any member of such unit may be required by the Commander to contribute towards compensation for such da mage or loss in such amount as the board determines to be just. (4) Any amount of compensation determined under subsection (3) may be deducted from the member’s pay and allowances. 111 Establishment or declaration of detention barracks The Minister may establish detention barracks and may, by notice in a statutory instrument, declare any building or place to be detention barracks for the purposes of this Act. 112 Powers in connection with training (1) Subject to this section, the Minister may, by notice in a statutory instrument, from time to time designate areas wherein any unit of the Defence Forces may, without the consent of any person affected or likely to be affected thereby, conduct military exercises as part of its training: Provided that— (i) no camp shall be erected in pursuance of the powers conferred by this subsection within a radius of five hundred metres of a private dwelling without the consent of the owner or occupier thereof; (ii) the powers conferred by this subsection shall not include the power to acquire, whether compulsorily or by agreement, any Communal Land or any interest in or right over Communal Land, otherwise than in accordance with the Communal Land Act [Chapter 20:04]. (2) No area shall be designated by the Minister in terms of subsection (1) unless a notice in terms of subsection (3) has been published in a newspaper circulating in the area concerned. (3) A notice referred to in subsection (2) shall— (a) define the area which it is proposed to designate in terms of subsection (1); and (b) state the period for which the area is to be so designated; and (c) invite all interested persons to submit to the Minister, not later than a date to be specified in the notice, any representations which they may wish to make. (4) The Minister shall, before designating an area in terms of subsection (1), consider any representations referred to in paragraph (c) of subsection (3). (5) Parts III, V and VIII of the Land Acquisition Act [Chapter 20:10] shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the exercise by the Minister of his powers in terms of subsection (1). (6) The commanding officer of any unit of the Defence Forces which is undergoing training may temporarily stop all traffic by land, air or water in or in the vicinity of any area referred to in subsection (1) or any other area in which military exercises are being conducted or which is being used for range practice or other training in so far as may, in his opin ion, be necessary for the security of life or the proper conduct of the military exercises, range practice or other training. (7) Any person who disobeys or disregards any order, sign or signal erected, given or made in the exercise of the powers conferred by subsection (6) shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level five. [Subsection amended by s. 4 of Act 22/2001] 113 Regulations (1) Subject to this Act, the Minister may make such regulations as, in his opinion, are necessary or convenient for securing the discipline and good government of the Defence Forces, providing for the conditions of service of members thereof and generally for the better carrying out of the objects and purposes of this Act. (2) The Minister may make regulations in terms of subsection (1)— (a) for any matter which by this Act is required or permitted to be prescribed or for which regulations may be made; (b) with respect to the investigation and trial of offences recognizable by a military court and with respect to the confirmation and revision of findings and sentences of a military court and in particular— (i) the procedure to be observed in the bringing of charges before a prescribed officer; (ii) the manner in which charges referred to in subparagraph (i) are to be investigated and the taking of evidence, whether orally or in writing, on oath or not, in full or in summary or in abstract form, for the purposes of investigating or dealing summarily with such charges or otherwise as a preliminary to the trial thereof by court martial; (iii) the rules as to the sufficiency or admissibility of evidence and as to the competency, compellability, examination and cross-examination of witnesses to be observed in proceedings before a prescribed officer; (iv) the addition to or substitution for a charge which has been investigated of a new charge for an offence disclosed by evidence taken on the investigation and the treating of the investigation as the investigation of the new charge; (v) the convening and constitution of a court martial; (vi) the sittings, adjournment and dissolution of a court martial; (vii) the procedure to be observed in a trial by a court martial;

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