Army and Air Force (Annual) Act 1932
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Army and Air Force (Annual) Act, 1932
(22 & 23 Geo. 5.) 22.
An Act to provide, during Twelve Months, for the Discipline and Regulation of the Army and the Air Force.
[28th April 1932]
Whereas the raising or keeping of a standing army within the United Kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with the consent of Parliament, is against law:
And whereas it is adjudged necessary by His Majesty and this present Parliament that a body of land forces should be continued for the safety of the United Kingdom and the defence of the possessions of His Majesty's Crown, and that the whole number of such forces should consist of one hundred and forty-eight thousand seven hundred, including those to be employed at the depots in the United Kingdom for the training of recruits for service at home and abroad, but exclusive of the numbers actually serving within His Majesty's Indian possessions, other than Aden:
And whereas under the Air Force (Constitution) Act, 1917, His Majesty is entitled to raise and maintain the air force, and it is judged necessary that the whole number of such force should consist of thirty-two thousand, including those employed as aforesaid, but exclusive of the numbers serving as aforesaid:
And whereas it is also judged necessary for the safety of the United Kingdom and the defence of the possessions of this realm that a body of Royal Marine forces should be employed in His Majesty's fleet and naval service under the direction of the Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom, or the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral aforesaid:
And whereas the said marine forces may frequently be quartered or be on shore, or sent to do duty or be on board transport ships or vessels, merchant ships or vessels, or other ships or vessels, or they may be under other circumstances in which they will not be subject to the laws relating to the government of His Majesty's forces by sea:
And whereas no man can be forejudged of life or limb, or subjected in time of peace to any kind of punishment within this realm, by martial law, or in any other manner than by the judgment of his peers and according to the known and established laws of this realm; yet, nevertheless, it being requisite, for the retaining all the before-mentioned forces, and other persons subject to military law or to the Air Force Act, in their duty, that an exact discipline be observed and that persons belonging to the said forces who mutiny, or stir up sedition, or desert His Majesty's service, or are guilty of crimes and offences to the prejudice of good order and military or air force discipline, be brought to a more exemplary and speedy punishment than the usual forms of the law will allow:
And whereas the Army Act and the Air Force Act will expire in the year one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two on the following days:—
Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Short title.
1. This Act may be cited as theArmy and Air Force (Annual) Act, 1932.
2 Army Act and Air Force Act to be in force for specified times.
(1) The Army Act and the Air Force Act shall be and remain in force during the periods hereinafter mentioned, and no longer, unless otherwise provided by Parliament, that is to say—
(a ) Within Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, from the thirtieth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two, to the thirtieth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three, both inclusive; and
(b ) Elsewhere, whether within or without His Majesty's dominions, from the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three, both inclusive.
(2) The Army Act and the Air Force Act, while in force, shall apply to persons subject to military law or to the Air Force Act, as the case may be, whether within or without His Majesty's dominions.
(3) A person subject to military law or to the Air Force Act shall not be exempted from the provisions of the Army Act or Air Force Act by reason only that the number of the forces for the time being in the service of His Majesty, exclusive of the marine forces, is either greater or less than the numbers hereinbefore mentioned.
3 Prices in respect of billeting.
3. There shall be paid to the keeper of a victualling house for the accommodation provided by him in pursuance of the Army Act or the Air Force Act the prices specified in the First Schedule to this Act.
AMENDMENTS OF THE ARMY AND AIRFORCE ACTS.
Part I.
to the Air Force Act.(subject to exceptions and modifications)Amendments of the Army Act applicable also
4 Amendment of Army Act, ss. 114, 190.
(1) Section one hundred and fourteen of the Army Act (which relates to the making of annual lists of persons liable to supply carriages and animals) shall be amended in the manner hereinafter mentioned.
(2) Subsection (1b ) of the said section (which relates to the returns to be made by persons keeping horses) shall apply also to persons keeping mechanically propelled carriages and trailers, and accordingly in that subsection—
(i) For the words ‘With respect to horses, the following provisions shall have effect,’ there shall be substituted the words, ‘The provisions of this subsection shall have effect with respect to horses and mechanically propelled carriages and trailers’;
(ii) For the word ‘subsection,’ wherever that word occurs, there shall be substituted the word ‘paragraph’; for ‘(b ) the’ there shall be substituted ‘The’; and for the words from ‘(c ) regulations made by’ to ‘may provide’ there shall be substituted the words ‘and the regulations so made may provide’; and
(iii) At the end of the subsection there shall be added the following paragraph:—
‘(b ) The provisions of the foregoing paragraph shall apply in relation to mechanically propelled carriages and trailers as they apply in relation to horses.’
(3) The subsections of the said section shall be renumbered and rearranged as follows, that is to say, subsection (1b ) shall become subsection (1), subsections (1), (2) and (3) shall become subsections (2), (3) and (4) respectively, and subsections (1a ), (3a ) and (4) shall become subsections (5), (6) and (7) respectively.
(4) At the end of paragraph (40a ) of section one hundred and ninety of the Army Act (which said paragraph defines the expression ‘carriage’) there shall be added the words ‘and the expression 'trailer' means a carriage constructed or adapted for being drawn by a mechanically propelled carriage.’
5 Amendment of Army Act, s. 115.
5. Section one hundred and fifteen of the Army Act (which relates to the supply of carriages, vessels; &c., in a case of emergency) shall be amended as follows:—
6 Amendment of Army Act, s. 133.
6. Section one hundred and thirty-three of the Army Act, which provides that in any country in which operations against the enemy are being conducted certain powers of a Secretary of State with respect to prisons and detention barracks (including a power to appoint places to be used as such) may be exercised by the officer commanding-in-chief in the field, shall be amended by the addition thereto of the following subsection:—
(2) The powers conferred by this section shall continue to be exercisable after the cessation of operations so long as the forces in the country in question are on active service.’
7 Amendment of Army Act, s. 174A.
7. For section one hundred and seventy-four A of the Army Act (which relates to the use without licences of service recreation rooms for public entertainments) the following section shall be substituted:—
174A
(1) so much of any Act as operates to prohibit as respects particular days, or otherwise to restrict or regulate, the keeping, opening or using of premises for purposes of public entertainment or amusement shall not apply to the use, by authority of a Secretary of State or the Admiralty, of any building at a camp, station, or naval establishment, or of any ship, for entertainments or amusements under the direction and control of an officer or committee having official responsibility for such matters.
(2) For the purposes of this section, the expression ‘public entertainment or amusement’ includes public dancing, singing or music, the public performance of stage plays and the giving of cinematograph exhibitions; and in the case of a building or ship which is used for the giving of cinematograph exhibitions, the keeping or storing of films shall be deemed to be part of the use thereof...
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