Enlistment (Operationally Ready National Service Orders and Notices) Regulations 1989

Enlistment Act 1970

(Sections 30 and 37)

Enlistment (Operationally Ready National
Service Orders and Notices)
Regulations 1989

2024 REVISED EDITION

(18 December 2024)

[18 August 1989]

Citation

1. These Regulations are the Enlistment (Operationally Ready National Service Orders and Notices) Regulations 1989.

Definition

2. In these Regulations, “mobilisation centre” means a place appointed by the proper authority at which a person liable for operationally ready national service must report for service.

Assignment of code and mobilisation centre

3.—(1) The proper authority may, by letter delivered personally or sent by registered post addressed to a person who is liable for operationally ready national service at the usual or last known place of residence or business of that person, assign to that person any code or codes in words, figures or symbols and designate a mobilisation centre.

(2) The proper authority may, by letter sent in the manner set out in paragraph (1), vary or revoke any code or codes so assigned or change the mobilisation centre so designated under that paragraph.

Service by broadcast over radio or television and radio‑communications pager

4.—(1) When an order or a notice to report for operationally ready national service is served under section 30(2)(c) of the Act, it may be so served by broadcasting over radio and television any code or codes in words, figures or symbols as may be determined by the proper authority.

(2) When an order or a notice to report for operationally ready national service is served under section 30(2)(j) of the Act, it may be so served by transmitting over a radio‑communications pager any code or codes in words, figures or symbols as may be determined by the proper authority.

Person liable for operationally ready national service to report at mobilisation centre

5.—(1) Every person who is liable for operationally ready national service and who has been assigned in accordance with regulation 3 any code or codes which has or have been broadcast over radio and television or transmitted by radio-communications pager must, upon hearing or seeing the broadcast or transmission, immediately report in uniform for operationally ready national service at the mobilisation centre assigned to him under that regulation.

(2) Despite paragraph (1), where the time for reporting is stated in the broadcast or transmission mentioned in that paragraph, the person liable for operationally ready national service must report for operationally ready national service at the time so stated.

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