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

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1(i)Service in pursuance of any notice or directions given under any enactment which provides for the calling out on permanent service, or the calling into actual service, or the embodiment, of any reserve or auxiliary force, or members thereof, or for the recall of service pensioners within the meaning of the Reinstatement in Civil Employment Act, 1950.

(ii)Service, other than for the purposes of training only, in pursuance of any obligation or undertaking, whether legally enforceable or not, to serve when called upon as a commissioned officer, not being an obligation or undertaking to accept a permanent or short-service commission.

(iii)Service in pursuance of any directions given under subsection (5) of section three, subsection (5) of section four, subsection (3) of section five, or subsection (3) of section six, of the Armed Forces (Conditions of Service) Act, 1939, or subsection (2) of section one of the Naval and Marine Forces (Temporary Release from Service) Act, 1940 (as amended by the Naval Forces (Extension of Service) Act, 1944).

(iv)Service in pursuance of any enlistment for a period not exceeding eighteen months with a view to service in the Korean operations continuing at the passing of this Act or in other operations designated for the purposes of this sub-paragraph by His Majesty by Order in Council.

(v)Service, other than for the purposes of training only, in response to any notice or request made or given by the competent naval, military or air force authority, to members of any reserve of the Women's Royal Naval Service, members of Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service Reserve or the Naval Voluntary Aid Detachment Reserve, persons who have served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, members of the Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service Reserve, or persons who have served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, whether or not there is any legal obligation to comply with the notice or request.

(vi)In the case of a person who, during his whole-time service under Part I of the National Service Act, 1948, has accepted a commission in any of the armed forces of the Crown under arrangements made by the competent naval, military or air force authority for treating commissioned service as equivalent to whole-time service under Part I of that Act, his service as a commissioned officer under those arrangements.

(vii)In the case of a person who, being liable under Part I of the National Service Act, 1948, to be called up for whole-time service, has accepted a commission in any of the armed forces of the Crown under any such arrangements as are mentioned in sub-paragraph (vi) of this paragraph and has served whole-time as a commissioned officer under those arrangements without having been called up under the said Part I, his service as a commissioned officer in the circumstances mentioned in this sub-paragraph,

(viii)In the case of a person serving whole-time as a commissioned officer under any such arrangements as aforesaid who has undertaken, with a view to service in such operations as are mentioned in sub-paragraph (iv) of this paragraph, to serve whole-time as a commissioned officer for a further period not exceeding twelve months immediately after the time when his service under the said arrangements would have ended, any further period of such service in pursuance of that undertaking.

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