1.     These Regulations may be cited as the Defence (Regular Force Enlistment and Service) Regulations, 1962.

2.     In these Regulations unless the context otherwise requires –

"commanding officer" means, in relation to a soldier, the officer for the time being commanding the unit with which the soldier is serving;
"enlisted" means enlisted to serve in the regular Force.

3.     All officers of the regular Force may act as recruiting officers.

4.     The form of notice paper set out in the First Schedule or a form substantially to the like effect shall be the notice to be given, in accordance with subsection (1) of section 18 of the Act, to a person offering to enlist.

5.      (1)   The recruiting officer, after a person offering to enlist has been given a notice paper, shall satisfy himself that the person understands the contents of the notice paper and the conditions of engagements upon which he is about to enter and he shall warn the person to be enlisted that if he knowingly makes any false answers to the questions in the attestation paper which are to be put to him, he will be liable to be punished as provided by the Act.

(2)   The recruiting officer shall satisfy himself that the person offering to enlist is, or as the case may be, is not, over the apparent age of eighteen years.

(3)   The recruiting officer shall read or cause to be read to the person the questions set out in the attestation paper and shall ensure that the answers are duly recorded thereon.

(4)   The recruiting officer shall then ask the person to make and sign the declaration set out in the attestation paper as to the truth of the answers and shall administer to him the oath of allegiance set out in the attestation paper:

Provided that if the person objects to be sworn and states as a ground for his objection either that he has no religious belief or that the taking of an oath is contrary to his religious belief or if it is not reasonable to administer an oath to such a person in the manner appropriate to his religious belief, the person shall be required to make a solemn affirmation instead of taking the oath.

(5)   Upon signing the declaration in the attestation paper and upon taking the oath, or as the case may be, making the solemn affirmation, the person shall become a soldier and subject to military law under the Act.

(6)   The recruiting officer shall by signature confirm on the attestation paper that the requirements of the Act and these Regulations have been duly complied with and shall deliver the attestation paper duly dated to the officer in charge of the records of the regular Force who shall on receiving the attestation paper sign it in the appropriate place and thereby signify that the person is finally approved for service.

(7)   The soldier on being finally approved for service shall be entitled to receive a certified true copy of the attestation paper.

6.    (1)   In relation to the provisions of the Act specified in the first column of the first Part of the Second Schedule and for the purposes specified opposite thereto in the second column, the officer specified in the third column shall be the competent military authority.

(2)   The officer set out in the second column of the second Part of the said Second Schedule shall in pursuance of subsection (3) of section 22 and section 27 of the Act be competent military authorities for the purpose of authorizing the discharge of a soldier for the reasons set out in the first column thereof.

7.     A soldier on enlistment shall be appointed to a unit and may be transferred from one unit to another.

8.     (1)   The terms of service for which in accordance with subsection (2) of section 19 of the Act a person who has apparently attained the age of eighteen years may be enlisted shall be –

(i)   a term of 6 months, 1,2,3,4, 5, 6,7, 8,9, 10, 11 or 12 years of colour service; or

(ii)   a term of 6 years being as to 1, 2, 3 or 4 years a term of colour service and the remainder a term of service in the reserve;

(iii)   a term of 12 years being as to 7, 8 or 9 years, a term of colour service and the remainder a term of service in the reserve.

(2)   The terms of service for which in accordance with subsection (3) of section 19 of the Act a person who has not apparently attained the age of eighteen years may be enlisted shall be one of the following, being a term beginning with the date of his attestation arid ending with the expiration of a period of –

(i)   6, 9 or 12 years beginning with the day on which he attained the age of eighteen years, being a term of colour service; or

(ii)   9 years beginning with the date on which he attained the age of eighteen years being as to 6 years, a term of colour service and as to the remainder, a term of service in the reserve.

9.    (1)   A soldier may, in accordance with subsection (1) of section 20, of the Act from time to time re-engage for a period of colour service, beginning on the expiration of his then current engagement, of 6 months, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 years but so that a total continuous period of 22 years colour service from the date of his attestation or the date upon which he attained the age of eighteen years, whichever shall be the later, shall not be exceeded.

(2)   For the purposes of section 20 of the Act and this regulation, a continuous period of full-time paid service in Her Majesty’s military forces immediately prior to enlistment in the regular Force shall be treated as colour service.

10.     The particulars to be contained in a certificate of discharge shall be –

(a) number;

(b) name, including Christian or forenames;

(c) date and place of enlistment;

(d) physical description of soldier on leaving colour service;

(e) rank of soldier on leaving colour service;

(f) assessment of conduct and character on leaving colour service with the signature of the officer making the assessment;

(g) date of discharge;

(h) reason for discharge;

(i) total colour service on discharge;

(j) signature of issuing officer.

11.     For the purposes of section 25 of the Act, the following officers substantive are authorized to reduce substantive warrant officers and non-commissioned officers (other than lance-corporals) in rank in cases of inefficiency or unsuitability –

(i)   any officer in executive command not below the rank of colonel; and

(ii)   in the case of corporals only, any officer in executive command not below the rank of lieutenant-colonel.

12.     In cases of inefficiency or unsuitability, a commanding officer may –

(a)   order any warrant officer class II, non-commissioned officer or private soldier to relinquish any acting rank which he may be holding and to revert to his substantive or any intermediate rank;

(b)   order any warrant officer, non-commissioned officer, or acting non-commissioned officer to be removed from any appointment which he may be holding and to assume any other appointment appropriate to his rank or acting rank;

(c)   order any substantive lance-corporal to be reduced to the ranks.