3 Enlistment for general or corps service and appointment to and transfer between corps.F2U.K.
(1)Recruits may, in pursuance of regulations of [F1the Defence Council] under this Part of this Act, be enlisted for service in particular corps, but save as may be providedby such regulations recruits shall be enlisted for general service.
(2)The competent military authority shall as soon as practicable appoint a recruit, if enlisted for servicein a corps, to that corps, andif enlisted for general service, to such corps as the competent militaryauthority may think fit:
Provided that a recruit enlisted for general service before attaining the age of eighteen years neednot be appointed to a corps until he attains that age.
(3)A soldier of the regular forces may at any time be transferred by order of the competent militaryauthority from one corps to another:
Provided that except while a state of war exists between Her Majesty and any foreign power, or menof the reserve are called out on permanent service, an order under this subsection shall not be madeotherwise than by [F1a member of the Army Board] unless the person to whom the order relates consents to the transfer.
(4)Where, in pursuance of the last foregoing subsection, a soldier of the regular forces is transferredto a corps in an arm or branch of the service different from that in which he was previously serving, thecompetent military authority may by order vary the conditions of his service so as to correspond with thegeneral conditions of service in the arm or branch to which he is transferred.
Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by S.I. 1964/488, Sch. 1 Pt. I
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 3(3) extended by Reserve Forces Act 1980 (c. 9), s. 18(2)
Textual Amendments applied to the whole legislation
F2Act: the provisions of the 1955 Acts providing for findings of courts-martial to be subject to confirmation and to revision at the direction of the confirming officer cease to have effect (1.4.1997 subject to art. 3 of the commencing S.I.) by virtue of 1996 c. 46, s. 15; S.I. 1997/304, arts. 2, 3, Sch. 2