Military Service and Conscription Act of 1867

REJECTED by the Grand Senate in the year 1867, 6 AYE, 6 NAY, 3 WITHHELD

An act by the Grand Senate of the United Kingdom of Thegye to limit terms of conscription and impressment and alter the criteria for service in the armed forces.

SECTION ONE
Henceforth, unlimited conscription and impressment shall be prohibited within the territory of the United Kingdom of Thegye, or by the government thereof of expatriates or colonial subjects.
 * 1.1 All conscription or impressment orders must carry an expiry, which shall be no longer than two years in peacetime, or five years in wartime, excepting during a state of wartime emergency.
 * 1.2 A state of wartime emergency may only be declared during wartime by a majority decision of the Senate, with the assent of both Diarchs simultaneously, and may be ended by a majority decision of the Senate or by the agreement of both Diarchs.
 * 1.3 All unlimited conscription or impressment orders currently in effect, or in effect at the end of a state of wartime emergency, shall assume an expiry period of two years thereafter, or of five years thereafter in the event that a state of wartime emergency ends while the realm remains at war.
 * 1.4 No person who has served in the military shall be eligible to receive a conscription or impressment order until a minimum of five years have passed since the end of their service, excepting during a state of wartime emergency.

SECTION TWO
The criteria for eligibility to serve in the armed forces and to receive conscription orders shall be altered as to better serve the needs of our Kingdom and promote its general security.
 * 2.1 No person shall be prohibited from serving in the armed forces or from receiving conscription or impressment orders on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, race, sex, or gender.
 * 2.2 The minimum age to be eligible to enlist in the armed forces or to receive a conscription or impressment order shall be raised from twelve to sixteen.
 * 2.3 The maximum age to be eligible to receive a conscription or impressment order shall be lowered from sixty to fifty, excepting during a state of wartime emergency.

SECTION THREE
The use of conscription and impressment shall be phased out, and a limit shall be placed on the number of conscription and impressment orders which may be issued during this process.
 * 3.1 The Army shall not issue more conscription orders in each year of peacetime than one-hundred and fiffy thousand, nor shall the Army issue conscription orders which would bring the Army over a size of six-hundred thousand enlisted personnel in peacetime. In each year, the limit on conscription orders which may be issued shall be reduced by thirty thousand. Once the limit is reduced to zero, the practice of conscription shall be ended altogether, and the Army shall be expected to be maintained as a voluntary force. If before this time, the Kingdom enters a state of wartime emergency, these reductions shall be temporarily paused, but shall then resume once this state ends.
 * 3.2 The Navy shall not issue more impressment orders in each year of peacetime than twenty thousand, nor shall the Navy issue impressment orders which would bring the Navy over a size of one-hundred thousand enlisted personnel in peacetime. In each year, the limit on impressment orders which may be issued shall be reduced by four thousand. Once the limit is reduced to zero, the practice of impressment shall be ended altogether, and the Navy shall be expected to be maintained as a voluntary force. If before this time, the Kingdom enters a state of wartime emergency, these reductions shall be temporarily paused, but shall then resume once this state ends.

Presented by Belgaer Rana, Senator for Ancelstierre, RRP