Defence Forces (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1947
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Adaptation of terminology of Acts as applicable to the Naval Service. |
8.—(1) For the purpose of adapting the terminology of the Acts, in their application to the Naval Service, to naval usage, but without prejudice to the status, under the Acts, of members of the Naval Service, the following provisions shall have effect:— | |
(a) in the Acts (as applicable to the Naval Service) and in any orders, rules and regulations (as applicable to the Naval Service) made under the Acts— | ||
(i) references (except in section 208 of the Principal Act) to a person subject to military law as an officer shall be construed as references to a person subject to naval law as an officer, | ||
(ii) references (except in section 209 of the Principal Act) to a person subject to military law as a soldier shall be construed as references to a person subject to naval law as a sailor, | ||
(iii) references (except in sections 208 and 209 of the Principal Act) to a person subject to military law shall be construed as references to a person subject to naval law, | ||
(iv) references (except in section 209 of the Principal Act) to a soldier shall be construed as references to a sailor, | ||
(v) references to military discipline shall be construed as references to naval discipline, | ||
(vi) references to reduction to a lower grade or a lower rank, shall,— | ||
(I) in the case of a warrant officer, be construed as references to reduction to a grade of naval rating, and | ||
(II) in the case of a person holding a grade of naval rating, be construed as references to reduction to a lower grade of naval rating, | ||
(vii) references to reduction to the ranks shall be construed as references to reduction to the naval rating of seaman, | ||
(viii) references to army service shall be construed as references to navy service, | ||
(ix) references to military service shall be construed as references to naval service, | ||
(x) references to military command shall be construed as references to naval command; | ||
(b) the Government may from time to time by order make such other adaptations of the Acts (as applicable to the Naval Service) as they think fit. | ||
(2) For the purposes of the Acts and orders, rules and regulations made thereunder, as adapted by or under subsection (1) of this section— | ||
the expression “person subject to naval law as an officer” means a person being— | ||
(a) an officer of the Forces holding a naval rank, or | ||
(b) an officer of the Reserve of Officers holding a naval rank, when he is ordered on duty for which as such officer he is liable, or | ||
(c) an officer of the Reserve of Officers holding a naval rank, when engaged in voluntary training or when undergoing treatment in any hospital under the control of the Minister or when in uniform; | ||
the expression “person subject to naval law as a sailor” means any person being— | ||
(a) a member of the Forces who holds the naval rank of warrant officer or is a naval rating, | ||
(b) a man (in this definition referred to as a naval reservist) of the Reserve of Men who holds the naval rank of warrant officer or is a naval rating when— | ||
(i) called for training or exercise, or | ||
(ii) called out for duty in aid of the civil power, or | ||
(iii) called out on permanent service, or | ||
(iv) employed on service under the orders of an officer of the Forces, or | ||
(c) a naval reservist when engaged in voluntary training or when undergoing treatment in any hospital under the control of the Minister or when in uniform; | ||
the expression “person subject to naval law” means any person being— | ||
(a) a person subject to naval law as an officer (as defined in this subsection), or | ||
(b) a person subject to naval law as a sailor (as defined in this subsection); | ||
the word “sailor” means a person subject to naval law as a sailor (as defined in this subsection) while he is so subject. |