Reserve Forces Act 1982

1 Change of name of Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve.

(1) The Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve shall, instead of being so known, be known as the Territorial Army.

(2) Accordingly—

(a) in subsection (1) of section 5 of the [1980 c. 9.] Reserve Forces Act 1980 (under which Her Majesty may maintain the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve), for the words from " maintain " onwards there shall be substituted the words " maintain the Territorial Army " , and in subsection (1) of section 156 of that Act (interpretation) the definition of " Territorial Army " shall be omitted; and

(b) a reference to the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve in any other Act or in any instrument shall be construed, so far as may be necessary in consequence of the change of name made by subsection (1) above, as a reference to the Territorial Army.

(3) In sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 5 of Schedule 8 to the said Act of 1980 (which, among other things, provides that references to the Territorial Army shall continue to be construed as references to the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve) the words " Territorial Army and the ", " respectively ", " the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve and " and " army or " shall be omitted.