Local service engagement
7.—(1) A person who has attained the age of 18 years may be enlisted for local service.
(2) For the purposes of these Regulations, “local service” means full-time service in the regular army where, subject to paragraph (5), the person enlisted restricts his service to a particular area in the United Kingdom (referred to in this regulation as his “area of service”).
(3) Before being enlisted for local service, a person shall be required to give the recruiting officer enlisting him notice in writing specifying the area in the United Kingdom to which his service is to be restricted.
(4) Subject to paragraph (7), the area of service of any person enlisted for local service shall be the area specified in the notice given in accordance with paragraph (3).
(5) A person enlisted for local service may volunteer to serve outside his area of service; otherwise, he may only be required to serve outside his area of service for a total of no more than 30 days in any year or in any part of a year during which his term of service has effect.
(6) A person enlisted for local service may apply by notice in writing to the competent military authority to alter his area of service, specifying in the notice the area in the United Kingdom to which his service would be restricted if his application were to be approved.
(7) If the competent military authority signify their approval in writing to an application made under paragraph (6), the person’s area of service shall be, from such date as may be specified in the notice of approval, the area specified in the notice given by him under that paragraph.
(8) Regulations 9, 11, 12, 13 and 14 shall not apply to a person enlisted for local service.
(9) In this regulation—
“recruiting officer” shall be construed in accordance with section 1 of the 1955 Act (1); and
“year” shall mean the period of 12 months beginning on 1st January.
1955 c.18; section 1 was amended by the Defence (Transfer of Functions) (No. 1) Order 1964, S.I. 1964/488, article 2 and Schedule 1, Part 1.