Reserve Forces Act 1980

Army Reserve U.K.

62 Government, discipline and pay of Army Reserve. U.K.

(1) Orders or regulations under this Act may provide with respect to the government, discipline and pay of the Army Reserve, and with respect to other matters and things relating to the Army Reserve.

(2) No such order or regulation shall render a man who entered the Army Reserve before the date of the order or regulation liable without his consent to be appointed, transferred or attached to any military body to which he could not, without his consent, have been appointed, transferred or attached if the order or regulation had not been made.

63 Exercise of powers vested in military office holder. U.K.

(1) Any power or jurisdiction given to, and any act or thing to be done by, to, or before, any person holding any military office may, in relation to the Army 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 military 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 military 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.

64 Payment and management of Army Reserve pensions. U.K.

Where (either before or after the passing of this Act) a man of the Army Reserve—

(a) has been called out for permanent service and continued as a man of the Army Reserve after the termination of that service, and

(b) has become entitled to pension under any order or regulation under this Act,

all powers exercisable for the award and payment of the pension and otherwise in relation to the pension shall be exercisable by the like authority as if he were a man discharged from the army on reduction.

65 Transfer to Territorial Army. U.K.

(1) A man of the Army Reserve may, with the consent of the prescribed authority, enlist in the Territorial Army and shall on so enlisting cease to be a man of the Army Reserve.

(2) If a man who has enlisted into the Territorial Army in pursuance of subsection (1) above—

(a) ceases to be a member of that reserve before the date on which his term of service in the Army Reserve would have expired if he had not so enlisted, then,

(b) he shall, unless the prescribed authority otherwise directs (and that power of direction includes power to make different provision for different circumstances), again be a man of the Army Reserve by virtue of this subsection for the residue of that term, without prejudice to the operation of any enactment under which that term may be extended.