S.L. 220.3 Art. 44Transfers.

The following provisions shall have effect with respect to the transfer of a man from one corps to another where such transfer is consented to or requested by the man concerned:

(a) If a warrant officer or a non-commissioned officer consents to or requests a transfer, the Officer-in-Charge Records will inform him as soon as practicable whether he may retain his substantive rank on transfer and will notify him what substantive rank and seniority in his new corps can be granted if his transfer is approved. If a vacancy in his rank does not exist or if his qualifications and experience do not qualify him for transfer in his substantive rank and he is unwilling to accept the rank and seniority offered he shall be entitled to withdraw his request or consent. In such circumstances as would entitle a man to withdraw his request or consent, a transfer shall not be authorised unless -

(i) the man concerned is willing to revert voluntarily to a substantive rank in which he can be accepted; or

(ii) the transfer arises out of a recommendation for re-employment and the man is to be reduced in rank under the provisions of the Act or of any regulations made thereunder.

(b) A man who consents to a transfer to another corps shall not be permitted at any future time to be re-transferred to his former corps unless such re-transfer is in the interest of the service.

(c) A transfer will take effect from the date on which a man is taken on the strength of his new corps and such man shall be struck off the strength of his previous corps with effect from the preceding day.

(d) Unless otherwise ordered by the competent military authority, a man shall be retained on the strength of his corps during the period of probation which he may be required to spend with the corps to which he has requested or consented to be transferred, and the transfer shall unless otherwise ordered as aforesaid, be authorised with effect from the date following the completion of such probation or the date on which the vacancy occurs in the corps to which the man is being transferred, whichever is the later date: Provided that where such period of probation as aforesaid includes a military course, the man may be struck off the posted strength of his corps with effect from the first day of attachment to the other corps.