No Transitional Arrangement for Transitional Awards of the Efficiency Medal (Territorial) (1982) 
 

It should be noted that there was no such transitional arrangement made for the Efficiency Medal (T&AVR) to the Efficiency Medal (Territorial) (1982) as this was considered a name change only, this is clarified in the Territorial Army Regulations 1978 amendments in 1996.

3. Personnel who were awarded the pre 1967 Efficiency Medals (Army Emergency Reserve) or (Territorial) and their clasps who completed a further 6 years reckonable service after the 1967 reorganization were awarded a further clasp to their original medal. However, following that award, if a soldier continued to serve and completed another 6 year period of reckonable service wholly in the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve, the soldier then qualified for a second medal, the Efficiency Medal (Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve) EM(TAVR) and the clasp previously awarded for a combination of pre and post 1967 service was cancelled and it was necessary to return the insignia to the Army Medal Office before the second medal could be issued. A similar arrangement is not applicable for soldiers awarded the efficiency medal (Territorial and Army Reserve) who completed reckonable service for a second clasp to their medal after 1982 in the redesignated Territorial Army, because, unlike the 1967 reorganization, the changes of 1982 were of title only.

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Transitional Awards of the Volunteer Reserve Service Medal

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However, transitional awards returned with the creation of the Volunteer Reserve Service Medal were both the Efficiency Medal (T&AVR) and the Efficiency Medal (Territorial) (1982) could transition in to the Volunteer Reserve Service Medal.

Territorial Army Regulation 1978 Amendment 22, Annex C to Chapter 3
Regulations and Administrative Instructions for the Volunteer Reserves Service Medal (VRSM)
Part2 – Administrative Instructions
Transitional Arrangements
19. All reckonable service prior to 1 Apr 99 that met the qualifying condition for the TD or EM is to count as qualifying service for the VRSM. (The qualifying rules for these efficiency awards required claimants to have served for 12 reckonable years of service and to have attended Camp in 10 of the 12 years and out of camp training in each of these years. Independent unit personnel were required to attend 6 out of camp training days each year while specialist unit personnel wen required to attend 4 out of camp training days.) Claims for such service to count as qualifying service for the VRSM may therefore contain up to 2 years in which Camp was not attended provided that the claimant attended the required site out of camp training.
20 Under the transitional arrangements, service given after 1 Apr 99 which is allowed to count towards a Clasp for the TD or EM is to count as qualifying service towards the VRSM when the Clasp is surrendered. (The qualifying rules for a Clasp required claimants to serve for a further 6 years and to have attended Camp in 5 of those years and out of camp training as defined above in each of those years.) Claims for such service to count as qualifying service for the VRSM may therefore contain one year in which Camp was not attended provided the claimant attended the requisite out of camp training in each of those years.