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.

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;

The Interpretation Act, 1889, applies to the interpretation of the Regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.