Malaysia legislation
Section 25
Section 25
(1)
Subject to any regulations made under this Part a person in full-time service may, on written application made by him to the competent authority and with the consent of that authority, be permitted to do any of the following things, that is to say:
(a)
if his enlistment was for a term ending before the expiration of a period of twelve years beginning with the date of his attestation or, if he was enlisted before he attained the age of eighteen years, the date on which he attained that age, to extend the term of his enlistment so as to end at such time, not later than the expiration of the said period as may be specified in the application, and so as to increase the period
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of his full-time service, his service in the reserve, or both as may be specified;
(b)
if the term of his enlistment, or that term as extended under the last foregoing paragraph, includes a period of service in the reserve, to increase the period of his full-time service, accordingly as may be specified in the application, so as to extend to the whole or to a specified part of that period;
(c)
to be transferred to the reserve to serve therein for the residue of the term of his enlistment, or if that term has been extended under paragraph (b), for the remainder of that term as so extended;
(d)
to reduce the term of his enlistment.
(2)
A person in consideration of his being permitted to undergo a prescribed course of instruction or a course of instruction of a prescribed class or of the conferring on him of such other benefit or advantage as may be prescribed, may be required by the competent authority to undertake, in the prescribed form, not to determine his full-time service before the expiration of such period beginning with the day on which that course of instruction ends as may be prescribed or, before the expiration of such period as may be prescribed in relation to that other benefit or advantage.
(3)
A person in the reserve by virtue of the terms of his enlistment or of subsection (1) may, on written application to the competent authority, at any time re-enter upon full-time service, and accordingly as may be specified in the application, either—
(a)
serve in full-time service for the remainder of the period for which he would have been liable to serve in the reserve if he had not re-entered upon full-time service; or
(b)
serve in full-time service for a specified part of that remainder and thereafter serve in the reserve for the residue thereof.
Armed Forces 37
Extension of service of servicemen enlisting on or after the appointed date