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Orders or regulations under this Act may provide with respect to the government, discipline and pay of the Air Force Reserve, and with respect to other matters and things relating to the Air Force Reserve.
(1)Any power or jurisdiction given to, and any act or thing to be done by, to, or before, any person holding any air force office may, in relation to the Air Force Reserve, be exercised by or done by, to, or before any other person for the time being authorised in that behalf according to the custom of the service.
(2)Where by this Act, or by any order or regulation under this Act, any order is authorised to be made by any air force authority, the order may be signified by an order, instruction or letter under the hand of any officer authorised to issue orders on behalf of that air force authority, and an order, instruction or letter purporting to be signed by any officer who appears from it to be so authorised shall be evidence of his being so authorised.
(1)A man enlisted into the Air Force Reserve may, whether or not he has previously served in the regular air force, be enlisted in the Air Force Reserve for service as a special reservist.
(2)A special reservist may be re-engaged, and when re-engaged shall continue subject to the terms of service applicable to special reservists.
(3)A man may be enlisted in the Air Force Reserve for service as a special reservist with a liability to serve only within the limits of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.
(4)Orders and regulations under this Act may provide—
(a)for the formation of special reservists into squadrons or other air force units, and for the formation of such squadrons or other air force units into wings, groups or other formations, either alone or jointly with any other part of Her Majesty’s air force; and
(b)for appointing, transferring or attacking special reservists to such units or formations; and
(c)for posting, attaching or otherwise dealing with special reservists within such units or formations.
(5)A special reservist who enlists into the regular air force shall upon such enlistment be deemed to be discharged from the Air Force Reserve.
(1)The Secretary of State may, by regulations under this Act, authorise any special reservist having the qualifications prescribed by those regulations to agree in writing that—
(a)if the time at which he would otherwise be entitled to be discharged from the Air Force Reserve occurs when he is called out for permanent service, then
(b)he will continue to serve in the Air Force Reserve until the expiry of such period, whether definite or indefinite, as may be specified in the agreement,
(2)If any man who enters into such an agreement is called out for permanent service, he shall be liable to be detained in service for the period specified in his agreement in the same manner in all respects as if his term of service were still unexpired.
(1)A special reservist may, in addition to being called out for annual training, be called out for a special course or special courses of training—
(a)at such place or places in the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man,
(b)at such time or times, and
(c)for such period or periods, not exceeding in the whole 6 months,
as may be prescribed, in like manner and subject to the like conditions as if he were called out for annual training.
(2)Where one of the conditions on which a special reservist was enlisted or re-engaged is that he shall not be called out for training, whether special or annual, for a longer period than the period specified in his attestation paper, he shall not be liable under this section to be called out for any longer period.
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