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Any person who is a member of the Ulster Defence Regiment at the commencement of this Act shall cease to be a member at that time and, if his term of service with the Regiment would have continued after that time,—

Except so far as they are altered by virtue of subsection (1) above (and without prejudice to any alteration made otherwise than by virtue of that subsection) the conditions of service of a person within paragraph (a) of that subsection shall be the same after the commencement of this Act as they are before that time, except that they shall not include conditions restricting to Northern Ireland any requirement as to training.

In subsection (1) of section 2 of the Armed Forces Act 1966 (power of the Defence Council to make regulations as to engagement of persons in regular forces), after paragraph (h) there shall be inserted—.

After that subsection there shall be inserted—

The provisions of the Reserve Forces (Safeguard of Employment) Act 1985 applicable in Northern Ireland shall apply to a person who is, or is liable to be, called out— as they apply to a person who has entered, or (as the case may be) may be required to enter, upon a period of whole-time service in the circumstances mentioned in section 1(1)(a) of that Act.

Any service rendered by a person called out as mentioned in subsection (3) above, and any continuous period of training of seven days or longer performed by a person liable to be called out as mentioned there, shall be relevant service within the meaning of the provisions of the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951 applicable in Northern Ireland.

Sections 7 and 139(2) of the Reserve Forces Act 1980 are hereby repealed.

Sections 10(5), 24, 25, 44, 139(1) and 140 to 144 of that Act shall apply with the necessary modifications in relation to any person within section 1(1)(a) above for the remainder of his term of service current at the commencement of this Act.

In section 44 of that Act, as it has effect by virtue of subsection (2) above, the words “in Northern Ireland” and the words “which is for the time being in Northern Ireland” shall be omitted.

Section 1(1)(c) of the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 and section 1(1)(c) of the Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975 shall have effect as if the references to persons who are for the time being members of the Ulster Defence Regiment were references to persons for the time being within section 1(1)(a) above.