or re-engage as men of the Territorial Army or the Royal Auxiliary Air Force in any country or territory outside the United Kingdom as well as in the United Kingdom.

(2)Every man enlisted under this Part of this Act shall—

(a)if enlisted into the Territorial Army be enlisted for service in such corps and be posted to such unit in that corps as he may select; or

(b)if enlisted into the Royal Auxiliary Air Force be enlisted for service in such unit as he may select.

96 Term and area of service.U.K.

(1)Every man enlisted under this Part of this Act shall be enlisted to serve for such a period as may be prescribed, not exceeding 4 years, reckoned from the date of his attestation.

(2)A man of the Territorial Army or the Royal Auxiliary Air Force shall, until duly discharged in the prescribed manner, remain subject to this Part as a man of that reserve or that force, as the case may be.

(3)Officers and men of the Territorial Army and of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force are liable to serve in any part of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and, subject to section 6 above and in so far as is provided in this Part, elsewhere.

97 Re-engagement for service.U.K.

A man enlisted under this Part of this Act in the Territorial Army or in the Royal Auxiliary Air Force—

(a)may be re-engaged within the period of 12 months expiring with the end of his current term of service for such a period as may be prescribed, not exceeding 4 years from the end of that term, and

(b)on that re-engagement shall make the prescribed declaration before a justice of the peace or an officer,

and so from time to time.

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