Reserve Forces Act 1980

153 Provisions as to Statutory Instruments Act 1946 c. 36

For the purposes of the Statutory Instruments Act 1946 the provisions of this Act—

(a) relating to the Army Reserve, in sections 4, 18, 19 and 23, in Part IV and in paragraphs 16 and 17 of Schedule 8.

(b) relating to the Air Force Reserve, in sections 8, 20, 21 and 23, in Part IV and in paragraphs 16 and 17 of Schedule 8,

(c) relating to the Territorial Army and the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, as the case may be, in sections 5, 9, 22, 40 to 43, in Part V, in section 152(1), and in paragraph 18 of Schedule 8,

(d) relating to territorial, auxiliary and volunteer reserve associations, in sections 121 to 129,

shall be deemed to be provisions of an Act passed before the commencement of that Act of 1946, and any reference in regulations under section 8(1) of that [1946 c. 36.] Act of 1946 to—

(i) any provision of the [45 & 46. Vict. c. 48.] Reserve Forces Act 1882,

(ii) any provision of that Act of 1882 as applied to the Air Force Reserve by the [SRO 1924/1213.] Air Force Reserve Order 1924,

(iii) any provision of the [7 Edw. 7 c. 9.] Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907,

shall, without prejudice to any power to vary the regulations under that Act of 1946, be construed as a reference to the corresponding provision of this Act.