(c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) (i) (j) (k) (viii) the representation of the accused at a trial by a court martial; (ix) procuring the attendance of witnesses before a court martial and at the taking of evidence in pursuance of regulations referred to in subparagraph (ii); (x) empowering a court martial or the convening officer in such cases and to such extent as may be prescribed to amend a charge which has been tried by the court martial; (xi) the powers of a confirming authority and the duties of a court martial in relation to any directions given to it by a confirming authority and the right of an accused to make representations to the confirming authority; (xii) the convening of a field general court martial; providing for the establishment of boards of inquiry and such other boards as may be necessary or convenient for the purposes of this Act and prescribing the constitution, functions, duties, powers, rules of evidence and procedure and jurisdiction thereof; for the ranks and appointments, including honorary ranks and appointments, and designations in the Defence Forces; for the management and control of detention barracks and for the treatment of and method of treating prisoners lodged in detention barracks; for the custody or disposal of the effects and property of, or pay, allowances and other benefits due to, members who desert or who are absent without leave; for returns, books and forms relating to the Defence Forces; for all matters relating to visiting forces, including the discipline and internal administration thereof, the relationship of visiting forces to the civil power and civilians, the attachment of personnel to and by such forces and the matter of powers of command; for the patenting of inventions and designs by members; for the payment of travelling and subsistence allowances to members and to any person who attends as a witness before a military court or a board; prescribing penalties for contraventions of the provisions of any regulations not exceeding a fine of level four or, in default of payment, imprisonment or detention for a period not exceeding three months; [Paragraph amended by s. 4 of Act 22/2001] (l) for the manner and circumstances in which any deficiency, loss, damage or expense caused to the State or to the Defence Forces by the wrongful act, negligence or carelessness of a member may be recovered from such member, and the manner in which, and the person or persons by whom, the amount to be recovered from such member shall be determined; (m) relating to the arrest and custody of members before, during and after trial by court martial. (3) Different regulations may be made in terms of this section in respect of different— (a) classes of members; (b) classes of prisoners lodged in detention barracks; (c) military courts; (d) exemption boards; (e) units; (f) boards and boards of inquiry; (g) confirming authorities. 114 Savings (1) Any regulations which were made or deemed to have been made by the Defence Forces Service Commission before the 1st July, 1994, and which were in force immediately before that date shall be deemed to have been made by the Minister in terms of section one hundred and thirteen. (2) Anything which was lawfully made, done or commenced before the 1st July, 1994, by or on the authority of the Defence Forces Service Commission, the Commander of the Army or the Commander of the Air Force and which, immediately before that date, had or was capable of acquiring legal effect shall, on and after that date, continue to have or be capable of acquiring, as the case may be, the same effect as if it had been made, done or commenced by the Commission, the Minister or the Commander, as the case may be, in terms of the appropriate provision of this Act as amended by Act No. 8 of 1993. FIRST SCHEDULE (Sections 39, 45, 46, 47, 61, 105 and 107) MILITARY OFFENCES ARRANGEMENT OF PARAGRAPHS Paragraph 1. Interpretation. 2. Aiding the enemy. 3. Communications with the enemy and injurious disclosures. 4. Failure to report contraventions of paragraph 2 or 3. 5. Cowardly behaviour. 6. Becoming prisoner of war through disobedience or wilful neglect and failure to rejoin forces.

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