Army Act 1992 [UDR]
01 January 1991
Army Act 1992 [UDR]
actdoc July=1992
(Act amalgamating the Ulster Defence Regiment with the army).
An Act to provide for members of the Ulster Defence Regiment to
cease to be members of that Regiment at the end of June 1992; to
provide for the amendment of section 2 of the Armed Forces Act
1966 in relation to service in Northern Ireland; and for
connected purposes.
[16th March 1992]
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with
the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and
Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the
authority of the same, as follows:-
[Serving members of the Ulster Defence Regiment]
1.-(1) Any person who is a member of the Ulster Defence
Regiment at the commencement of this Act shall cease to be a
member at that time and, if his term of service with the Regiment
would have continued after that time,-
(a) he shall continue to be a member of the armed forces
until the term of service current at that time expires
or is otherwise brought to an end, and
(b) he may be transferred to another corps in the same way
as a member of the regular forces serving in a corps
other than the Ulster Defence Regiment.
(2) Except so far as they are altered by virtue of subsection
(1) above (and without prejudice to any alteration made otherwise
than by virtue of that subsection) the conditions of service of
a person within paragraph (a) of that subsection shall be the
same after the commencement of this Act as they are before that
time, except that they shall not include conditions restricting
to Northern Ireland any requirement as to training.
2.-(1) In subsection (1) of section 2 of the Armed Forces
Act 1966 (power of the Defence Council to make regulations as to
engagement of persons in regular forces), after paragraph (h)
there shall be inserted -
"(i) enabling service in the army (or service in the army
otherwise than for the purposes of training) to be
restricted to service in Northern Ireland".
(2) After that subsection there shall be inserted-
"(1A) In the case of persons whose service (or
service otherwise than for the purposes of training) is
restricted to service in Northern Ireland, subsection (1)
above shall have effect as if references to fulltime
service included references to part-time service (or to a
combination of full-time and part-time service).
(1B) In subsection (1A) above references to
part-time service include references to service by a
person who is required to serve only at such times as he
may be called out in accordance with the regulations."
(3) The provisions of the Reserve Forces (Safeguard of
Employment) Act 1985 applicable in Northern Ireland shall
apply to a person who is. or is liable to be, called out-
(a) in accordance with regulations made by virtue of
section 2(1A) of the Armed Forces Act 1966, or
(b) in accordance with any Royal Warrant regulating the
conditions of service of officers,
as they apply to a person who has entered, or (as the case may
be) may be required to enter, upon a period of whole-time
service in the circumstances mentioned in section 1 (1)(a) of
that Act.
(4) Any service rendered by a person called out as
mentioned in subsection (3) above, and any continuous period
of training of seven dan,s or longer performed by a person
liable to be called out as mentioned there, shall be relevant
service within the meaning of the provisions of the Reserve
and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951
applicable in Northern Ireland.
3.-(1) Sections 7 and 139(2) of the Reserve Forces Act
1980 are hereby repealed.
(2) Sections 10(5), 24, 25, 44, 139(1) and 140 to 144 of
that Act shall apply with the necessary modific