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Assignment of officer of Reserve Defence Force to a particular class of the Reserve Defence Force. | 
44.—(1) Where a person is appointed to be an officer of the Reserve Defence Force, such person shall, on appointment, be assigned by the Minister to a particular class of the Reserve Defence Force. | 
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(2) An officer of the Reserve Defence Force who for the time being belongs to a particular class of the Reserve Defence Force may, with his own consent, be assigned by the Minister to another class of the Reserve Defence Force. | 
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(3) In this section, the expression “class of the Reserve Defence Force” means any class of the Reserve Defence Force being— | 
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(a) the Reserve of Officers (First Line), or | 
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(b) the Reserve of Officers (An Fórsa Cosanta Aitiúil), or | 
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(c) the Reserve of Officers (An Slua Muirí), or | 
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(d) any class constituted under subsection (2) of section 21. |