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PART II.
Miscellaneous Amendments of the Acts.
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Re-enactment with modifications of section 153 of the Principal Act and consequential amendment of section 157 of the Principal Act.
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5.—(1) The following section shall be substituted for section 153 of the Principal Act—
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“153.—(1) Where a soldier of the Forces who, under section 52 of this Act, has completed or will within one year complete a total continuous period of twenty-one years' Army service, gives notice to his commanding officer of his desire to continue to serve for a further period (in this subsection referred to as the first period) of two years, the following provisions shall have effect—
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(a) he may, with the approval of the prescribed military authority, be continued in service for the first period,
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(b) if—
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(i) he is continued in service for the first period, and
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(ii) before the expiration thereof he gives notice to his commanding officer of his desire to continue to serve for a further period (in this subsection referred to as the second period) of two years,
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he may, with the approval of the prescribed military authority, be continued in service for the second period,
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(c) if—
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(i) he is continued in service for the second period, and
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(ii) before the expiration thereof he gives notice to his commanding officer of his desire to continue to serve for a further period (in this subsection referred to as the third period) of two years,
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he may, with the approval of the prescribed military authority, be continued in service for the third period,
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(d) if—
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(i) he is continued in service for the third period, and
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(ii) before the expiration thereof he gives notice to his commanding officer of his desire to continue to serve for a further period (in this subsection referred to as the fourth period) of two years,
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he may, with the approval of the prescribed military authority, be continued in service for the fourth period,
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(e) if—
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(i) he is continued in service for the fourth period, and
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(ii) before the expiration thereof he gives notice to his commanding officer of his desire to continue to serve for a further period of two years,
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he may be continued in service for that further period.
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(2) Where a soldier of the Forces is continued in service for a particular period of two years under subsection (1) of this section he may be continued as a soldier of the Forces for that period in all respects as if his term of service were still unexpired.”
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(2) Section 157 of the Principal Act is hereby amended as follows:—
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(a) in subsection (1), the words “or of the period of his continuance in service” shall be inserted after the word “re-engagement”;
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(b) in subsection (3), the words “or his continuance in service” shall be inserted after the word “re-engagement”.
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