Any officer or rating of Her Majesty’s naval forces may be attached temporarily to any of Her Majesty’s military or air forces.

Regulations may be made by F2the Defence Council for prescribing the circumstances in which officers and ratings of Her Majesty’s naval forces are to be treated as attached to any of Her Majesty’s military or air forces, as the case may be, under this section.

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A person shall not cease to be subject to this Act by reason only of his being attached to any forces in pursuance of this section.

Without prejudice to the provisions of section four of the M1Visiting Forces (British Commonwealth) Act 1933 (which provides for the attachment of members of home forces to the forces of certain Commonwealth countries), any officer or rating of Her Majesty’s naval forces may, by order of F4the Defence Council or of the Commander-in-Chief or senior naval officer present on a foreign station, be required to serve with any naval, military or air force of a Commonwealth country or of any other country.

A person shall not cease to be subject to this Act by reason only of his being required to serve with any naval, military or air force in pursuance of this section.

For the purposes of section eleven, . . . F5 and section forty-five of this Act, any such officer, warrant officer or non-commissioned officer as aforesaid shall be treated as an officer or rating of corresponding rank or rate, and shall have the like powers under the said section forty-five as if he were a person subject to this Act.