An Act to shorten the time of Active Service in the Army, and to amend in certain respects the Law of Enlistment (The Army Enlistment Act, 1870)
WHEREAS it is expedient to shorten the period of army service of soldiers enlisted to serve in Her Majesty's army, and to establish a reserve force which may be called into active service in time of emergency; and also to amend in certain respects the law of enlistment in Her Majesty's army: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the ...