Citation, commencement and extent

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Armed Forces (Discharge and Transfer to the Reserve Forces) (Amendment) Regulations 2025.

(2) These Regulations come into force on 24th March 2025.

(3) These Regulations extend to England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the British overseas territories except Gibraltar.

Amendment of the Armed Forces (Discharge and Transfer to the Reserve Forces) (No. 2) Regulations 2009

2. The Armed Forces (Discharge and Transfer to the Reserve Forces) (No. 2) Regulations 2009(2) are amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 5.

Amendment to regulation 2 (interpretation)

3. In regulation 2(2)(b), for “Director of Manning (Army)” substitute “Head of Personnel Policy (Army)”.

Amendment to regulation 6 (certificate of discharge)

4. In regulation 6(1)—

(a)in sub-paragraph (b) omit “and place”;

(b)omit sub-paragraph (c).

Substitution of gender-neutral language

5.—(1) In regulations 2(2), 3, 4, 5(1), 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 18, 20(5) and 21(1), in each place it occurs, for “him” substitute “them”.

(2) In regulation 4, in both places those words occur, for “he consents” substitute “they consent”.

(3) In regulations 4, 5, 6(1), 7, 8, 13(3), 14, 18, 19 and 20(3), in each place it occurs, for “his” substitute “their”.

(4) In regulations 4, 5(1), 18 and 21(1), in each place it occurs, for “he shall” substitute “they shall”.

(5) In regulations 4, 6(1) and 8(8), in each place it occurs, for “he is” substitute “they are”.

(6) In regulation 5(1), for “he intends” substitute “they intend”.

(7) In regulations 7(4) and 20(3), for “he wishes” substitute “they wish”.

(8) In regulation 8—

(a)in paragraph (1), in both places those words occur, for “he would” substitute “they would”;

(b)in paragraph (6)—

(i)for “he could” substitute “they could”;

(ii)in both places those words occur, for “he had” substitute “they had”;

(c)in paragraph (7)—

(i)for “he makes” substitute “they make”;

(ii)for “he may” substitute “they may”.

(9) In regulation 18(5), for “he has” substitute “they have”.

(10) In regulation 20—

(a)in paragraph (2), for “he belongs” substitute “they belong”;

(b)in each place it occurs, for “he was” substitute “they were”.

(11) In regulation 21(1), for “he be” substitute “they be”.