The Army Act 1955 (Part 1) (Regular Army) Regulations 1992 (Amendment) Regulations 2007

Statutory Instruments

2007 No. 3383

DEFENCE

The Army Act 1955 (Part 1) (Regular Army) Regulations 1992 (Amendment) Regulations 2007

Made

29th November 2007

Laid before Parliament

3rd December 2007

Coming into force

1st January 2008

The Defence Council make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by sections 2, 22 and 23 of the Army Act 1955(1).

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Army Act 1955 (Part 1) (Regular Army) Regulations 1992 (Amendment) Regulations 2007 and shall come into force on 1st January 2008.

Amendment to the principal Regulations

2.—(1) The Army Act 1955 (Part 1) (Regular Army) Regulations 1992(2) (“the principal Regulations”) shall be amended as follows.

(2) For the forms set out in Schedule 2 (notice to be given under section 2(1) of the Army Act 1955 to a person offering to enlist in the regular army), substitute the form in the Schedule to these Regulations.

On behalf of the Defence Council

Derek Twigg

Richard Dannatt

Members of the Defence Council

Members of the Defence Council

29th November 2007

Regulation 2(2)

SCHEDULE 1 Prescribed form to be substituted in Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations

ARMY NOTICE PAPER

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

These Regulations amend the Army Act 1955 (Part 1) (Regular Army) Regulations 1992 (“the principal Regulations”) which make provision in respect of enlistment of recruits and generally for the carrying into effect of Part 1 of the Army Act 1955. Copies of the principal Regulations are available on request in writing to the Director of Manning (Army), Trenchard Lines, Upavon, Wiltshire, SN9 6BE.

Regulation 2(2) substitutes a new form of Notice Paper for that in Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations. The Notice Paper is the prescribed form to be given to persons offering to enlist in the regular army under section 2 of the Army Act 1955.

(1)

1955 c.18; the power to make regulations under section 22 was vested in the Defence Council by virtue of an amendment to section 22 by S.I. 1964/488. Section 22(2) (which provides for such regulations to be made by statutory instrument) was inserted by the Armed Forces Act 1996 (1996 c.46), section 4(1), and came into force on 1st May 2001.

(2)

These Regulations were made by the Defence Council and came into force on 1st July 1992. They were subsequently amended by the Army Act 1955 (Part 1) (Regular Army) (Amendment) Regulations 1995, which were made by the Defence Council on 17th July 1995 and came into force on 1st August 1995. The principal Regulations as previously amended do not constitute statutory instruments.