These Regulations may be cited as the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Friendly Society Life 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;

• “Chief Registrar” means the Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies;

• “society” means a friendly society (whether registered or not) and reference to a society includes reference to a branch of a 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 these Regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.