Clause 4

Subject to the provisions of this Act it shall be lawful for the President to make orders with respect to the government, discipline, pay, allowances, gratuities and pensions of the Army, and with respect to all other matters and things relating to the Army, including any matter by this Act authorised to be prescribed or expressed to be subject to orders or regulations.

The said orders may provide for the formation of men of the Army into separate units and for the formation of such units into corps, regiments, services, other like bodies or divisions, and for appointing, transferring or attaching men of the Army to units, and for posting, attaching and otherwise dealing with such men within the units, and may regulate the appointment, rank, duties and numbers of the officers and non-commissioned officers of the Army.

Every corps, regiment, service, other body or division constituted and established under any order made under the provisions of subsection (2) shall bear, and be known by, such name or title as the President may in such order direct, and any reference in any written law to such name or title shall be deemed to be a reference to such corps, regiment, service, other body or division, or as the context may require, to the officers and soldiers thereof.

The President may by order published in the Gazette, disband any corps, regiment, service, other body or division constituted under subsection (2) and may amalgamate any such corps, regiment, service, other body or division and alter the name or title thereof.

The President may continue under this Act any corps or unit which previously existed under the Military Forces Ordinance, 1952 (Malaysian Ord. 47 of 1952), of Malaysia:Provided that any corps or unit so continued shall for the purposes of this Act be deemed to be a corps or unit constituted and established under the provisions of subsection (2).

Subject to the provisions of any such order, the Army Board constituted under section 5 may make general or special regulations with respect to any matter with respect to which the President may make orders under this section.

Any orders and general regulations made under this section shall be presented to Parliament as soon as may be after they are made.