1 1 These regulations may be cited as the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Industrial Assurance &c. Policies) Regulations, 1951, and shall come into operation on the 4th day of August, 1951.
2 In these regulations, unless and except so far as the context may otherwise require, the following expressions shall have the following meanings, that is to say:—
“the Act” means the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act, 1951:
“the Regulations” means these Regulations and includes the forms set out in the Schedule hereto:
“the Commissioner” means the Industrial Assurance Commissioner:
“company” means an industrial assurance company;
“society” means a collecting society;
“owner” in relation to any policy means the person who is for the time being the person entitled to receive the sums payable under the policy on maturity;
“policy” includes a contract of assurance in respect of which no specific document constituting the contract is issued;
“relevant service” means service after the fifteenth day of July, nineteen hundred and fifty, of a description specified in the First Schedule to the Act;
“serviceman” means a man who performs relevant service, and includes a woman who performs relevant service;
3 The Interpretation Act, 1889, applies to the interpretation of the Regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.