[Rev. 2012] Kenya Defence Forces Kenya Defence Forces CAP. 199 (3) If a person has received pay as a service member without having previously made the prescribed declaration upon attestation the person— (a) shall be a service member until discharged; and (b) may claim to be discharged at any time within three months after the first day in respect of which the person has received pay. (4) Nothing in this section shall prejudice the determination of any question as to the term for which a person enlisted or prevent the discharge of a person who has not claimed a discharge. PART XVI – THE RESERVES 259. Transfer to reserve (1) Every officer and every service member who is liable to be transferred to the regular reserve shall until transferred remain subject to this Act. (2) When an officer or a service member who becomes eligible to be transferred to the regular reserve is serving outside Kenya, the person shall be returned to Kenya free of cost immediately, and shall be transferred to the regular reserve on arrival or, within six months after arrival if the person consents to the transfer being delayed. (3) A service member who is transferred to the regular reserve in Kenya shall be entitled to be conveyed free of cost to the place stated in the attestation paper to be the place of attestation, or to any place in Kenya at which the person intends to reside and to which the person can be conveyed at no greater cost. 260. Volunteer reserve (1) If the Defence Council decides in pursuant to this Act that there shall be a volunteer reserve, it shall consist of such officers and service members as the Defence Council determines. (2) Commissions in the volunteer reserve shall be granted and may be terminated as is provided for by sections 249 and 251 of this Act in relation to the regular force. (3) A person may be enlisted into the volunteer reserve, and when enlisted shall serve in the volunteer reserve, in the same manner as is provided for the regular forces under this Act, and those sections shall apply with necessary changes in relation to enlistment and service members enlisted into the volunteer reserve as they apply to enlistment and service members enlisted into the regular forces. 261. Calling out reservists for annual training (1) A reservist may be called out for training for a period not exceeding, or for periods not exceeding in the aggregate, twenty eight days in any one year. (2) During any training the reservist may be posted or attached to and trained with any unit of the Defence Forces. K7-115 [Issue 1]