These Regulations provide for the forfeiture of a period of service by a member of the regular forces who has made a written confession of desertion or has been convicted of desertion.

Where the deserter has made a confession, regulation 3 enables his commanding officer to make a determination that a trial may be dispensed with. In certain circumstances the commanding officer may not make such a determination without the consent of the Director of Service Prosecutions.

Regulation 4 provides for the forfeiture of a period of desertion where the deserter has been convicted of the offence or his commanding officer has made a determination under regulation 3. The effect of the forfeiture is that the period for which the deserter is liable to serve is extended by the period forfeited.

Regulation 5 enables the Defence Council to restore some or all of a period of service forfeited under regulation 4.

Regulation 7 revokes the Armed Forces (Forfeiture of Service) Regulations 2009, which are replaced by these Regulations.

The Schedule makes transitional provision.