requiring the enlistment of persons in the regular forces to be undertaken by recruiting officers;

as to the persons, whether or not members of the regular forces, who may be appointed as recruiting officers;

prohibiting the enlistment of persons under the age of 18 without the consent of prescribed persons;

deeming a person, in prescribed circumstances, to have attained (or not to have attained) that age;

as to the procedure for enlistment (including requiring a recruiting officer to attest the enlistment);

creating offences relating to knowingly giving false answers during the enlistment procedure;

as to the approval for service of persons who have enlisted.

as to when, how and on what basis the validity of a person's enlistment may be challenged;

deeming a person, in prescribed circumstances, to have been validly enlisted;

conferring on a person a right to discharge in prescribed circumstances;

as to the status of a person until he is discharged.

that the offence is a service offence and is punishable by any punishment mentioned in rows 2 to 12 of the Table in section 164; or

that the offence is an offence triable summarily by a civilian court in the United Kingdom and is punishable by a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale.

specifying the duration of the term for which a person is enlisted (whether by reference to a number of years or another criterion or both);

requiring any such term to be one of service with a regular force, or to be in part service with a regular force and in part service with a reserve force;

enabling a person to end his service with a regular force at a prescribed time, or to transfer at a prescribed time to a reserve force;

restricting a person, in consideration of the acceptance by him of any benefit or advantage, from exercising any right referred to in paragraph (c);

enabling a person enlisted for a term of service of a prescribed description to be treated as if he had enlisted for a term of service of a different description;

enabling a person to extend or reduce the term of his service (whether with a regular force or a reserve force, or both);

enabling a person to continue in service after completion of the term of his service;

enabling a person in a reserve force to re-enter service with a regular force;

enabling a person to serve with a regular force on a part-time basis;

enabling a person's service with a regular force to be restricted to service in a particular area or to be subject to other geographic restrictions;

requiring a person serving subject to a geographic restriction to serve without that restriction on a number of occasions not exceeding a prescribed maximum.

a member of the regular army of or below the rank of warrant officer, or

a member of the Army Reserve of or below the rank of warrant officer who is in permanent service on call-out under any provision of the Reserve Forces Act 1980 (c. 9) or the Reserve Forces Act 1996 (c. 14),

with respect to the making of a confession by a member of the regular forces that he is guilty of an offence under section 8 (desertion);

for the making of a determination as to whether a trial may be dispensed with in the case of a person who makes such a confession;

for the forfeiture of a period of service of such a person where a trial is so dispensed with.

the issue of a certificate of absence in respect of a member of the regular forces absent without leave for more than a prescribed period;

the effects of such a certificate (in particular in connection with the pay and allowances of the person in respect of whom it is issued).

the discharge of members of the regular forces of or below the rank or rate of warrant officer;

the transfer of such persons to the reserve forces.

authorisation of a person's discharge or transfer to a reserve force;

the status of a person who is entitled to be, but has not yet been, discharged or transferred to a reserve force.

following his reduction in rank or rate; or

following his reduction in rank or rate in prescribed circumstances.

the discharge of a person from the regular forces (including by virtue of subsection (3)), or

the transfer of a person to a reserve force,

may not be made without the permission of higher authority (but this is subject to subsection (3));

may not reduce the rank of a person in any of Her Majesty's air forces below the highest rank that person has held in that force as an airman.

the person whose rank is to be reduced is a lance corporal or lance bombardier; or

the commanding officer making the order is of or above the rank of rear admiral, major-general or air vice-marshal.

provide for the way in which pay, bounty and allowances are to be paid;

impose conditions or restrictions on the making of such payments;

confer a discretion on any person.

in respect of anything (including any service) supplied to him;

in order to recover any overpayment or advance; or

in order to reclaim any relevant payment.

it was made on condition that it would or might be repayable in specified circumstances; and

any such circumstance has occurred.

the regular forces; or

any of Her Majesty's forces raised under the law of a British overseas territory F7other than Gibraltar.

to be of a prescribed nationality; and

to serve in a prescribed unit.