The Defence (Transfer of Functions) Order 1965

• Citation: S.I. 1965/1126
• Sections: 4

Section 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.

Section 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” .

Section 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” .

Section 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” .