111Naval forces, volunteers and trainees
(1)Every officer on the active list of officers of the Royal Navy (not being an officer of any such class as may be prescribed by regulations made by the Admiralty), and every rating of the Royal Navy, is subject to this Act at all times.
(2)Any officer on any retired or emergency list of officers of the Royal Navy is subject to this Act when ordered on any duty or service for which, as such an officer, he is liable, and is so subject from the time appointed for him to report or attend for that purpose until he is duly released or discharged.
(3)Any officer or rating of any of the naval reserve forces is subject to this Act—
(a)while being trained or exercised in pursuance of any enactment relating to those forces or any regulations made under any such enactment;
(b)when called, recalled or required to re-enter into actual service under any such enactment or regulation,
and is so subject from the time appointed for him to report or attend for any such purpose until he is duly released or discharged.
(4)Without prejudice to subsection (1) of this section, any naval pensioner who is required to join the Royal Navy under section sixteen of the Naval Volunteers Act, 1853, is subject to this Act from the time appointed for him to report or attend for that purpose.
(5)Any person not otherwise subject to this Act who volunteers or engages for service, training or exercise with the Royal Navy, not being—
(a)a member of the Women's Royal Naval Service or Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service or any reserve of either of those services;
(b)a member of the Voluntary Aid Detachments ;
(c)a member of the Sea Cadet Corps or the Combined Cadet Force; or
(d)a person excepted from this subsection by directions of the Admiralty,
is subject to this Act during the period of service, training or exercise.
(6)A person not otherwise subject to this Act, being a member of—
(a)any of the armed forces of the Crown raised outside the United Kingdom; or
(b)any armed forces other than armed forces of the Crown,
not being in either case forces excepted from this subsection by directions of the Admiralty) is subject to this Act when ordered to be trained or exercised on board any of Her Majesty's ships or in any of Her Majesty's naval establishments.
(7)Where by virtue of this section this Act applies to any person not being a member of the armed forces of the Crown, it shall apply to him (except so far as may be otherwise provided by regulations made by the Admiralty)—
(a)if he holds any rank or rate in any other naval, military or air forces, as it applies to a person holding the corresponding rank or rate in the armed forces of the Crown;
(b)in any other case, as it applies to an able seaman.
(8)This section applies to chaplains in the Royal Navy or in any of the naval reserve forces as it applies to officers of the Royal Navy, or of that force, as the case may be.