Armed Forces Act 1966

20 Amendments as to active service.

(1) The cases in which, where a force is engaged in operations for the protection of life or property, it is, by virtue of section 224(1) of the [1955 c. 18.] Army Act 1955 or section 222(1) of the [1955 c. 19.] Air Force Act 1955, on active service within the meaning of each of those Acts shall be extended to include, as well as the case where the operations are in a foreign country, one in which they are in any other country outside the United Kingdom.

(2) The authority by whom under subsections (2), (3) and (4) of the said section 224 or, as the case may be, of the said section 222, declarations may be made with respect to a force's being deemed to be on active service, shall cease to include, in relation to a force in a colony, the Governor of the colony.

(3) The cases in which, where a force is landed for the purpose of the protection of life and property, it is by section 134 of the Naval Discipline Act 1957 to be deemed to be on active service shall be extended to include, as well as the case where it is landed in a foreign country, one in which it is landed in any other country outside the United Kingdom.

(4) Accordingly.—

(a) in the said section 224(1) and the said section 222(1), for the words "is engaged in a foreign country in operations for the protection of life or property ", there shall be substituted the words " is engaged elsewhere than in the United Kingdom in operations for the protection of life or property ";

(b) in the said section 224 and the said section 222, the following shall cease to have effect, that is to say, in subsection (8), paragraph (a), and, in paragraph (b), the words " not in a colony ", and subsection (9);

(c) in the said section 134, for the words " landed in any foreign country ", there shall be substituted the words " landed elsewhere than in the United Kingdom ".