Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951

64 Interpretation

(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meaning hereby assigned to them respectively, that is to say.—

• " compulsory national service " means service undertaken by virtue of an enlistment notice or a training notice served under Part I of the National Service Act, 1948, or work or training in pursuance of an order made or direction given under the said Part I as respects a conditionally registered conscientious objector;

• " local authority " and " local Act scheme " have the same meanings as in the Local Government Superannuation Act, 1937, or, as respects Scotland, the Local Government Superannuation (Scotland) Act, 1937 ;

• " relevant service " means service after the fifteenth day of July, nineteen hundred and fifty, of a description specified in the First Schedule to this Act;

• " Rent Restrictions Acts " means the Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restrictions) Acts, 1920 to 1925; and references to the Rent Acts of 1920, 1933, 1939 and 1949 are respectively to the Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restrictions) Act, 1920, to the Rent and Mortgage Interest Restrictions (Amendment) Act, 1933, to the Rent and Mortgage Interest Restrictions Act, 1939, and to the Landlord and Tenant (Rent Control) Act, 1949;

• " service " means the discharge of naval, military or air force duties, and includes training for the discharge of such duties, and includes also work or training in pursuance of an order made or direction given under Part I of the National Service Act, 1948, as respects a conditionally registered conscientious objector;

• " service man " means a man who performs a period of relevant service;

• " short period of training " means a period of relevant service of a description specified in paragraph 2 of the First Schedule to this Act to which a maximum period of fifteen days is attached, of a description specified in paragraph 6 thereof, or of a description specified in paragraph 7 thereof performed under ah obligation or voluntary arrangements under which its continuous duration is limited to less than three months.

(2) In this Act references to a service man include references to a woman who performs a period of relevant service, references to an officer of any reserve or force include references to a woman who is a member of that reserve or force as an officer and references to a man of any reserve or force include references to a woman who is a member of that reserve or force otherwise than as an officer, and any reference to a service man's wife includes a reference to the husband of a woman who performs a period of relevant service.

(3) If any Order in Council is made under section fourteen of the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Training) Act, 1951, directing that Part I of that Act shall apply in relation to all or any of the years nineteen hundred and fifty-two, nineteen hundred and fifty-three and nineteen hundred and fifty-four, any reference in this Act to section one of that Act shall include a reference to that section as extended by the Order.

(4) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, references to any enactment shall be construed as references to that enactment as amended by or under any other enactment.