Board Thread:Parliament/@comment-10059141-20200727123334

ACT of PARLIAMENT: REGULATION of the ARMED FORCES ACT of 1753 & REPEAL of the 1752 NAVY ACT

Colloquially known henceforth as the “1753 Navy Act”

23 JULY 1753

26 Geo. II c. 4

WESTMINSTER HALL

OFFICE of the PRIME MINISTER

An Act to review the current organizational methods used to manage the Royal Navy and Royal Army of the Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland, as well as all other essential military assets, and restructure these bodies into more effective and productive systems of management through a comprehensive __five point plan__.

__Article I: **The Royal Navy Discord**__

The entity currently known as the “TBE Royal Navy” shall be __archived__ by the British National Archives, also known as the Public Records Office, under the direct management of the Master of Rolls & overseen by the Office of the Prime Minister. Relevant re-organization will be carried out by the Public Records Office to ensure all relevant information on the “TBE Royal Navy” discord is preserved in a timeless and efficient manner.

__Article II: **Consolidation into TBE Discord**__ Any relevant information shall be then obtained via the British National Archives/Public Records Office, and then posted in its respective channels, as well as its respective government Wiki article(s), and these established medium shall be edited and updated by its appointed bureaucratic officials.

Those channels, which having been deemed as **relevant** by select committee members of HM Armed Forces, shall be reorganised into its own separate category on the TBE discord titled “HM Armed Forces” with the following channels:
 * HM Armed Forces** (category)
 * └**#hm-armed-forces** (General chat for all PvPers/SvSers)
 * └**#information** (Links to wiki, etc)
 * └ **#royalnavy** (SvS discussion)
 * └ **#royalmarines** (PvP discussion)
 * └ **#admiralty** (Naval leadership)
 * └**# war-office** (Marine/Army leadership)

This will ensure as to the most relevant and useful channels of communication between the Honourable & Gallant members of HM Armed Forces remains intact, in a fashion that ensures both A) The civilian oversight by Parliament of the Armed Forces and B) Outreach towards the British Citizen -ry for that new and able bodied recruits may be enlisted into the Armed Forces. __Article III: **Naval Reforms**__

Recognising the long-standing usefulness and effectiveness of **HM ROYAL NAVY** following the mass reforms brought under the leadership of former Secretary at War and First Lord of the Admiralty Lord Nathaniel Joseph Garland II (Sven Daggersteel), shall revert the traditional leadership of the Navy to a more cohesive and practical format.

Henceforth repealing the stipulation of the 1752 Navy Act by reverting the Board of Admiralty to its true format by re-titling the Naval Lords to their original offices of First Sea Lord, Second Sea Lord, Third Sea Lord, and Fourth Sea Lord. Further recognising the importance and efficiency of the offices of Comptroller and Treasurer of the Navy, and ensuring the continued presence of those officers on the BOARD of the ADMIRALTY composed of the First through Fourth Sea Lords, other Naval officers invited to sit on that committee, and headed by the First Lord of the Admiralty, the professional and political head of the Royal Navy.

__Article IV: **Restructuring the War Office**__

Recognising the importance of an able administration over HM Royal Marines, recognised as the elite naval infantry force of the Empire, shall revitalise the entity known as the War Office. In contrast to the Board of Admiralty, the War Office and it’s parent body the Board of Ordnance is composed of only two permanent offices, that of the Master-General of the Ordnance (a Cabinet-level position) and the Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance, who in turn acts as the Lieutenant Colonel of HM Royal Marine Corps Remaining seats within the War Office & Board of the Admiralty are filled by officers of HM Army on a temporal basis.

__Article V: **Promotion Limitations within HM Armed Forces**__

Due to the inefficiency and corruption that plagued the Armed Forces as a result of the Navy Act of 1752, this act shall further **repeal** the provisions from said act relating to the promotions and appointments of army and naval officers to senior rankings. All promotions beyond the ranks of Lieutenant in the Royal Marines/Royal Army and Master and Commander (Commander) in the Royal Navy must be approved by the Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in addition to the the enlisted personnel's respective government department (Office of the Admiralty and Marine Affairs for Navy and Royal Marines and War Office for Royal Army and Royal Marines).

Be it enacted by the House of Lords and House of Commons of the Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland in Parliament assembled.

'''Written by the Rt Hon Earl Grey, KG, KB, FRS, MP for Northumberland. Passed in Parliament by a vote of 13-1.''' 