The Defence (Transfer of Functions) Order 1965

Statutory Instruments

1965 No. 1126

DEFENCE

The Defence (Transfer of Functions) Order 1965

Made

14th May 1965

Laid before Parliament

20th May 1965

Coming into Operation

21st May 1965

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 14th day of May 1965

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in pursuance of section 3(1) of the Defence (Transfer of Functions) Act 1964 is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Defence (Transfer of Functions) Order 1965.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 21st May 1965.

2.  Schedule A to the Exchequer and Audit Departments Act 1866, as amended by the Exchequer and Audit Departments Act 1921, (under which the time-table for the preparation etc. of the annual appropriation accounts of supply grants is different in the case of grants for the Army, Navy and Air Force and in the case of other grants) shall be amended by substituting, in the first column, for the words “Army Navy Air Force” the words “Defence Services”.

3.  In the Patriotic Fund Reorganisation Act 1903, in paragraph 6 of the Schedule (which provides for appointments to the Executive Committee of the Royal Patriotic Fund Corporation, and directs that two members be appointed by the First Lord of the Admiralty and two by the Secretary of State for War), for the words “two by the First Lord of the Admiralty, two by the Secretary of State for War” there shall be substituted the words “four by the Secretary of State for Defence”.

4.  In section 18(1) of the Auxiliary Forces Act 1953 (under which the competent military or air force authority may during an emergency postpone a man's discharge from the Territorial Army or Royal Auxiliary Air Force) for the words “the competent military or, as the case may be, air force authority” there shall be substituted the words “the Defence Council or an officer designated by them”.

W. G. Agnew

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order makes adaptations in Acts of Parliament which arise out of the transfers of functions effected by the Defence (Transfer of Functions) Act 1964 or out of the Defence reorganisation referred to in that Act.